For the third year, we will be convening education innovators. At ExCITe, STEAM is more than education. It’s the belief that the creativity and “maker” spirit that is common to both the Arts & Design and the STEM fields provides a relentless source of inspiration and innovation. Most importantly, the convening of diverse perspectives spanning STEM and the Arts offers unique opportunities to share ideas, form new connections, and sow the seeds of transformation.
Presentations by
Amy Cline, Science Teacher, AIM Academy
John Kamal, Engineering Teacher, Science Leadership Academy
Andrew Bennett Jackson, Graduate Assistant, Roxborough High School STEAM Lab
Laura Blankenship, Dean of Academic Affairs and Chair of Computer Science, The Baldwin School
Student team, Philadelphia Performing Arts
Keynote speaker
Dr. Nettrice Gaskins
Director of the STEAM Lab at the Boston Arts Academy
Dr. Gaskins received a BFA in Computer Graphics with Honors from Pratt Institute in 1992 and a MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1994. She worked for several years in K-12 and post-secondary education, community media and technology before enrolling at Georgia Institute of Technology where she received a doctorate in Digital Media in 2014. Her model for ‘techno-vernacular creativity’ is an area of practice that investigates the characteristics of this production and its application in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics). Her essays are included in Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader, Future Texts: Subversive Performance and Feminist Bodies, and Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness. Gaskins presented at We Are City 2014 in Indianapolis, ISEA2011 in Istanbul, co-facilitated Augmented Reality in Open Spaces (AROS) at ISEA2012 in Albuquerque, and was an artist-in-residence at the Taos Paseo Festival in 2015. Gaskins was a Digital STEAM research intern at the Smithsonian Institution (2013) and received funding from the National Science Foundation for Advancing STEM Through Culturally Situated Arts-Based Learning (2014).