agenda

toc //**Objective – The conference is designed to explore how the methodologies of designing, making, and playing can create broader and more compelling pathways into STEM learning in informal and formal settings.**//

=**Friday – January 13, 2012**=


 * 7:30–8:30 – Registration and Breakfast (Auditorium Lobby)**


 * 8:30–9:30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks (Auditorium)**
 * Margaret Honey – President and CEO, New York Hall of Science
 * Dale Dougherty – General Manager, Maker Media Division of O’Reilly Media and Founder, Maker Faire
 * Tom Kalil – Deputy Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
 * David Kanter – Director, SciPlay, New York Hall of Science

**Framing Design, Make, Play**

 * 9:30–10:30 – [|Keynote: Ends and Means: A Framework for Design, Make, and Play Learning Activities (PDF)] (Auditorium)**
 * Eli Silk – Research Associate, Center for Highly Interactive Classrooms, Curricula and Computing in Education, University of Michigan


 * 10:30–10:45 – Break and Transition**

**Experiencing Design, Make, Play**
(Attendees will participate in 1 of 7 workshops)
 * 10:45–11:45 – Set 1 Workshops, Round 1**


 * #1 Build a Robot from Scratch (Lab 1)**
 * Presenters:** David VanEsselstyn and Jenny Young, Co-Founders, Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Brooklyn, NY


 * #2 Build, Test and Take Home a Vibrocraft (Lab 4)**
 * Presenters:** Wm Brown, Director and Sally Hill, Designer, Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT


 * #3 Make a Pop-up Card Lit by LEDs (Conference Room)**
 * Presenter:** Marie Bjerde, Founder of e-Mergents, LLC, Portland, OR


 * #4 Pigments of Your Imagination (Lab 3)**
 * Presenter:** Elena Baca, Educator, Explora, Albuquerque, NM


 * #5 IDEA Cooperative Challenge (Library)**
 * Presenter**: Dan Haeg, Program Manager, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN


 * #6 LEGO Engineering: thinking with your hands (Lab 2)**
 * Presenter:** Chris Rogers, Director, Department of Engineering Education & Outreach, Tufts University, Medford, MA


 * #7 Craft Technology: Polyhedral Modeling with JavaGami (Lab 5)**
 * Presenters:** Mike Eisenberg and Ann Eisenberg, Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO


 * 11:45–12:00 – Break and Transition**

(Attendees will participate in 1 of 7 workshops)
 * 12:00 – 1:00 – Set 1** ** Workshops ****, Round 2**


 * #1 Build a Robot from Scratch (Lab 1)**
 * Presenters:** David VanEsselstyn and Jenny Young, Co-Founders, Brooklyn Robot Foundry, Brooklyn, NY


 * #2 Build, Test and Take Home a Vibrocraft (Lab 4)**
 * Presenters:** Wm Brown, Director and Sally Hill, Designer, Eli Whitney Museum, Hamden, CT


 * #3 Make a Pop-up Card Lit by LEDs (Conference Room)**
 * Presenter:** Marie Bjerde, Founder of e-Mergents, LLC, Portland, OR


 * #4 Pigments of Your Imagination (Lab 3)**
 * Presenter:** Elena Baca, Educator, Explora, Albuquerque, NM


 * #5 IDEA Cooperative Challenge (Library)**
 * Presenter**: Dan Haeg, Program Manager, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN


 * #6 LEGO Engineering: thinking with your hands (Lab 2)**
 * Presenter:** Chris Rogers, Director, Department of Engineering Education & Outreach, Tufts University, Medford, MA


 * #7 Craft Technology: Polyhedral Modeling with JavaGami (Lab 5)**
 * Presenters:** Mike Eisenberg and Ann Eisenberg, Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO


 * 1:15–­­2:15 – Lunch (Great Hall)**

(Attendees will participate in one of the second set of 7 workshops)
 * 2:15–3:15 – Set 2 Workshops, Round 1**


 * #8 Click! Agent Training @NYSCI (Library)**
 * Presenters:** Heather Mallak, Nina Barbuto and Sandlin Seguin, Girls, Math & Science Partnership (GMSP), Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA


 * #9 Build a Small Wooden Car (Lab 3)**
 * Presenter**: Deb Winsor, Owner, ConstructionKids, Inc., Brooklyn, NY


 * #10 Making the Future/Young Makers (Maker Space by Cognizant)**
 * Presenter**: Jon Santiago, Co-Founder, HTINK, Brooklyn, NY


 * #11 Engineering Design Challenge: Hydraulics (Lab 1)**
 * Presenter**: Monica Mayer, Science Education Specialist, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, CA


 * #12 Design Challenges: Miniature Bobsled (Lab 2)**
 * Presenters:** Melissa Higgins, Engineering is Elementary (EiE); Lydia Beall and Tricia DeGiulio, Design Challenges, Museum of Science, Boston, MA


 * #13 Write Your Code/Draw Your Artwork (Lab 5)**
 * Presenters**: Diana Coluntino and Adam //Norton//, The Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA and Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA


 * #14 Take It Apart (Lab 4)**
 * Presenters:** Dana Schloss and Katherine Ziff, Telus SPARK, Calgary, AB


 * 3:15–3:30 – Break and Transition**

(Attendees will participate in a second workshop of Set 2)
 * 3:30–4:30 – Set 2 Workshops, Round 2**


 * #8 Click! Agent Training @NYSCI (Library)**
 * Presenters:** Heather Mallak, Nina Barbuto and Sandlin Seguin, Girls, Math & Science Partnership (GMSP), Carnegie Science Center, Pittsburgh, PA


 * #9 Build a Small Wooden Car (Lab 3)**
 * Presenter**: Deb Winsor, Owner, ConstructionKids, Inc., Brooklyn, NY


 * #10 Making the Future/Young Makers (Maker Space by Cognizant)**
 * Presenter**: Jon Santiago, Co-Founder, HTINK, Brooklyn, NY


 * #11 Engineering Design Challenge: Hydraulics (Lab 1)**
 * Presenter**: Monica Mayer, Science Education Specialist, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley, CA


 * #12 Design Challenges: Miniature Bobsled (Lab 2)**
 * Presenters:** Melissa Higgins, Engineering is Elementary (EiE); Lydia Beall and Tricia DeGiulio, Design Challenges, Museum of Science, Boston, MA


 * #13 Write Your Code/Draw Your Artwork (Lab 5)**
 * Presenters**: Diana Coluntino and Adam //Norton//, The Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA and Sarah Kuhn, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA


 * #14 Take It Apart (Lab 4)**
 * Presenters:** Dana Schloss and Katherine Ziff, Telus SPARK, Calgary, AB


 * 4:30–4:45 – Break and Transition**

**Outcomes of Design, Make, Play**

 * 4:45–5:45 – [|Keynote: Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World (PPT)] (Auditorium)**
 * Tony Wagner – Innovation Education Fellow, Technology & Entrepreneurship Center, Harvard University


 * 6:00–8:00 – Reception (Upper Level) and Dinner (Lower Level)**

=**Saturday – January 14, 2012**=


 * 8:00–9:00 – Breakfast (Auditorium Lobby)**

**Assessing Design, Make, Play**

 * 9:00–10:00 –** [|Keynote: Activation: Understanding, Supporting, and Assessing a Passion for Science (PPT)] **(Auditorium)**
 * Kevin Crowley – Director, Center for Learning in Out-of-School Environments, University of Pittsburgh


 * 10:00–10:15 – Break and Transition**

**Coming to Conclusions about Design, Make, Play**

 * 10:15–11:15 –** Attendees will break into facilitated groups


 * Group #1** **//Hacking Neil Downie//** **(Lab 1)**
 * Presenters**: Wm Brown and Sally Hill Eli Whitney Museum


 * Group #2** **//Engineering is Elementary; Design Challenges// (Lab 2)**
 * Presenters**: Melissa Higgins, Lydia Beall, Tricia DeGuilio, Museum of Science, Boston


 * Group #3** **//IDEA Cooperative Challenge// (Lab 4)**
 * Presenter**: Dan Haeg, Science Museum of Minnesota


 * Group #4** **//LEGO Engineering// (Lab 5)**
 * Presenter:** Chris Rogers, Tufts University


 * Group #5** **//Craft Technology Lab// (Conference Room)**
 * Presenters**: Ann Eisenberg and Mike Eisenberg, University of Colorado Boulder


 * 11:15–11:30 – Break and Transition**


 * 11:30–12:30 ­­­–** Whole group synthesis of small group conversations
 * (Auditorium)**


 * 12:30–1:30 – Box Lunch (Auditorium Lobby)**