Going to WIDC and listening to Maik speak you can see a person who’s spark of wonder was fed. His passion was clear as he spoke about the amazing feats of engineering and programming that allow for the printing and machining. I can’t wait to show that passion in my own classes when I start teaching, I did notice that passion can be a bit of a hinderance as well as you can start talking about what you know and leave everyone in the dust. I found this when I was teaching, there was a difference between what I knew and what I had to teach. You have to crawl before you can run and in education it’s the same idea. When I sat in a Kindergarten class I did find it boring but I did realize that those kids where in school for a month. That’s it 1 month of course they need to be taught how to sit and how to ask questions and wait their turn and so on. Even when I was teaching some of my students did not know where France was, like the whole country. They did not know because no one had shown them, One of the things you find is that when you have that wonder for a topic you seek out the information that interests you. I think the Spark program showed how just giving people the ability to explore their ideas is more important than trying to control what they discover.