Exploring STEM at 2015 SARSEF Future Innovators Night

I had been waiting a while to catch this moment and SARSEF‘s 2015 Future Innovators Night was my chance. This child was checking out the Mad Science Tucson display at the event, and I just happened to be walking past. In fact, the resident mad scientist running the display was about to pack up his equipment…

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Startup STEM Camps for Middle and High School Students

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As new technologies transform the world around us faster than ever, entrepreneurship is becoming an essential skill for the 21st Century. Startup Tucson’s Startup STEM Camp will introduce attendees to cutting edge technology and teach entrepreneurial skills to solve problems, improve the world, and start businesses. This week-long camp will feature technology demonstrations and guest…

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TechDivas and DigiDudes Technology Summer Camps

Flyer for UA Eller College of Management 2015 Tech Summer Camps, TechDivas DigiDudes

Four weeks of summer camps, with a different tech focus each week! Camp 1   June 1–June 5  DigiTech Marketing Agency (digital marketing) Camp 2  June 8–June 12  HelloWorld! Software Co. (software development) Camp 3  June 15–June 19  Cyber Art Co. (2D and 3D graphics) Camp 4  June 22–June 26  Not A Robot Inc. (21st Century…

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Talking STEM with the Mayor

This afternoon, I had the privilege of joining DaNel Hogan, director of The STEMAZing Project, for her meeting with Tucson’s Mayor Jonathan Rothschild. DaNel presented him with a quick outline of this summer’s STEMAZing Institute, three days of superlative professional development for Southern Arizona’s K–12 teachers. Teachers will choose from seven strands: Dark Skies: From Light…

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2015 SARSEF Cox Future Innovators Night

I had the pleasure of attending SARSEF‘s 2015 Cox Future Innovators Night on March 11 at the Tucson Convention Center. What a blast! More than 75,000 STEM research projects were entered in Southern Arizona science fairs this school year, and 1,903 of them were selected to compete at SARSEF. The TCC exhibition hall was lined with…

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From STEM to STEAM

My big idea for the day is to rename this endeavor from Debbie Does STEM to Debbie Does STEAM. The thinking behind it is that it will have a longer life, that there is already momentum building to incorporate the creative aspect of art, music, writing, into the STEM universe–I don’t want to end up with…

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Tucson’s 2015 Arizona SciTech Festival events

The Arizona SciTech Festival‘s 2015 kickoff is January 31, with a fantastic downtown Phoenix event, Connect2STEM. But what if you’re in Baja Arizona? What’s happening when? Give us our STEM! The Arizona SciTech Festival website offers a sortable events calendar–if you’re looking for Tucson-area events, select Pima County and/or Southern Arizona as filters. Here is…

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Connect2STEM kicks off the Arizona SciTech Festival during Super Bowl Weekend

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My most recent guest blog post for the Arizona SciTech Festival is about Connect2STEM, the Festival’s 2015 kickoff event that happens Saturday, January 31 from 10:00 a.m to 4:00 p.m. in downtown Phoenix. To write it, I talked with Allison Otu, Director of Outreach and Communications at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix. Her excitement and…

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