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This blog is courtesy of the Arizona SciTech Festival.
Track: Festival & Event Planning
This session offers a conversation around how to engage community in S.T.E.A.M activities and generate excitement about how community members can play an active roll. Interactive, hands on community learning will be the focus.
Presenters
- El Mirage Public Safety Day – Jeffrey Anderson – janderson@cityofelmirage.org
- Glendale Science of Chocolate – Martin Dickey – MDickey@GLENDALEAZ.com
- Tale of Two Cities – Christina Underhill – cunderhill@avondale.org
- Farm Science Day – Steven Naranjo – Steve.Naranjo@ARS.USDA.GOV
- Southwest Maker Fest– Eric Ose – eric.ose@gmail.com
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Track: Festival & Event Planning
Hosted by Cyndi Coon of Laboratoy5 Inc. This meet up will be a fun gathering.
For: Anyone interested in sharing S.T.E.A.M event best practices, from idea generation to planning to implementation and community outreach. This is an opportunity to both share and learn.
Presenter
- Cyndi Coon, cyndi.coon@gmail.com
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Track: Festival & Event Planning
Social media in S.T.E.A.M is like every other messaging business. Social media is a party where you meet people and build relationships. Join the panelists in this session to learn more about creating and cultivating social relationships with your current and future audiences.
Presenters
- Connect2STEM – Allison Otu – allisonotu@email.arizona.edu
- Start the Spark – Erica Shumaker – erica.shumaker@west-mec.org
- Arizona Science Center Events – Kristin Priscella – priscellak@azscience.org
- Arizona Technology Council – Lauren Witte – lwitte@aztechcouncil.org
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Track: Festival & Event Planning
This session will offer insight into how to brand your program, project or event in a way that demonstrates a S.T.E.A.M focus through innovative ideas, wording and imagery. Your brand is YOU, the organization, and your projects can uniquely express that. Join us to learn how.
Presenters
- Flagstaff Festival of Science – Bonnie Stevens – bonnie.stevens@gmail.com
- Tempe Geek’s Night Out – Parrish Spisz – parrish_spisz@tempe.gov
- Spring Training Festival – Mike Phillips mphillips@scottsdaleaz.gov
- STEAMTastic – Loretta Mondragon – loretta.mondragon@paradisevalley.edu
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Track: STEM Instruction
Seen above: Airbeam sensor and a cell phone display of the Aircasting app (used in Kids Making Sense to collect air pollution data)
Kids Making Sense is a global environmental educational program that unites science, technology, engineering, and math education to empower youth to change the environment in their communities and to improve public health. Kids Making Sense teaches youth how to measure particle pollution using portable air quality sensors and how to interpret the data they collect.
Presenter
- Jenny Frank, Education Outreach Coordinator, Maricopa County Air Quality Department, JennyFrank@mail.maricopa.gov, (602) 506-6355
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Conference Session: “Mesa Arts Center Jewelry-Making Lecture-Demonstrations: Electroforming, Electro-Etching and Vitreous Enamel on Copper with Polly O’Dette”
Track: Art, Design Through STEM
See how electrical current can attach metal to metal and how molten enamel is fused onto a copper object.
Presenters
- Polly O’Dette
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Conference Session: “Mesa Arts Center Glass-Making Lecture-Demonstration: Hot Science with Seth Fairweather”
Track: Art, Design Through STEM
Watch and learn about how fiber optics are made, how hot glass conducts electricity, glass popcorn and Prince Rupert’s Drop.
Presenters
- Seth Fairweather
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Conference Session: “Fredi Lajvardi: Nationally Recognized STEM Educator & Subject of the Critically Acclaimed Documentary, Underwater Dreams, and Major Motion Picture, Spare Parts”
Track: STEM Instruction
FREDI LAJVARDI kindles your innate sense of ingenuity with his remarkable first-hand account of how he transformed a group of high school students into a national champion robotics team.
Fredi captivated the country when he led his team of disadvantaged teenagers in a university-level underwater robotics competition, where they defeated leading schools, including top-ranked MIT. Their story inspired the acclaimed documentary “Underwater Dreams” and was also adapted into the major motion picture, “Spare Parts,” starring actor and comedian George Lopez as Fredi. His award-winning Falcon Robotics team will be featured in the 2017 film “Dream Big.”
Honored with numerous awards for his spirited passion for teaching, Fredi continues to serve as a prominent advocate about the importance of STEM education nationwide.
With humor and compassion, Fredi brings audiences on his inspiring journey, illustrating the need to embrace diversity and invest in people to help others realize their potential. His incredible real life tale equips you with the real-life encouragement to maximize your own potential and to work together to solve complex problems.
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Track: STEM Careers & Business
Presenter:
- Craig Shames
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Back by popular demand, come see the amazing STEM talent showcased at our 4th annual Arizona’s Got STEM Talent show! We will have about 6-7 “acts” for the session. Each team will have 3-5 minutes to present their demo.
Presenters: TBA
Do you have a STEM talent that you can showcase in 3 minutes or less? If so, let us know. We are looking for 7 of Arizona’s top STEM Talent to showcase as part of our 3rd Annual Arizona’s Got STEM Talent session. Please email Jessica Hauer at Jessica.Hauer@asu.edu ASAP if you are interested.