In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

In this video, Allegra the ant teaches us about the importance of cooperation and working together as a team to achieve common goals. Through examples of how ants collaborate in their colonies, we learn that every job is important and...

Managers need to get the best from their teams. They need to win cooperation, resolve conflict, and communicate ideas. These lie in the Emotional Intelligence domain of Social Skills.



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Challenge your group with these great teamwork activities using the Challenge Tarps. These games are perfect for building cooperation, team building and problem solving skills. Purposeful fun with great outcomes and debriefing sessions.

This video emphasizes the importance of teamwork in achieving common goals, using examples from various contexts such as music bands, animal colonies, and sports teams. It highlights how individuals contribute their unique skills and...

In this video, the speaker discusses strategies for dealing with difficult people by building bridges and establishing rapport. They emphasize the importance of finding areas of cooperation and common ground, as well as mirroring the...

The President’s Cabinet is made up of the most important people in the Executive Branch of government. But who are they and what are their roles?

It sounds ridiculous, but it's true. At the Cooper Union building in New York, there's the world's first elevator shaft: constructed four years before the safety elevator was invented. • Thanks to Prof. O'Donnell and all the Cooper Union...

With what3words, Chris Sheldrick and his team have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares and assigned each a unique, three-word identifier, like famous.splice.writers or blocks.evenly.breed, giving a precise address to the...

There's no shortage of ideas about how to use nanotechnology, but one of the major hurdles is how to manufacture some of the new products on a large scale. With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), UMass Amherst chemical...

Jerry Blumengarten taught for 32 years in the New York City school system.  Even though he was a licensed Social Studies teacher, he taught most subjects (Language Arts, Science, Math, Computers…) for grades 6-9. He wrote curriculum for...

In her NSF-supported research, Julie Shah and her team at MIT use Robotina to learn how to build better robotic cooperative assistants, as envisioned by the National Robotics Initiative, an multi-agency effort to advance fundamental...