Atlanta STEM Smart Agenda

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Time	Description
10:00am - 10:30am	Registration (coffee served)
10:30am - 10:50am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Janice Earle, Program Director, National Science Foundation \| View Presentation Ashok Agrawal, Managing Director for Professional Development and Director of Outreach and Engagement, American Society for Engineering Education \| View Presentation
10:50am - 11:45am	The Role of Engineering in Successful K–12 STEM Education—Plenary Presentation Moderator: Darryl Williams, Associate Dean of Recruitment, Retention, and Community Engagement, and Director of the Center for STEM Diversity, Tufts University Panelists: Greg Pearson, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering; Cary Sneider, Associate Research Professor, Portland State University; Marion Usselman, Principal Research Scientist and Associate Director, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:45am - 12:00pm	Break
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Focusing on the "E" in STEM—Breakout Sessions Design Squad: Inspiring a New Generation of Engineers: David Peth, WGBH \| View Presentation Engineering High School Biology into the 21st Century: Christian Schunn, University of Pittsburgh \| View Presentation Engineer Your World: Engineering Design and Problem Solving for High Schools: Cheryl Farmer, University of Texas at Austin \| View Presentation Integrating Engineering and Literacy: David Hammer and Jessica Watkins, Tufts University \| View Presentation Making a Difference in the World: Engineering in Middle School Math and Science Classrooms: Amy Wendt, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Amy Schiebel, Edgewood College \| View Presentation What Does It Mean to "Engineer” in Engineering is Elementary?: Erin Fitzgerald, Museum of Science, Boston \| View Presentation
1:00pm - 1:15pm	Break
1:15pm - 2:15pm	Networking (lunch served) The Joy of STEM: Engineering Is at the Heart of It —Plenary Presentation Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director, National Science Foundation \| View Presentation
2:15pm - 2:30pm	Break
2:30pm - 3:30pm	Focusing on the "E" in STEM—Breakout Sessions CAPSULE: How to Use Engineering-Based Learning (EBL) in High School STEM Teaching: Jessica Chin, Northeastern University \| View Presentation Elementary Engineering Teacher Professional Development: Initiation to Integration: Heidi Diefes-Dux, Purdue University \| View Presentation Engaging Youth Through Engineering (EYE) Modules: Integrating and Bringing Relevance to Core Middle Grades Mathematics and Science Content: Susan Pruet, Melissa Dean, and Judy Duke, Mobile Area Education Foundation \| View Presentation Implementing K-12 Engineering Standards Through STEM Integration: Tamara Moore, Aran Glancy, Forster Ntow, and Kristina Tank, University of Minnesota,Twin Cities Learning Science Through Engineering Design: An Effective Approach to STEM Integration at the Elementary School Level: Brenda Capobianco and Chell Nyquist, Purdue University \| View Presentation Mathematics Instruction Using Decision Science and Engineering Tools: Robert Young and Karen Keene, North Carolina State University \| View Presentation
3:30pm - 3:45pm	Break
3:45pm - 4:30pm	K–12 and Higher Education: Why Collaboration Is Vital —Plenary Presentation Joseph Cocozza, Co-Director of Education and Outreach Programs, Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems, Engineering Research Center; Assistant Professor of Research, Ophthalmology, University of Southern California \| View Presentation Adah Leshem, Program Director of Pre-College Education, NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals \| View Presentation