STEMx members present in July with NSTA

May 31, 2018

The STEM Forum & Expo, hosted by NSTA, provides resources for educators and organizations seeking to learn more about STEM, outreach, partnerships, schools, and curricula.

The conference will be held at Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia from July 11–13, 2018. Register for the conference here.

We’re partnering with the National Science Teachers Association again. From making meaning in education to engaging rural communities, we’ve got topics to help you make the most of STEM education.

We would love to see you at the STEM forum! Below are the descriptions, times, and locations from around STEMx:

Wednesday, July 11 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
STEMx Session: Making It Matter: Giving Purpose to STEM Engage in purposeful STEM activities and discuss strategies that engage students underrepresented in STEM including ESOL, special education, and students from high poverty areas.	Presenter(s): Jodi Zeis (S2TEM Centers SC: Orangeburg, SC) FORMAT: Hands-On Workshop GRADE LEVEL: PreK, K, 1 – 8 CONFERENCE STRAND: Upper Elementary Pennsylvania Convention Center, 118A
STEMx Session: WOW! So That’s a STE(A)M Classroom Do you know what to look for when observing a successful STE(A)M classroom? Becoming a supportive STE(A)M administrator takes one step at a time so come and take your first step with us.	Presenter(s): Alice Gilchrist (S2TEM Centers SC: Greenwood, SC) FORMAT: Presentation GRADE LEVEL: PreK, K, 1 – 12 CONFERENCE STRAND: Administrators Pennsylvania Convention Center, 116
Wednesday, July 11 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
STEMx Session: Retooling Leader Growth for STEM Learning Come experience growth activities featured in a multi-state cohort professional development effort to build capacity in leaders to promote STEM learning. Learn how to get involved yourself!	Presenter(s): Becky Ashe (L&N STEM Academy: Knoxville, TN), Stephanie Johnson (Ohio STEM Learning Network/Battelle: Columbus, OH) FORMAT: Presentation GRADE LEVEL: K, 1 – 12 CONFERENCE STRAND: Administrators Pennsylvania Convention Center, 116
STEMx Session: The Power of Place-Based Education: Helping Rural Educators Leverage Local Assets Interested in place-based education? Hear how the Tennessee Rural STEM Collaborative leverages PBE to increase rural educators’ capacity to connect with valuable expertise and access assets that focus on STEM locally.	Presenter(s): Brandi Stroecker and Evan Curran (Tennessee STEM Innovation Network-Battelle: Nashville, TN) FORMAT: Presentation GRADE LEVEL: 1 – 12 CONFERENCE STRAND: Partnerships Pennsylvania Convention Center, 117
STEMx Session: Be Adaptable—Switch Up Your Approach to STEM through Transdisciplinary Problem-Based Learning Come hear about how you can adapt your TPBL approach to meet the needs of your students and community. Adaptable Approaches to STEM explores how employing real problems establishes new instructional strategies that amplify project-based delivery, promote options in assessment, and respond to culturally relevant workforce development.	Presenter(s): Sheli Smith (PAST Foundation: Columbus, OH), Annalies Corbin (PAST Foundation: Columbus, OH), Holly Lavender (Ohio Dept. of Education: Columbus, OH) FORMAT: Presentation GRADE LEVEL: PreK, K, 1 – 12 CONFERENCE STRAND: High School Pennsylvania Convention Center, 118A
Thursday, July 12 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Leveraging Partnerships to Ensure a Future-Ready Workforce (Day 1) How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? As leaders in education, we need to leverage every advantage at our disposal to ensure students’ coursework is relevant and that they have experiences in the community that build their understanding of the requirements for the jobs of tomorrow. Join leaders from across the country as they discuss innovative partnerships that are reshaping how students develop skills for success in future STEM careers and are laying the foundation for America’s future-ready workforce.	Moderator: J. Wesley Hall, Executive Director, STEMx at Battelle: Nashville, TN Panelists: David Burns, Director, Education Operations, Battelle Michael Stone, STEM Director of Innovative Learning, Public Education Fund, Chattanooga, TN Jill Lansing, Assistant Vice Chancellor, SUNY, Empire State STEM Network FORMAT: Featured Panel GRADE LEVEL: General Pennsylvania Convention Center, 119B
Friday, July 13 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Leveraging Partnerships to Ensure a Future-Ready Workforce (Day 2) How do we prepare students for jobs that don’t yet exist? As leaders in education, we need to leverage every advantage at our disposal to ensure students’ coursework is relevant and that they have experiences in the community that build their understanding of the requirements for the jobs of tomorrow. Join leaders from across the country as they discuss innovative partnerships that are reshaping how students develop skills for success in future STEM careers and are laying the foundation for America’s future-ready workforce.	Moderator: J. Wesley Hall, Executive Director, STEMx at Battelle: Nashville, TN Panelists: David Burns, Director, Education Operations, Battelle Michael Stone, STEM Director of Innovative Learning, Public Education Fund, Chattanooga, TN Jill Lansing, Assistant Vice Chancellor, SUNY, Empire State STEM Network FORMAT: Featured Panel GRADE LEVEL: General Pennsylvania Convention Center, 119B

You can read about all the sessions at the event here: http://science.nsta.org/conferences/schedule2.aspx?id=2018phi

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Celebrating the 2023 STEM Innovation Forum

By Rob Evans • November 1, 2023

by Heather Sherman, Director of STEMx The 2023 STEM Innovation Forum: Activating Collaborations to Advance an Inclusive STEM Workforce was a success! Through our collaboration with STEMconnector and Million Women Mentors, we convened 160 leaders from industry, government, non-profit organizations, and education institutions from all over the United States to discuss strategies and best practices to support the STEM workforce. We were honored to host a variety of dynamic speakers including: Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado Brynt Parmeter, Chief Talent Management Officer, U.S. Department of Defense Dr. Athina Kanioura, Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, PepsiCo and Dr. Lisa Hinkelman, Founder and CEO of Ruling Our eXperiences (RoX). We extend our gratitude to our panelists, Learning Session speakers, and participants who joined us in Denver. Broadening participation We set out share information on trends in STEM education and workforce development, with an emphasis on broadening participation in STEM careers. Resources from sessions highlighting strategies for broadening participation are linked below: DoD STEM: Developing a STEM Workforce to Support the National Security Mission Priming the Pump for High Demand STEM Careers STEM Workforce Readiness for Teen Girls: “If She Can See It, She Can Be It” Driving change Another goal of the forum was to feature high impact strategies, programs and solutions that are driving change, and STEMx members from LASTEM , the PAST Foundation and MBRT showed how they are engaging youth and building career awareness through their workforce programs. Emerging technologies We looked towards the future to better understand how emerging technologies will change the world and the ways we must prepare STEM talent for jobs in logistics, artificial intelligence, research safety , bioenergy , and renewable technologies. Chevron‘s sponsored panel, “Cultivating the Talent to Drive the Innovation and Technologies for Ever-Cleaner Energy” was a rich discussion featuring experts from Chevron, Project Lead the Way and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Dr. Jamie Vernon, Executive Director, and CEO, Sigma Xi Society was a fantastic moderator for this discussion. Next steps We have linked event resources including videos, slide decks and collateral on the event landing page . The event photo gallery is located there as well. If you attended, please complete our 30 second event survey . Five lucky winners will be selected at random to receive a Forum water bottle! More importantly, your feedback matters to us. If you did not attend, mark your calendar for next fall - we’re looking to make next year even bigger! If you are interested in hosting in your state, or have thoughts about compelling content that we should include, please reach out to Heather Sherman .

STEM Innovation Forum: Agenda and New Sponsors

By Rob Evans • October 3, 2023

Join us for The STEM Innovation Forum: Activating Collaborations to Advance an Inclusive STEM Workforce