CNYTEEA: NYSTEEA Spring Conference Presentations

Monday, April 9, 2012

NYSTEEA Spring Conference Presentations - It's on NEXT WEEK!

2012 NYSTEEA Conference

Sheraton Syracuse University April 18th, 19th, 20th

Wednesday Presentations:

Jason Web– Adobe After Effects: Demonstration of different uses of Adobe After Effects for text or video effects

Thursday Presentations:

David Hardy/ Curtis Helt– Principles of Engineering and STEM

Mike Fry– Engineering by Design Comes to NY

Mark Leonard– Laser Technology in the MS/HS Fab Lab: This seminar will introduce laser cutting/ engraving technol-

ogy as one format for student applications in a STEM based curriculum.

Karin Dykeman/ Todd Dischinger- Teaching elements and principles of design through product and graphic design:

Incorporate the elements and principles of design in your curriculum! Intrinsic to the design process, these concepts and

activities are tailored for teachers of DDP, but applicable to other courses. Walk away with ideas to use next week!

Richard Bush/ Dan Tryon/ Mark Hardy– Technology Education at SUNY Oswego New Program– New Facilities:

SUNY Oswego is undergoing significant updates with their facilities and teacher preparation program. Undergraduate

program updates, new course offerings, and new facilities will be presented that address current need for technology and

engineering educators. Promotional materials will be provided to participants.

Dave Buckley/ Gerry O’Connor– HP in STEM Education: The HP presentation will discuss how high performance

computing can enhance a student’s STEM experience.

Steven Giglio-Successful Pre-Engineering Projects R/C Heli-Missile Launcher: Short HOD of a Pre Engineering project

Robert Tufte: Don’t be overwhelmed trying to integrate Common Core: Introductory presentation on how to integrate

common core standards into your technology education lessons.

Craig Clark/ Kent Johnson– Zero Energy Home and Alternative Fuels Program: The presentation will highlight the zero

energy home that was built by students and has geothermal, solar thermal, solar electric and small wind all integrated

into a Gold Green NAHB Home. Our alternative fules program will explain all the current hybrid operations and our

Green Grand Prix winner at 89.6 MPG

Thomas Kubicki– Embedding Common Core Standards in Secondary Technology Curriculums: Presentation will focus

on how to identify the Common Core Standards that can be linked to the Technology Education Curriculums and

strategies to include them in the classroom activities, how to assess them and how to document them for administrative

review.

Chuck Goodwin– Time to Articulate and Build a Sequence: The times are a changing and technology education pro-

grams now need to set up articulation agreements with regional community colleges and assemble your high school

courses into a program of study sequence.

Thursday Presentations:

Graham Baughman– Cloud-Based Virtual Modeling: WhiteBox Learning is a complete standards-based STEM learning

system. The worlds only truly “Clou”-based 3D virtual modeling STEM learning system. Flight 2.0, Structures 2.0,

Green Car 2.0, Rockets 2.0, and Dragster 2..0 allow students to simulate their designs and compete virtually 24/7 all

around the world.

Alta Jo Longware– Geometry and Packaging Design: Teaching cardboard packaging design is an inexpensive way to inte-

grate the Common Core for Math standards into DDP or the WoT curriculum. This workshop will provide participants

with hands-on experience in developing nets for common geometric shapes. The knowledge will be used to design an

insert fusing only oak tag, that will hold and protect a raw egg drop challenge. Participants will receive an electronic copy

of all lesson plans and resource material.

Michael Hacker– A Research Study to Identify Overarching Themes and Instructional Contexts in Secondary Engineer-

ing and Technology Education: This research study, Concepts and Context in Engineering and Technology Education

(CCETE) was an international effort to define the most salient themes (or big ideas) that cut across domains and thus

give insight into the holistic nature of engineering and technology. The study was conducted jointly by researchers from

Hofstra University (NY) and Delfty University (in the Netherlands).

Lawrence Kassan– Rod Sterling Video Festival: This session will showcase award winning K-12 student videos from

across NYS, a discussion on the creative process, and festival information. Educators will learn how to team with the

Rod Sterling Video Festival to initiate or compliment any video programs at your school.

Steve Hughes– Build and Program a LEGO NXT Robot: BRING YOUR LAPTOP to this session to program the NXT

robot you will build. We will load the MINDSTORMS software on your laptop; you can keep the copy. This is an ex-

tended session limited to 24 participants WITH LAPTOPS. Laptops ARE required. (Offered again Friday)

Friday Presentations

Jason Wanek-Maximize your Interactive Whiteboard.: Your students want to use the SMART board or whichever IWB

you have in your classroom. Learn easy ways to create opportunities for your students to be actively engaged with the

content you provide. We will be using a SMART Board during this session, but many concepts will transcend the brand.

Jon Santiago– One 3D Printer per Child: MakerBots are low-cost 3-D Printers that allow people to physically make their

own digital creations. MakerBot Industries believes that our tools can help “re-make” education by creating more ways to

teach STEM in engaging, hands-on ways. Participants will be taught the basics of 3-D modeling for the MakerBot, using

the free, web-based TinkerCad software to design their own buttons.

Gwendolyn Maturo– Grasson– School Pad: “Touch it 2” The electronic playgrounds of our media-centric-digital-native

students, become the virtual desk space where students work in collaboration to complete presentation or competition

ready STEM commong Core based assignments connecting their classroom to the digital world and increasing HW re-

turn rates!