I’m happy to announce that I just joined the board of the Boul­der Dig­i­tal Works (BDW).? At this time back in 2004, I was busy help­ing the Stan­ford d.school achieve lift off, so it’s really cool now to be part of another design edu­ca­tion startup.? And now the idea of a design cur­ricu­lum com­bin­ing busi­ness, tech­nol­ogy, and human issues is much more accepted in the main­stream, which to me makes the focused mis­sion of the BDW even more excit­ing. As John Maeda recently noted, the miss­ing part­ner to STEM (Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy, Engi­neer­ing, Math) is IDEA (Intu­ition, Design, Emo­tion, Art).? As a per­son who was trained on both sides and now works and plays across STEM and IDEA, I feel strongly that our edu­ca­tion pro­grams need to com­bine both in order to cre­ate the T-shaped peo­ple that can go out and make a dif­fer­ence in the world ( Prin­ci­ple 6 ). Finally, as a native of Boul­der, BDW gives me another excuse to get back to the place where I came to love and admire the fine art of dri­ving in the snow .? Can’t wait.? Hope the board meet­ings are in February!