The importance of tech education for kids (The 3:59 extended edition)

picture-103509-6821002baec0f69d9f4b912c002f50ee — Marc Lesser, senior director at Mouse.

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For our big 359th episode of The 3:59, we invited on Marc Lesser, a senior director at the youth development nonprofit Mouse and a fellow podcaster.

For this extended weekend edition of the podcast, you can hear us talk about expanding opportunities for science and technology education, virtual reality and wearable tech. Also, if you’d like to donate to Mouse, click here.

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2	Trump’s tariffs killed his TikTok deal	🔴 72 / 100
3	AI data scrapers are an existential threat to Wikipedia	🔴 65 / 100
4	Space companies swept up in far-reaching trade war	🔴 65 / 100
5	Former Washington archbishop Theodore McCarrick, defrocked over abuse allegations, dies aged 94	🔵 55 / 100
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7	NASA's Perseverance rover watches as 2 Mars dust devils merge into 1 (video)	🔵 45 / 100
8	Alexander Ovechkin ties Wayne Gretzky for most goals in NHL history	🔵 45 / 100
9	Hailey Bieber Is Giving Herself a Year Before Making This "Big" Choice	🔵 35 / 100
10	Alex Ovechkin ties Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record with 894th goal	🔵 35 / 100

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