UPCOMING EVENTS
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PETE&C: Animated Art - Robotics and Paper Prototyping
Create 2-D and 3-D designs with FabMaker Studio then bring your art to life programming lights, motors, and sensors with Birdbrain Technologies Hummingbird robotics. Experience how easy it is to incorporate art, computer science and engineering into your elementary or middle school classroom.
Speaker(s): Lorraine Shaffer (Kid's Innovation Playground), Andrea Calvin (Vice President, FableVision Learning)
View full PETE&C Program here.
What: Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference 2024
When: February 6, 2024 3:10 - 4:00PM EDT
Where: Tea House, Hershey Hotel 100 Hotel Rd, Hershey, PA 17033
PETE&C: Paper Prototyping Bootcamp
What do you get when you pair paper-prototyping with robotics? Young engineers! Discover how programs across PA have used low cost software tools, paper, and robotics to spark creativity and STEAM-powered learning. This session provides instruction for getting comfortable with the tools and ideas for the classroom and beyond.
Speaker(s): Andrea Calvin (Vice President, FableVision Learning), Lorraine Shaffer (Kid's Innovation Playground)
View the full PETE&C Program here.
What: Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference 2024
When: February 5, 2024 10:30 - 11:20AM EDT
Where: Magnolia B, Hershey Lodge 325 University Drive Hershey, PA, 17033
ED Games Expo 2020: Making in K12 & CTE Friday Showcase
Educators and makers of all ages are invited to the Making in K12 & CTE Friday Showcase at the Ed Games Expo on Friday, Jan. 10.
During this unique, hands-on event, at Building Momentum, meet the FableVision Learning/Reynolds Center team and create with Fab@School Maker Studio. Paul Reynolds CEO of FableVision/Reynolds Center will be providing the closing remarks
DATE: Friday January 10, 2020 2 PM – 5 PM
LOCATION: Building Momentum 5380 Eisenhower Avenue, Suite C. Alexandria, VA 22304
RSVP: The Expo is free and open to the public. Attendees must RSVP online to gain entry.
About the Event: Maker Spaces and Making in K12 schools and CTE settings and in communities, and technologies that support students in being makers, provide the opportunity to apply learning of academic content and to practicing career skills, while solving authentic problems through hands-on and often collaborative real-word experiences.
The showcase will convene the developers, government representatives, and industry partners in the field of making, to discuss innovative models and approaches that are building capacity for “maker education” as a mainstream learning activity in schools and communities, especially in underserved areas.
The showcase will also include a demo session where attendees and local teachers and students will be able to demo a series of maker technologies and projects that were developed with the support of government programs while meeting the developers.
Preliminary Agenda
2 to 3: Opening Remarks
Allen Brooks, Building Momentum
Albert Palacios, US Department of Education
Paula Gangopadhyay, Institute of Museum of Library Services
A Short State of the Field in Making for K12 and CTE
Dorothy Jones-Davis, Nation of Makers
A set of “Big Idea” talks on models to support the emergence and sustainability of maker spaces and making in schools, CTE settings, and in communities, followed by Q&A with attendees
Andrew Coy, Digital Harbor
Cara Lesser, Kid Museum
Ben Stokes, American University
Ilana Preuss, Recast City
Alana Preuss and DJ Morneau, Games for Change
Closing Remarks by Paul Reynolds of Fablevision/Reynolds Center
.3-:3:30: Keynote Address: Scott Stump, Assistant Secretary, OCTAE, US Department of Education
3:30-5: Demoes of Maker technologies and Happy Hour
This event showcases successful ed tech products given a kick start with government small business grants through the ED/IES Small Business Innovation Research program.
More information about ED Games Expo here.
Join us for the Digital Storytelling #FableLearnChat on Jan. 16
Curious about digital storytelling? Want to share techniques and tools for how your school is engaging in digital storytelling? Join our #FableLearnChat on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018, at 7 p.m. (EST). Share how you are creating digital storytelling projects and get ideas for the rest of this school year - or prepare for the fall! Special thanks to John Long, Technology Program Specialist at School District of Palm Beach County, for helping host this chat!
You’re Invited: Fab@School Maker Studio Workshop at Dedham Public Library
Join us on Thursday, Nov. 16, at 3:30 - 4:30 at the Dedham Public Library where the FableVision Learning team will leading a Fab@School Maker Studio Thanksgiving-themed workshop. During this workshop, stop on by to design, fabricate, decorate your own Thanksgiving project.
FableVision Learning welcomes all curious learners and makers to experience STEM and STEAM learning in a more engaging and personally meaningful way with Fab@School Maker Studio.
Where: Dedham Public Library
43 Church St, Dedham, MA 02026
When: Thursday, Nov. 16, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. (EST)
Click here for the Dedham Public Library events page.
Meet the Reynolds Center Team at MassCUE Fall Conference
The Reynolds Center for Teaching, Learning, & Creativity team is thrilled to be exhibiting in the nonprofit area at the 2017 MassCUE and M.A.S.S. Annual Technology Conference. Join us Wednesday, Oct. 25, 7:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. ; and Thursday, Oct. 26, 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Gillette Stadium, 1 Patriot Pl, Foxborough, MA 02035
The Reynolds Center will be showcasing highlights from its MaSTEM initiative launched early 2017. Thanks to generous funding from the Cisco Foundation, the MaSTEM initiative includes 34 sites, from Boston to the Berkshires, bringing meaningful STEM education to low-income, high needs districts.
Schools participating in MaSTEM, received software, hardware, and professional development on Fab@School Maker Studio. Fab@School Maker Studio provides robust tools for teaching digital fabrication and desktop manufacturing. Through the online-program, elementary and middle school students can make, test, and revise 2D designs, pop-ups, 3D objects, and working machines as they learn STEM concepts in a meaningful context. Learn more about the program, here.
Stop by the booth to get hands-on experience with Fab@School, and learn about our other grant programs.
Paul Reynolds to Present at MassCue
Wednesday, Oct. 25 from 1:30-2:25 p.m.
“Connecting the Dots” Across Massachusetts to Support K-8 STEM Teaching & Learning
Join Paul Reynolds, founder of the Reynolds Center, and learn how several high-performing nonprofits “connected the dots” through a Mass.-based education innovation cluster to accelerate more engaging STEM learning with younger students (K-8), and are building grant-funded opportunities to bring the Fab@School Maker Studio digital design and fabrication STEM program into districts across the state.
Boston-based Reynolds Center, and its K-12 educational software partner FableVision Learning, will share how it has built a growing national network around the Fab@School Maker Studio digital design and fabrication STEM learning program for K-8 teachers and students. With funding from Cisco Foundation and by partnering with United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley and BoSTEM program partners, Fab@School is now being deployed here across the commonwealth as the Fab@School MaSTEM program. Not only is Fab@School fully aligned to Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, it also now specifically supports the 2016 Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering (STE) Curriculum Framework.
By spring 2017, the 100% grant-funded Fab@School MaSTEM program was deployed to 34 sites, providing - at no charge - the Fab@School Maker Studio web-based software, digital fabrication hardware, professional development, and ongoing support throughout the school year. Participating districts include: including Lowell Public Schools, Boston Public Schools, Brockton Public Schools, Central Massachusetts Collaborative, Worcester Public Schools, Webster Public Schools, North Adams Public Schools, as well as St John Paul II Schools under the Archdiocese of Boston.
Rounding out the presentation, the Reynolds Center will also share about a national partnership which offers match grant funds to Massachusetts schools and further supporting STEM education. The Fab@School Match Grant is offered by mindSpark Learning and supported through the Morgridge Family Foundation. Attendees will be provided information to apply for the grant.
Book Signing with Peter H. Reynolds
Thursday, Oct. 26, at 11:15 a.m.
New York Times best-selling author illustrator will be at the Reynolds Center booth (NP-8) on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 11:15 a.m. to sign books. During that time, 30% of all book sales will benefit the Reynolds Center STEAM initiatives.
Join us for the Fab@School Maker Studio #FableLearnChat Oct. 10
Curious about Fab@School Maker Studio? Want to share how your school is using the digital design & fabrication tool? Join our #FableLearnChat on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at 7 p.m. (EST). Share how you are using the tool and get ideas for this school year! Special thanks to John Long, Technology Program Specialist at School District of Palm Beach County, for helping host this chat! Special guests, Peggy Healy Stearns, Lead Designer, Fab@School Maker Studio and Denine Jimmerson, Executive Director of Curriculum & Design at FableVision Learning.