August 2-5, 2016
SCHEDULE
General Schedule
Select Sessions:
Tuesday, Aug. 2nd
7:30 am: Doors Open
9:00 am - 4:00 pm: General Sessions
Wednesday, Aug. 3rd
7:30 am: Doors Open
9:00 am - 4:00 pm: General Sessions
5:30 - 8:30: Bob Bullock Event (Details forthcoming)
Thursday, Aug. 4th
7:30 am: Doors Open
9:00 am - 11:45 am: General Sessions
Noon - 4:00 pm: Reflection and Planning Time (Lunch provided)
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm: NASA Presentation and The Martian at South Lamar Alamo Draftouse
Friday, Aug. 5th
7:30 am: Doors Open
All Day: Field Trips and Day-long Sessions (See Conference Schedule for Specific Times)
Preregistration Required
Air Quality in Austin - STEM Teacher Development for Seconary School Teachers
Austin Zoo: A Living Classroom
Building Your Own Telescope Made Easy
EcoRise Advanced, Elementary and Secondary
Field Trip to the Microsoft Store
Introduction to EcoRise and Sustainable Inteliigence, K-12
Lunch-and-Learn with Edusmart: Using Edusmart to Plan and Engage STEM Learning
Lunch-and-Learn with HMH: Elementary Hands On STEM activity using ScienceFusion and GoMath resources- It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!
Mars: Sci-Fi and Sci-Facts at the Alamo Drafthouse
National Wildlife Federation Eco-Schools Dashboard and 7 Stpes
Computer Science - Coding 101
Sessions requiring preregistration are highlighted in red on the schedule. Please see session description for details on how to preregister.
FEATURED PRESENTERS
Dr. Gary
Morris
Dean of Natural Sciences and Physics Professor at St. Edward's University. Dr. Morris has been a National Research Council post-doctoral student at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and a Fulbright Scholar in Japan, looking at the influence of Chinese pollution on air quality in Japan before, during, and after the Beijing Olympics.
Shraddha
Chaplot
Shraddha Chaplot is a Greengineer and Machinegineer at Cisco (fun titles she created herself). She is a huge enthusiast of being your authentic self, combining her love for engineering, STEAM, hands–on projects, and wacky ideas to inspire and empower anyone and everyone She graduated from University of California, San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and depth in Machine Intelligence.
Dr. Blake Bextine is Professor of Biology and Assistant Vice President for Research and Technology Transfer at the University of Texas at Tyler. Prior to his arrival at UT Tyler, Dr. Bextine was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside. He holds a Ph.D. from Oklahoma State University, M.S. in Entomology from Texas Tech University, and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Northern Iowa.
Dr. Blake
Bextine
Cindy Moss, Ph.D is the Senior Director of Global STEM for Discovery Educaerication. Dr. Moss taught high school Biology, Chemistry and Anatomy for 15 years in Syracuse NY and 5 years in Charlotte NC. Dr. Moss served as the PreK-12 Director of STEM for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools for 10. As a teacher she won the Milken National Educator Award (often considered the Oscars of Teaching)and was honored by STEM Connector as 1 of the top
100 Women Leaders in STEM in 2012. She recently
was honored as 1 of 100 leading women in
diversity in STEM by Diversity Matters and
recently named 1 of the top 25 Women
in Business by the Charlotte
Business Journal.
Dr. Moss will present at the
Bullock Museum STEM Fair
Dr. Cindy
Moss
Session(s):
New Resources at St. Edward’s University
for STEM Educators [view]
Air Quality in Austin [view]
