PAST Foundation
Mary Schneider is an experienced educator and coordinator, currently serving as the School Design Coordinator at PAST Foundation since August 2019. Prior to this role, Mary worked as an Instructor at South Dakota State University from June 2016 to July 2019 and as a STEM Educator at the South Dakota Innovation Lab from June 2015 to April 2016, where a model for rural education was developed to support STEM professional development. Mary’s educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in English from South Dakota State University and a Master of Arts in STEM Education from Dakota Wesleyan University, complemented by nearly two decades of experience as an educator at Armour High School from August 1996 to May 2015.
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PAST Foundation
We are a non-profit organization that is dedicated to making education better by promoting trans-disciplinary, problem-based STEM learning. The challenge, though, is that “better” is different for everyone. We see this challenge as an opportunity. PAST approaches educational improvement from an anthropological perspective. PAST brings a uniquely powerful tool to system design: anthropology. Collectively, PAST anthropologists have over a hundred years of experience studying the complex structure of societies and their interactions, and use this expertise to understand clients’ needs. In other words, we get you. The combination of anthropology and STEM is a powerful one. PAST has guided entire feeder systems in their transitions to STEM learning to see remarkable improvement in a few short years. PAST has helped educational organizations streamline their processes to reach more students with fewer resources. PAST has partnered with community organizations around the country to reach thousands of students with the concepts of problem-based, trans-disciplinary learning.