More than 1,000 cheerleaders, plus a few hundred overheated mascots and spangled dancers, spent the week here at Spirit Camp, learning cutting-edge fight songs, triple-decker pyramids and the kind of eye-catching flourishes guaranteed to rally a stadium full of despondent sports fans.
I sold award-winning Rainbeau Ridge goat cheese at Stone Barn's Farmers Market, and on my days off, I volunteered in the Stone Barns propagation room to learn cutting-edge winter seeding techniques.
To date, thousands of visiting fellows and other foreign trainees have taken advantage of the expertise and facilities of the NIEHS to learn cutting-edge science, improve their knowledge and skills, and bring these abilities to bear on pressing environmental health problems around the world.
Those wishing to learn about cutting edge work can read the supplement on Compatibilism: The State of the Art.
"It's a combination of traditional learning and cutting edge techniques," she said.
It's such a fast moving industry, learning about today's cutting edge isn't much use if it's passé tomorrow, so honing your own critical faculties to distinguish if something new is genuinely useful or simply rehashing old ground will make you an effective employee in digital.
Difference-makers desire professional development and are attracted to opportunities that will keep them challenged, learning, and on the cutting edge of their expertise.
I am fortunate to work with the most skilled eye surgeons around the world and learning techniques which are cutting edge.
Curious about what autism really is? Fridik Thor Fridriksson's impressive A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism follows an anguished mother in her global search to meet top researchers in the field, so not only do we get insight into the disorder (the precise symptoms), we also learn the latest in cutting edge treatment.
The meeting brought together 70 early career scientists (35 from each country) over 3 days to present the latest advances in their fields, learn about research at the cutting edge of other disciplines, and explore new opportunities for international and multidisciplinary collaboration.
Couple that with learning how to 'code' and use cutting edge technology and low-income youth will have tremendous advantages in this new economy.
