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  • Another Fantastic Bill Strickland Talk

    Posted on November 18, 2009

    Enjoy.

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  • Progeny Visits Bill Strickland

    Posted on November 16, 2009

    Next week we are headed to Pittsburgh to visit Bill Strickland and the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. Part of Bill’s philosophy is to build amazing environments to program kids for success. After a 6.5 million dollar capital campaign he opened a 62,000 square foot arts and career training center. It includes a world class ceramics studio, [...]

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  • Nutrition Made Easy

    Posted on November 12, 2009

    Nutrition has become so complex that it’s hard to get a handle on it. There’s too much conflicting information.
    Here’s an easy rule. Imagine that you own a million dollar race horse. Would you feed it Doritos and Coke?
    The next time you cram something questionable down your face ask yourself if you would feed it to [...]

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  • Progeny Kids are Human Calculators

    Posted on November 11, 2009

    How many of you can quickly multiply 4 digit numbers in your head?
    We had an interesting idea at the tutoring meeting last night.
    We think all Progeny kids should be able to do complex math in their heads. This is a very teachable system that is targeted at kids. Take a look at the video below.
    We [...]

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  • 2009 Progeny Foundation Banquet

    Posted on November 5, 2009

    The light was shining in the darkness last night. What a great night.
    After a year of hard work it was great to kick back and enjoy some laughs with the Progeny family.
    Thank you to everybody that made this event special.
    A special thank you to  CJ McClanahan for showing us that we are in the belief [...]

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  • Sam Cooper Shows You How To Fly

    Posted on October 30, 2009

    At the first Progeny basketball tryout Sam Cooper was the first kid to walk in the gym. After we got his name we looked though our notes and sure enough we had seen his high school team play. We had a scribble next to his name on the program.

    “Hustler… Dove all over the floor”
    He [...]

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  • Stealing Hoosiers

    Posted on October 28, 2009

    “Good artists copy, great artists steal”. -Picasso
    We are now working with the construction planners and architects to design what the Progeny Center will look like (you will be able to see the floor plans and elevations at the team banquet on November 4). Since we want the facility to be a work of art…part of [...]

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  • Happiness

    Posted on October 24, 2009

    We’re always chasing after so many things. We forget that no external thing or accomplishment can make us happy (yes even the NBA). That’s not how it works.
    Here’s David Vaughn’s story. He was one of the top prep players in the class of 1991. He made it to the top and crashed. He’s a happier [...]

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  • Maybe

    Posted on October 5, 2009

    This video makes us ask again…is your goal to become a pretty good student / person / player … or do you want to be the absolute best you can be?

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  • Building Better Families

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    Matthew Kelly, internationally acclaimed speaker and New York Time bestselling author, receives over 1000 invitations from schools, universities, churches and fortune 500 companies to speak. Over the past decade, Kelly has spoken to more than 3 million people in 50 countries. Kelly shares the way to the life of happiness that we are all called [...]

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