WICO Workshop: Pinholes & Photography
2019-03-24 10:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maker Ed’s Community Studio, 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, United States
Join Wonderful Idea Co educators and special guest facilitator Modesto Tamez for a introduction to the physical properties of light, building pinhole cameras out of everyday materials and developing the photographic prints.
This family-friendly workshop will give learners the chance to learn, make and tinker together. The price of admission includes one adult and one child registration and you will be able to take home your pinhole camera to continue the explorations.

Community Studio Launch Party!
2019-03-30 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maker Ed’s Community Studio, 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, United States
Join Maker Ed for pancakes with local chefs, a signature cocktail from Bar Agricole, hands-on making activities, a silent auction, and more!

US Fab Lab Annual Symposium
2019-04-10 00:00 - 2019-04-12 23:59 (America/New_York) | NCC Fowler Family Southside Center, Bethlehem, PA, United States
From the event organizer: “Join us for our annual Symposium!
Hands-on workshops will be the main emphasis for this event as we have a chance to leverage the wonderful facility available in the Fab Lab at Northampton Community College.
Many equipment vendors will also be displaying a variety of Fab Lab/Makerspace gear and providing training sessions.

Learn and share material manufacturing skills
Immerse yourself in the Fab Lab/Makerspace mission
Inspire the art, skill, satisfaction, and educational benefits of Making and Experiential Learning”

Creative Coding Professional Development: Crafting Computational Identities
2019-05-02 09:00 - 2019-05-04 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maker Ed’s Community Studio, 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, United States
Join special guest Leah Beuchley for a workshop that will introduce different ways that youth can integrate computation with craft, art, and design.
These practices support personal expression and explorations of identity and culture through computing. We will examine research on the connections between art, culture, and engagement in education. We will play with programming, fabricating, and making in different media, including clay, paper, and textiles. And, we will discuss connections between culture, technology, and class–looking for new beautiful and personally meaningful pathways into STEM.

Maker Ed Summer Institute
2019-06-24 15:00 - 2019-06-28 15:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Maker Ed’s Community Studio, 1808 5th Street, Berkeley, CA, 94710, United States
The Maker Ed Summer Institute will bring together maker educators and advocates to build a community of practice in support of powerful maker education programs. Through a combination of workshops, discussions, skill sharing, break-outs, reflection and collaborative work time, we will deepen our practice, learn from each other, and design together for equity in our respective programs and across the movement. During the Institute, we will examine maker education through the critical lenses of Maker Ed’s values: equity, agency, community, learning, and joy.

Pop-Up PLNs: Crash Course on Scratch
2020-03-24 11:00 - 23:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: This session will explore basics of the Scratch platform–a free online coding tool–and provide an opportunity for participants to create their own animated story. No prior knowledge of Scratch or computer programming is needed.
Presented By: Tyler Samstag, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Webinar Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Pop-Up PLNs: Building a Sense of Place with Google Tour Builder
2020-03-24 15:00 - 15:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: Google Tour Builder allows you to craft a story, linking it to locations on Earth, and share it with others. Your source material can be a book, video, or personal history. Join us to explore this valuable tool.
Presented By: Kevin Conner, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Pop-Up PLNs: Strategies for Digital Reading, Grades 4+
2020-03-25 11:00 - 23:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: Explore and engage in two strategies to help students build deeper reading and thinking skills when reading on screen.
Presented By: Heather Moschetta, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Pop-Up PLNs: Using PowerPoint to Make Talking Books
2020-03-25 15:00 - 15:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: This session will introduce you to using PowerPoint as a literacy tool to support reading and writing. Participants will use several features to create digital books that talk, along with implementation ideas. Participants will need to have PowerPoint.
Presented By: Kendra Bittner, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Pop-Up PLNs: Creating 3D Virtual Worlds: Intro to Alice
2020-03-26 11:00 - 11:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: We’ll share tips and tricks related to all of the features available in Zoom, and how to set up a Zoom meeting that will be successful.
Presented By: Jana Baxter and Kevin Conner, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Birdbrain Technologies Webinar: Robot Petting Zoo
2020-03-26 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join Kelsey Derringer and Matt Chilbert from BirdBrain Technologies to learn to design and make your own Robot Petting Zoo animal out of craft supplies and robotic components using the Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Don’t have a Hummingbird? Purchase one from our webstore. This webinar is appropriate for anyone ages 8 and up, whether they are a student, parent, or teacher!
We’ll be using common household craft supplies to make robotic animals from right at home. Check below for a list of craft supplies you may want to have handy. This webinar is free for anyone to attend.

Pequeños cuidadanos
2020-03-30 08:00 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Explora y construye una ciudad en base a tu imaginación. Conectarse 5 minutos antes del inicio de cada sesión: https://zoom.us/j/539658359
Sabemos que el mundo actualmente vive una situación complicada y si bien nuestros gobiernos están tomando las mejores medidas para cuidarnos, también salta el compromiso que tenemos como ciudadanos para contribuir a nuestra sociedad y hacer estas épocas más llevaderas desde casa.
Por ello hemos lanzado esta campaña Aprendiendo desde Casa 2020 donde distintas plataformas y emprendimientos brindaremos TALLERES GRATUITOS para toda la familia (niñ@s, adolescentes, jóvenes y adultos) durante el mes de Marzo.
En esta aventura tú y tu familia podrán aprender – desde la comodidad de su casa – sobre matemáticas, diseño digital, construcciones, fabricación de juguetes, construcción con materiales reciclados y mucho más.

Pop-Up PLNs: Introduction to micro:bit
2020-03-30 11:00 - 11:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Presented By: Katie Henry, micro:bit
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Tinkering with Gever
2020-03-30 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Tinker School’s founder Gever Tulley and friends for some tinkering wisdom, fun provocations, and lots of laughs as we explore and tinker with common household materials and tools.
In this one of a kind live show, when things go wrong, the audience gets to see!
Live Shows @ 3pm PST, Monday – Thursday
Episodes will be recorded and available on Tinkering School’s Youtube Channel.

Women Making History
2020-03-31 06:00 - 07:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
SCOPES-DF and the Fab Foundation are celebrating the work of women leading the way in digital fabrication and STEM. Join them as they share their work, the challenges they face, their hopes for the future of their work, and how they are navigating the new normal.

The PlayLine
2020-03-31 07:00 - 07:30, 2020-04-01 07:00 - 07:30, 2020-04-02 07:00 - 07:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
The PlayLine is a twice daily, 30 minute, Zoom educator meetup hosted by @carlyciarrocchi and @amptMN and geared toward museum educators, classroom teachers, science club coaches and more!

Mates Divertidas
2020-03-31 08:00 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
Explora de manera divertida el maravilloso mundo de las matemáticas. Conectarse 5 minutos antes del inicio de cada sesión: https://zoom.us/j/539658359
Sabemos que el mundo actualmente vive una situación complicada y si bien nuestros gobiernos están tomando las mejores medidas para cuidarnos, también salta el compromiso que tenemos como ciudadanos para contribuir a nuestra sociedad y hacer estas épocas más llevaderas desde casa.
Por ello hemos lanzado esta campaña Aprendiendo desde Casa 2020 donde distintas plataformas y emprendimientos brindaremos TALLERES GRATUITOS para toda la familia (niñ@s, adolescentes, jóvenes y adultos) durante el mes de Marzo.
En esta aventura tú y tu familia podrán aprender – desde la comodidad de su casa – sobre matemáticas, diseño digital, construcciones, fabricación de juguetes, construcción con materiales reciclados y mucho más.

MakeCode for the micro:bit
2020-03-31 09:00 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles)
In this series, MakeCode for micro:bit will bring pupils from age 6 to 10 through being artistic, mathematical & musical by using block-based programming. No physical micro:bit is required at home so join us to learn, imagine, design and code.
Please note- this activity is browser based at https://makecode.microbit.org

Pop-Up PLNs: Drawing with Python
2020-03-31 15:00 - 15:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: Discover how to utilize CS Academy to create colorful digital images with Python programming code – you’ll definitely want to know more about this wonderful, graphics-based coding platform!
Presented By: Linda Muller, Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Tinkering with Gever
2020-03-31 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-04-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Tinker School’s founder Gever Tulley and friends for some tinkering wisdom, fun provocations, and lots of laughs as they explore and tinker with common household materials and tools.
In this one of a kind live show, when things go wrong, the audience gets to see!
Live Shows @ 3pm PST, Monday – Thursday
Episodes will be recorded and available on Tinkering School’s Youtube Channel.

Empowering Families Through Engineering! Part 1
2020-03-31 18:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York)
This two part webinar session will teach parents how the Engineering Design Process can foster creative problem solving skills, lessen fears, and help empower their children to become helpers in this global crisis.
Parents will build an understanding the Engineering Design process and how it can empower kids to use creativity to solve problems.
To join us, please make sure to register separately for both days, Tuesday, March 31st and Thursday, April 2nd.
EiE, the PreK – 8 STEM Education division of the Museum of Science, Boston is committed to serving families and our communities. We are dedicated to supporting STEM in new and innovative ways. EiE is excited to offer opportunities for parents, caregivers, and influential adults to join our STEM Beyond School webinar series. These webinars are free and open to all. Join us as we continue our mission of providing equitable STEM access for ALL. #STEMbeyondschool

The Dawn of the Age of Digital Learning
2020-04-01 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Reserve your spot for this GSV Virtual Summit.

Pop-Up PLNs: Maintaining Arts Learning at Home
2020-04-01 15:00 - 15:45 (America/New_York)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: Share currently available resources to support distance learning and arts learning at home. Provide opportunity for peer-to-peer learning by arts discipline. How are you using this time? How are you supporting student arts learning?
Presented By: Yael Silk, Arts Education Collaborative
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Pop-Up PLNs: News & Media Literacy Resources for the Classroom
2020-04-02 11:00 - 11:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Pop-Up PLNs (Professional Learning Networks) are engaging, virtual opportunities to explore new technologies and teaching practices while connecting with other educators, all from the convenience of your living room!
Session Description: Explore a collection of vetted resources, lessons, videos, articles, printables focusing on news literacy, media literacy and Social & Cultural Literacy.
Presented By: Jennifer Ehehalt, Common Sense Education
Session Link: Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android at https://paiu.zoom.us/j/638767040

Lunch Bites Webinar Series: Hands-On Learning in a Virtual Environment
2020-04-02 11:30 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Even as the news is changing daily, what remains is the need within our community to feel connected to each other, grow professionally, and share resources. Given these current circumstances the CA STEAM Symposium is prioritizing creative ways to support our education community to benefit all of our students. You may be thinking, “Resources are great, but how do I deliver online instruction next week?” Recognizing that you have an immediate need to provide online instruction, the Lunch Bites Webinar Series provides short sessions that provide tangible tools you can immediately use. Take a stretch break, grab your lunch, and collaborate with us as we examine the realities and opportunities of delivering lessons in a virtual way.
This installment will be hosted by the Exploratorium.

How to Build a Makerspace at Home
2020-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Join Stephanie Chang from Maker Ed on this live #InfyEdChat on Twitter to explore how you can create a space for making at home.

STEM Build, Books, and Beats with Nate Ball
2020-04-02 13:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Weekly live show of hands-on STEM activities you can try at home.
