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You’re invited to join us Monday, August 19 to Wednesday, August 21 for the 2024 STEM Summit at the Wenatchee Convention Center! The STEM Summit provides professional learning opportunities for teachers and educational staff members in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics taught by experts and specialists in their fields.

Registration is now open in pdEnroller and here in SCHED. Sessions are being added daily until the summit starts in August.

August 19, 2024 - Dr. Jennifer Bay-Williams
August 20, 2024 - Dr. Catlin Tucker
August 21, 2024 - Dr. Jenée Myers Twitchell

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Equity-Oriented Engineering
Wednesday August 21, 2024 1:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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In this session, participants will explore elementary engineering activities created using design principles for equity. Their challenge is to design a hand pollinator to move pollen from one flower to another. Participants will first learn about declining populations of bees and the cascading impacts of this problem in a societal context. They will then make connections between the features of natural pollinators and the properties of various materials, using this knowledge to engineer their own pollinators for pumpkin flowers. After experiencing the activities, participants will reflect on how they engaged in engineering practices, such as applying science knowledge to problem solving. They will also examine the curricular resources with a focus on the embedded asset-based pedagogies. Participants will compare these examples with how the equity-oriented framework manifests in other grade levels, from preschool to middle school.
Presenters
avatar for Chantal Balesdent

Chantal Balesdent

Director, Operations Strategy & Program Management, Youth Engineering Solutions (Museum of Science, Boston)
Wednesday August 21, 2024 1:00pm - 3:30pm PDT
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  Engineering, K-8

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