NEAL BASCOMB has published a number of international and national bestsellers, including Higher, The Perfect Mile, Red Mutiny and Hunting Eichmann. His books have been optioned for film, featured in several documentaries and translated in 10 languages. He has also written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. He and his wife and their two daughters make their home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Gripping...Bascomb shows the reader every angle of a classroom no
larger than the average storage space, bursting with tensions,
emotions, and unparalleled enthusiasm...The New Cool is a tale of
triumph both in and outside of the classroom...it gives me hope for
the future of education."
--Erin Gruwell, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Freedom
Writer's Diary "Imagination, ambition and technology collide at an
annual high-school robot-building competition...A nail-biting
thrill ride for techies and armchair engineers."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Gripping...Bascomb gives us plenty of suspense and pathos...An
inspiring homage to the spirit of invention and a genuine sports
epic, to boot."
--Publishers Weekly "Outstanding...THE NEW COOL is a book that will
make you feel good about America's ability to innovate solutions to
its most pervasive problems. If you're sick of hearing about our
impending doom, read this, and meet a generation of kids who could
change not just the nation but the world. THE NEW COOL is, on its
simplest level, the story of a robotics competition -- but once you
realize the immensity of what's at stake, you'll be as nervously
anticipatory as the competitors themselves. Neal Bascomb has penned
an indelible portrait of a team on a mission that may ultimately be
reckoned one of the defining books of the decade." --Dean Kamen,
Founder of FIRST, Inventor of the Segway PT, Member of the National
Inventors Hall of Fame, and Winner of the National Medal of
Technology, the Lemelson-M.I.T. Prize and the Global Humanitarian
Action Award "THE NEW COOL is a prodigious true story and I loved
it! It is heartening to know that there are still dedicated
teachers like my Miss Riley and kids like my Rocket Boys who take
up the challenge of science beneath the American sky. THE NEW COOL
is fast-paced, absorbing, and suspenseful. I thoroughly enjoyed
getting to know teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer and his hard-working
students. Even though their chosen field is robotics, they are all
true Rocket Boys and Rocket Girls!" --Homer H. Hickam, Jr., author
of the #1 New York Times bestseller ROCKET BOYS
"While THE NEW COOL takes the reader inside a season, limns a team
and coaching staff, and masterfully recounts a gripping
competition, this is anything but your conventional sports book.
And not simply because the 'big game' is...a curious robotics
contest. Like the kids he vividly captures, Neal Bascomb has
himself performed a masterful bit of engineering here." --L. Jon
Wertheim, senior writer, Sports Illustrated "Illuminating in its
portrait of how the next generation will do its
problem-solving...If a space alien passing through the solar system
stopped at a bookstore for some reading material before the next
jump to hyperdrive, what he'd buy would be THE NEW COOL by Neal
Bascomb." --Gregg Easterbrook, author of SONIC BOOM and THE
PROGRESS PARADOX
"THE NEW COOL is a sparkling and moving account of a hidden
subculture in American society. In an age in which people wring
their hands in despair about the dumbing down of popular culture,
comes this tale of high-stakes competition, inspiring leaders, and
ultimately, hope, provided by young people who work to achieve the
impossible. Neal Bascomb distills a scientific quest into an
adventure that reads with all the thrill, passion, and human drama
behind a storied run for the Super Bowl." --Neil Shubin, Provost,
Field Museum of Natural History; Professor, University of Chicago;
and author of YOUR INNER FISH: A JOURNEY INTO THE 3.5-BILLION-YEAR
HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY
"I love this book. Neal Bascomb cuts through the arcane technical
jargon of robotics to reveal an amazing world of smart
high-schoolers with passions for math, science, engineering, and
computers. The teacher who inspires them also inspires us. With
kids like these, there is hope for the world after all." --Charles
Petzold, author of CODE "Thoroughly enjoyable! THE NEW COOL is not
just a fascinating - and dare I say, really cool -- story, it also
provides an important lesson. If America is ever going to fix its
broken education system and re-energize the economy, we're going to
need more schools, teachers, and kids like those in this book."
--P.W. Singer, author of WIRED FOR WAR: THE ROBOTICS REVOLUTION AND
CONFLICT IN THE 21ST CENTURY "THE NEW COOL masterfully involves the
reader in the thrills and the agonies experienced by high-school
students building a robot for a national competition. Neal Bascomb
not only tells their totally engaging story but also captures the
essence of what it means to be immersed in a real-life engineering
project, complete with its conflicting constraints, limited
budgets, and imminent deadlines." --Henry Petroski, author of THE
ESSENTIAL ENGINEER: WHY SCIENCE ALONE WILL NOT SOLVE OUR GLOBAL
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