Professional Development Learning Session Highlights

Over 100 Professional Development Learning Sessions will be conducted at this year’s conference. Most sessions are 50 minutes in length and occur on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Listed below are a few highlights; the complete list of session titles will appear in the full conference program.

• Branding and Connecting Your Technology Education Program
• Girl Power: Recruiting and Retaining Girls
• Fifty STEM Activities Using Scrap Paper
• RESEARCH – DESIGN – BUILD: A Tiny House Collaboration
• Modeling Integrated STEM PBL: Preservice Teacher Preparation
• Diversifying the STEM Pipeline with MakerSpaces
• STEMbassadors: Connecting Higher Education and the K-12 Community
• Soft Robotics in the Classroom
• Using Formative Feedback to Shape Design Thinking
• Survive Your First Year of Engineering Design
• Integrating Remote-sensing Into Quadcopter Curriculum and Competitions
• Building Bridges through Stackable Credentials
• The Fast Formula for Dimensioning Engineering Drawings
• Hosting Summer Camps for Teachers and Students
• STEAM Integration Using Ozobots
• STEM Community Collaboration is a Win-Win!