Implementing a STEM-focused curriculum as early as elementary school allows educators to spark an interest in these subjects at an impressionable age and to encourage that interest to grow throughout high school and beyond.

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After spending his first five years in Paris, the young Christophe moved with his mother, who worked as an archivist, to Dakar, Senegal, where she had taken a job in a library. (His parents' marriage ended in divorce.) They stayed for three years before returning to Paris a long time for a child at an impressionable age and the influence is still apparent in his perennial references to African and Asian clothes.

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