Spring+2012+Engineering+and+Tinkering+Gathering


 * Thursday, May 10**
 * Castilleja School**
 * 1310 Bryant Street, Palo Alto**
 * Coffee reception at 9:00am**
 * Gathering** **from 9:30am - 2:30pm**

**IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO COME, PLEASE PUT YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDANCE LIST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE.** **(to edit the page, first click on "Edit" in the upper right corner)**

We have several guests who are coming. Among them,

1. Professor Paulo Blikstein of Stanford University, who is leading the FabLab@School project. For more info about him and FabLab@School:

http://stanfordmakersclub.ning.com/page/fablabschool-1 http://www.blikstein.com/paulo/ http://fab.cba.mit.edu/

2. Jaymes Dec, of Marymount School in New York. He runs the FabLab at Marymount. I believe several of you know him.


 * Tentative schedule:**

9:00am: Coffee and pastry reception 9:30am: Welcome and opening remarks 9:45am - 12:00pm: Rapid-fire presentations (10-15 minutes each) 12:00pm - 12:50pm: Lunch 12:50pm - 1:35pm: Break-out sessions #1 1:40pm - 2:25pm: Break-out sessions #2

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 * Ideas / topics for afternoon break-out sessions:**

__**First session (12:50pm - 1:35pm)**__

1. Developing a curricular program to integrate/support engineering, making, tinkering, robotics in your school - Edward Chen //Location: Large Presentation Room (where we were this morning)// If you went to this space, my apologies for not being in there on time. I was not certain when folks where moving over to the space. Here are some of my own notes about the different approaches on how to integrate and support these programs into a school: - Using 'Take Apart' as a method to use reverse engineering as a method of learning. Nueva has 'take apart' sessions regularly just for this purposes - sometimes as summer camp sessions, after-school enrichment, or clubs. - Use robotics or Maker clubs as wedges to create these learning opportunities - Integrated learning opportunities with teachers, which require a knowledge of their curriculum, units, timing, scope and sequence to help them insert such projects in a relatively smooth fashion. Castijella's model starts with showing and informing teachers of the curricular intersects within a project. - Build multi-layered integration projects - Nueva's solar house project involves math,science, art, and world language teachers working together. - Create open lab hours - during lunch, and after-school (as an after-school offering) are good starts. Even during school breaks for deep dives, if your staffing can handle such hours. - Develop Design Thinking or Entrepreneurship programs. These overarching programs can have a strong engineering, design, and creative extensions, which foster engineering and making. - Above all, (this probably doesn't need reminding), but focus on the learning outcomes to drive your initiative. What is it that you want students to learn? Each school has a different focus - some on resiliency, some on creative, some on design. Each foci drives your program in a slightly different direction. - Budget and support - In addition to dollars for equipment, look at who will support these programs. Even if you have a 3D printer, do you have, or can build, expertise within your human resources to properly support and maintain such a device? More importantly, is this a person who can be creative and educationally focused enough to provide integration and/or project ideas?

2. Developing tinker clubs / after school programs (Where do you start?) - Abigail Joseph //Location: CSA Room (right down the hall from where we were this morning)//

3. Observe the Castilleja Bourn Idea Lab in action (first-session only, limited attendance) //Diego Fonstad// //Location: Bourn Idea Lab//

//__**Second session (1:40pm - 2:25pm)**__//

//1. Talk with Diego and/or Paulo on the Casti experience (second-session only, in the lab)// Diego Fonstad //Location: Bourn Idea Lab//


 * Attendance List**

Gabe Lucas, Castilleja School Diego Fonstad, Castilleja School Angi Chau, Castilleja School Nanci Kauffman, Castilleja School Josée Band, Castilleja School Sarah Barnum, Castilleja School Helen Shanks, Castilleja School Jean Adams, Castilleja School Jamie Sullivan, Castilleja School John Ray Gutierrez, Castilleja School Paulo Blikstein, FabLab@School Claire Rosenbaum, FabLab@School Jaymes Dec, Marymount School Aaron Eden, Stevenson School Jim Fannin, Stevenson School Bob Cole, Monterey Institute of International Studies Suzanne Falkenstein, The Athenian School Dave Otten, The Athenian School Ryan Gallagher, San Francisco Friends School John Venuti, Crystal Springs Uplands School Howard Levin, Schools of the Sacred Heart San Francisco Jason Stone, San Francisco Day School Lindsay Anderson, 6th/8th gr. science, San Francisco Day School Susan Kendall, Santa Catalina School Lori Hébert, College Prep School Phil King, Katherine Delmar Burke School Kerri Willa, Chinese American International School Brad Wright, Chinese American International School Angela Neff, on sabbatical researching and developing 21st Century Learning Opps Cindy Zimmerman, Gateway School, Santa Cruz Jeremy King, Gateway School, Santa Cruz Yvonne Faisal, Woodside Priory School Michele Riebhoff, Woodside Priory School Christa Flores, Hillbrook School Abigail Joseph, The Harker School Laura Camodeca, Keys School Chris Bastian, Keys School Jaymes Dec, Marymount School Arian Solberg, San Francisco Waldorf School Jenny Howland, Burke's School Kirk Lorie, Town School Eric Wild, Town School Christine Hemiup, Woodside Priory School Tom Wadbrook, Drew School Meghan Quirk, Drew School Adrian Bica, St. Andrews Episcopal School Jeri Countryman, Iridescent - Technovation Challenge program Fred Jaravata, Schools of the Sacred Heart James Meyersahm, Emery Unified. Michael Delay, German American School Edward Chen, The Nueva School Gary Donahue, Chadwick International School (via Skype if possible as I'm in South Korea) Don Orth, Hillbrook School David Spence, Menlo School Zubair Ahmed, Stanford Univsersity Susan Kendall, Santa Catalina School Brian Borgerding, Santa Catalina School Tatian Greenleaf, Saint Mark's School Eugenie Paick, Castilleja School