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Achieving Dreams Through Dirt Bikes

Open Society Institute - Baltimore

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.

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