Ryan Sajdak

Counting Trees on Our Adirondack Property Using LiDAR, Aerial Imagery, and AI It started with a pretty simple question: How many trees are actually on our Adirondack property?

Some of my favorite places have no cell signal at all.

I guess it’s official: next year, I’ll be a Centaur.

I always assumed that if I left McKinley, it would be because I chose to.

I’ll start with a confession: I’m a science nerd.

I’ll start with honesty.

I recently read an opinion piece in PNAS that introduced a term I haven’t been able to shake: machinal bypass.

Chronic absenteeism is closely tied to poverty — that much is well established.

When we talk about attendance in schools, the conversation usually goes to student motivation, family involvement, or whether students feel connected to their classes.

Across the country, educators are talking about an “attendance crisis,” but the phrase does not fully capture what it feels like inside the classroom.