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Wednesday, November 15 • 12:45pm - 1:45pm
STEAM You Can Wear: Personalize Design Experiences with Coding and Electronics

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An LED, battery, and conductive thread can bring principles of electronics and engineering to learners of all ages. Interactive jewelry, bookmarks, and stuffed toys become a vehicle for making powerful ideas accessible to a diverse population of learners. Learn how to combine computer science with these “soft circuits” or “e-Textiles” to make singing stuffed animals, animated t-shirts, jackets with directional signals, or backpacks with burglar alarms with the addition of the Lilypad Arduino or Flora microcontroller. Design, STEM, arts, and crafts come together with these easily accessible technologies for all.
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Sylvia Martinez

Author and Independent Education Consultant, Constructing Modern Knowledge
Sylvia is co-author of “Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom”, a new book advocating authentic learning using modern technology, real world design principles, and hands-on experiences. The book has been hailed as the “Bible of the Maker Movement... Read More →

Wednesday November 15, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EST
Grandmaster Salon 2 (NEXT)
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