Santa Ana-based Mind Research Institute, a nonprofit that seeks to get schools to use its learning software to boost math and science education, honored the group’s key backers, educators and students last month at an awards dinner in Irvine. The event drew current and retired technology executives, who are among some of the biggest supporters of Mind Research. Among those honored were FileNet Corp. founder and Mind Research Chief Executive Ted Smith and wife Janice Smith and corporate supporter Cisco Systems Inc. Mind Research seeks to boost math and science education by providing schools with software that uses animated representations of math concepts to help kids develop “spatial-temporal reasoning,” or the ability to think in time and space. More than 70,000 students at 400 schools in 19 states use the software, which was developed by University of California, Irvine, physicist Gordon Shaw.
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Attendees, honoree: Carleen and Charles Haggerty, retired chief executive of Lake Forest-based disk drive maker Western Digital, Mind Research’s Smith |
