Achieving Dreams Through Dirt Bikes

By Sheilah Kast,

Published January 4, 2019 at 9:45 AM EST

How do you attract young people to care about pursuits like math and engineering? Brittany Young contends dirt bikes are the answer! Young is a 2018 Open Society Institute-Baltimore community fellow. Her project ‘B-360’ helps students learn skills they can apply in STEM fields -- science, technology, engineering and math -- through riding and maintaining bikes. She stresses meeting students where they are. For more information about B360, visit this link.

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Sheilah Kast

Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.

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Melissa Gerr

Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'

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