Aimee Sprung

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Aimee Sprung

Civic Engagement Manager, Microsoft

All I Ever Needed to Know about Civic Engagement I Learned From my Mom

I’ve been listening to a lot of Podcasts lately. I particularly like the podcasts about successful people where they share details about their lives that led to success or mastery in their field. I like Tim Ferriss, Spartan Up and just found Finding Mastery and am currently...

Aimee Sprung 05/15/2017

Urban Farming: From Microsoft to the Dinner Table

Boston isn’t known for farming and agriculture, but we are known for our strengths in Technology, Collaboration, Innovation and Education. With organizations like 1776 naming Boston one of the top cities to enable collaboration to capitalize on the shift to a digital economy...

Aimee Sprung 04/19/2017

5 things I learned at the NEC Talent Pipeline Event

A few weeks ago I was part of a terrific panel of speakers convened by the New England Council for a Talent Pipeline Forum. Jamie Merisotis of the Lumina Foundation delivered a keynote address highlighting his new book, America Needs Talent. Our panel w/ @Microsoft @IBM @...

Aimee Sprung 10/29/2015

Innercity Weightlifting – Kendall Square’s Newest Gym!

For the past few years, I have been involved with wonderful organization called Innercity Weightlifting (ICW). ICW works with Boston youth, who are at the greatest risk for violence, and teaches them to become personal trainers–getting them off the streets, into the...

Aimee Sprung 08/11/2015

Citizen Schools Honors Microsoft Employees for Their Service

Here at Microsoft, our team is all about civic engagement. But civic engagement becomes tricky. First of all, not everyone has the access and tools to be able to be engaged. And secondly, how do you teach something like civic engagement? That’s where our nonprofit partner ...

Aimee Sprung 06/23/2015

Recap: Code for Boston Ignite Talks on the National Day of Civic Hacking

On Saturday, Cathy Wissink and I attended a series of Ignite talks as part of the local National Day of Civic Hacking hosted by Code for Boston at the CIC. The talks were AWESOME. A few highlights include: Resilient Coder‘s Micah Martin talked about his own journey to...

Aimee Sprung 06/12/2015

Local Teachers, STEM Advocates Weigh in on New CS Standards In MA Schools

The state of Massachusetts, along with STEM education group MassCAN, an alliance of organizations advocating for computer science in schools, has recently developed voluntary Digital Literacy and Computer Science Standards for MA high schools. Microsoft was proud to...

Aimee Sprung 09/27/2016

Announcing the First Annual Retrospective for Youth CITIES

Through my role at Microsoft, I get to be a part of the amazing innovation ecosystem we have here in Boston. And Boston is not just a great place to innovate because I say so; 1776 recently ranked Boston #1 in their Innovation that Matters Report based on six key themes:...

Aimee Sprung 05/25/2016

MLK Day: Service & Education

In recent years, MLK Day has become a day of service, and as MLK Day approaches it always makes me consider the volunteer opportunities I my life. I am fortunate to be able to volunteer at my kids’ school and my synagogue’s religious school. I even coach my 7...

Aimee Sprung 01/15/2016

Generation Citizen Civics Day: Empowering Massachusetts’ Young Changemakers

Twice each year, Generation Citizen hosts Civics Day at the Massachusetts State House. Civics Day is an opportunity for all of the GC students to showcase their work from the semester, demonstrate how they learned to identify the root cause of a civic issue, establish a plan...

Aimee Sprung 01/07/2016

#HackWinter makes me excited for snow (almost)

I am loving the unseasonably warm and non-snowy weather we are experiencing in Boston this December. But we all know what is coming and Code for Boston is helping us gear up for the winter. Earlier this week, I served as a judge to CFB’s #HackWinter Demo Night, along...

Aimee Sprung 12/17/2015

Engaging Women & Underrepresented Minorities in STEM & Computer Science

My children are 7 & 10 and currently very into sports – mostly soccer, a little basketball and my husband is working hard to introduce golf too. But in between school, sports and other activities that keep them busy I am always trying to insert some STEM or...

Aimee Sprung 11/06/2015