This is something that will actually help you in life. Nobody has had this opportunity, and for us to have it, it’s just something like—it’s like a blessing. 
This is something that will actually help you in life. Nobody has had this opportunity, and for us to have it, it’s just something like—it’s like a blessing.
The CCC program and the Connecticut Student Innovation Exposition (CT Expo) involve dedicated stakeholders, including educators, administrators, students, parents, and business leaders from CT and the New England region. Our central tenet is designed to engender in students what David Perkins (noted authority on education, codirector of Harvard's Project Zero, and author of Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education) describes as a “threshold experience,” a STEM-based threshold experience to be more precise. A STEM threshold experience is therefore the gateway to a discipline and eases the entry into others as Howard Gardner points out in Five Minds for the Future. This central tenet, the threshold experience, is reinforced throughout the CCC program and CT Expo. This experience has the potential to encourage students to follow STEM pathways.