#The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

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Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language?  To K-12 students, very often it’s yes.  Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve this problem by founding the Scientific Journal for Kids, where her team of writers, designers, and teachers translates articles from scientific research journals into more kid-friendly language.  Tanya talks about how her time as a science teacher in Central Texas influenced her to found this nonprofit, and then explains all the details that go into collaborating with scientists to make their work more accessible.

 Related to this episode:  

• Science Journal for Kids (SJFK): https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/

• SJFK article relating to osmosis and energy: https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-can-we-turn-ocean-water-into-renewable-energy/

• Tumble Podcast: https://www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/

• Past episode with Marshall Escamilla: https://k12engineering.net/episodes/59

• Sarah Galvani-Townsend: https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/lesson-ideas/meet-a-scientist-sarah-galvani-townsend/

• Past guest Xiaojing Gao: https://www.k12engineering.net/episodes/113

• SJFK YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceJournalforKids

• r/explainlikeimfive: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/

• CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution licenses: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

• Dr. Shannon Currie: https://www.shannoncurrie.org/

 Opening music by LogicMoon: https://freesound.org/people/LogicMoon/sounds/617295/

Closing music by JetSmith88: https://freesound.org/people/JetSmith88/sounds/206065/

Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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OTR Links 04/04/2018

The Best of Ontario-Educators Daily

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#ECOOcamp Owen Sound – Complete Schedule – Educational Computing Organization of Ontario

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— ECOOorg (@ecooorg) April 3, 2018

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Google

Nazia Hassan’s 53rd birthday #GoogleDoodlehttps://t.co/BkcpyxceEk

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The Best of Ontario-Educators Daily

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The Best of Ontario-Educators 4 Daily

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The Best of Ontario-Educators 3 Daily

The latest Best of Ontario-Educators3 Daily! https://t.co/ec003nP2ef Thanks to @Bourmu @akgtCanada @Mrs_Svendsen #edtech #ontario

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The Doug Peterson Community News

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— Doug Peterson (@dougpete) April 3, 2018 The latest The Doug Peterson Community News! https://t.co/8v9lHZ31ja Thanks to @freep @lieberrian #k12

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KQED

How Civic Engagement Helps Students See Their Capacity to Make Change | MindShift | KQED News https://t.co/QFWdjUcJOD

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Ontario fires back at New York’s ‘Buy American’ policy | Toronto Star

Ontario fires back at New York’s ‘Buy American’ policy https://t.co/LarIqFZs9v via @torontostar

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Why are spreadsheets so important? – Digit Geek

Why are spreadsheets so important? https://t.co/0FeL4rOkXW via @flipboard

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Why Microsoft and Apple don’t need to sell your data | New York Post

Why Microsoft and Apple don’t need to sell your data https://t.co/C4zse64ho2 via @flipboard

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Windows 10 Tip: Five expert tips to help you master ink in OneNote – Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog

Five expert tips to help you master ink in OneNote https://t.co/JxcYpLdsAX via @flipboard

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Microsoft launches new online training courses for aspiring AI engineers – GeekWire

Microsoft launches new online training courses for aspiring AI engineers https://t.co/XhoqwwroJh via @flipboard

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Microsoft Is Officially Not the Windows Company Anymore – Bloomberg

Microsoft Is Officially Not the Windows Company Anymore https://t.co/JIAN5drj5I via @flipboard

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Flipboard on Flipboard

Instagram joins parade of major apps to abandon Apple Watch https://t.co/Nmx75Ymi4C via @flipboard

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Ranking The Five Apps You Need For Mapping Everything

Ranking The Five Apps You Need For Mapping Everything https://t.co/BgQ8i5bygw via @flipboard

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How to Edit PDF Files for Free | NDTV Gadgets360.com

How to Edit PDF Files for Free https://t.co/MdzMiQ2JSu via @flipboard

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Dean Cripe on Flipboard

Chrome Is Scanning Files on Your Computer, and People Are Freaking Out https://t.co/p2EPFm9KsP via @flipboard

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School? | EdSurge News

Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside of a Failing School? https://t.co/Hqf8EVoaEi via @flipboard

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Just Another Brick in the Wall | Psychology Today

Just Another Brick in the Wall https://t.co/b7uuDDc1xf via @flipboard

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Google giving free wifi to rural school bus riders in 12 states

Free Google Wi-Fi transforms rural school buses into rolling classrooms https://t.co/KeQqjvsmsy via @flipboard

— Doug Peterson (@dougpete) April 3, 2018

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5 Powerful Video Screen Capture Tools for Teachers | Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

5 Powerful Video Screen Capture Tools for Teachers https://t.co/tqq8UiG81n via @flipboard

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The Edublogger’s Guide To Podcasting – The Edublogger

The Edublogger’s Guide To Podcasting https://t.co/3d4nHXTrYd via @flipboard

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SecurityBrief NZ – Attackers exploit macro-less Office documents to create havoc

SecurityBrief NZ – Attackers exploit macro-less Office documents to create havoc https://t.co/YW2SPgY4d8

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Report: Google to launch a cheaper Pixel phone this summer

Report: Google to launch a cheaper Pixel phone this summer https://t.co/tuWVnCaaKl via @flipboard

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Apple Releases The macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Software Update – Geeky Gadgets

Apple Releases The macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 Software Update https://t.co/fX3p5K3I5m via @flipboard

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“Another nail in the coffin for learning styles” – students did not benefit from studying according to their supposed learning style – Research Digest

“Another nail in the coffin for learning styles” – students did not benefit from studying according to their supposed learning style https://t.co/TrmO66jsiQ via @flipboard

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Apple reportedly plans to ditch Intel’s processors entirely by 2020

Apple reportedly plans to ditch Intel’s processors entirely by 2020 https://t.co/1krX4iRPm1 via @flipboard

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Kevin Wharram on Flipboard

DNS service announced, puts privacy first https://t.co/JsuvADvyPD via @flipboard

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Google bans cryptocurrency mining extensions in the Chrome Web Store

Google bans cryptocurrency mining extensions in the Chrome Web Store https://t.co/g9NjPkyFjZ via @flipboard

— Doug Peterson (@dougpete) April 3, 2018

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Afghan woman shot in face builds new life in Canada after US rejection | World news | The Guardian

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Teachers have sounded the alarm – it’s time to listen https://t.co/04lEt2CIVR via @flipboard

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Attention Required! | Cloudflare

Master these 7 grammar tips if you want to sound smarter https://t.co/4DxJVhN9iM via @flipboard

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Where do you search? – doug — off the record

Where do you search? https://t.co/OEvS3VkPeR pic.twitter.com/2iLVGRiH7M

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Doug Peterson on Twitter: “Where do you search? https://t.co/OEvS3VkPeR… “

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OTR Links 04/03/2018 – doug — off the record

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What is synthetic biology? Researcher and professor Dr. Xiaojing Gao introduces this cutting edge field. He explains how his lab at Stanford University engineers biomolecular circuits, which are meant to be programmable, reproducible, and friendlier to mammalian cells than non-biological molecules.  Xiaojing hopes to create the building blocks of this technology, to one day better treat all sorts of medical conditions ranging from cancer to epilepsy. He also describes his path to his interdisciplinary career.

 Related to this episode:  

• Dr. Xiaojing Gao: https://cheme.stanford.edu/person/xiaojing-gao

• Gao Lab at Stanford: https://gaolab.blog/

• CAR T Therapy for cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/publications/dictionaries/cancer-terms/def/car-t-cell-therapy

• Targeted Therapy for cancer: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/targeted-therapies

• biological logic gates: https://phys.org/news/2020-04-cells-protein-logic-gates.html

• Brain & Behavior Foundation: https://www.bbrfoundation.org/

• Cell Reprogramming With CRISPR/Cas9 Based Transcriptional Regulation Systems:  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00882/full

• Physics Olympiad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Physics_Olympiad

• Michael Elowitz: https://www.bbe.caltech.edu/people/michael-b-elowitz

• Liqun Luo: https://profiles.stanford.edu/liqun-luo

• Can we write biological “software updates” to cure disease?: https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/can-we-write-biological-software-updates-to-cure-disease/

• Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists (WDTS) https://science.osti.gov/wdts

Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game.  Dan White, CEO of Filament Games, introduces RoboCo, their game meant to teach principles of robotics to players, from the mechanical design all the way to testing in the 3D world.  Dan discusses cofounding Filament Games with partners Dan Norton and Alex Stone, what constitutes a good or bad learning game, plans for integrating RoboCo into educational curricula, and more.

 Related to this episode:  

• Filament Games: https://www.filamentgames.com/

• RoboCo: https://www.roboco.co/

• Meaningful Gaming in Education, PAX presentation from Ashley Brandin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1pkwi7X8w

• iCivics: https://www.icivics.org/

• Roblox: https://www.roblox.com/

• Besiege: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besiege_(video_game)

• Space Engineers: https://www.spaceengineersgame.com/

• Minecraft Edu: https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/homepage

• ‘RoboCo’ Looks to Fuel Interest in STEM by Letting You Build Useful (and Crappy) Robots: https://www.roadtovr.com/roboco-looks-fuel-interest-stem-letting-build-useful-crappy-robots/

• FIRST Robotics: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

• Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/

• Civilization: https://civilization.com/

• Micro, by Michael Creighton and Richard Preston: https://www.michaelcrichton.com/micro/

Subscribe and find podcast updates at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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Chicago educator and entrepreneur Scott Steward breaks down his teaching philosophy, rooted in getting to know his students. Steward founded Genius Lab in Chicago, where he teaches young people technology, business, and how to become an adult. He honed his curriculum from teaching in Chicago Public Schools classrooms for fifteen years in largely black and brown communities.  First Steward traces his youth on the South Side of Chicago, when he did not prioritize academics at all, and then he explains the turning points that took him through the corporate world and eventually to teaching youth who grew up much like himself.

 Related to this episode:  

• Scott Steward: https://scottsteward.com/

• Genius Lab: https://www.geniuslabchicago.com/

• 666 new Texas laws go into effect Sept. 1: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/31/new-texas-laws-september-2021/

• Derrion Albert: The Death that Riled the Nation: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/derrion-albert-the-death-that-riled-the-nation/

• Million Man March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March

• Guillain-Barré syndrome: https://www.cdc.gov/campylobacter/guillain-barre.html

• NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship): https://www.nfte.com/

• Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep: https://brookscollegeprep.org/

• SEL (social-emotional learning): https://www.nu.edu/resources/social-emotional-learning-sel-why-it-matters-for-educators/

• Chase the Lion, by Mark Batterson: https://www.markbatterson.com/books/chase-the-lion/

• 31 Ways to Improve Your Life, by Scott Steward: https://scottsteward.com/merch/stewisms

• Scott Steward on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@therealprofessorstew

• The 2019 Chicago teachers strike: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/10/15/20915723/chicago-teacher-strike-2019-cps-ctu

 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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How do you learn web development without a computer, or without any electronic device? Sam Taylor wrote a book to help learners do just that. As a former middle school teacher and current tech worker, Sam wrote the newly released educational book titled The Coding Workbook, which intends to teach the basics of HTML and CSS, but with no computer required.  Hear the discussion about this new book, accessibility to STEM education, what teaching middle school science is like, and more.

 Related to this episode:  

• The Coding Workbook: https://nostarch.com/CodingWorkbook

• NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards): https://www.nextgenscience.org/

• Harvard CS50, Intro to Computer Science: https://online-learning.harvard.edu/course/cs50-introduction-computer-science

• JavaScript for Kids: https://nostarch.com/javascriptforkids

• Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/

• Sam Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samtaylor_css

 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Institute for middle and high school teachers.  Rosemary Kamei is the Chief Development and Innovation Officer of SVEF, and she talks about why SVEF piloted its CS Institute a few years ago and how it has been going through the pandemic.  She talks about how it aims to promote equity in CS education, across the digital divide and accounting for socioeconomics, race, and gender in the Silicon Valley community.

Related to this episode:  

• SVEF: https://www.svefoundation.org/

• SVEF CS Institute: https://www.svefoundation.org/computer-science                        

• California State Board of Education Content Standards for Computer Science Education: https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/computerscicontentstds.asp

• Elevate Math at SVEF: https://www.svefoundation.org/elevate-math

• CS for CA: https://csforca.org/

• SVEF Digital Equity: https://www.svefoundation.org/digitalequity

Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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Let’s make equations musical.  Instead of visualizing equations on a graph, let’s listen to them on the piano, merging all our math and music knowledge. You can make two-dimensional x-y math equations audible – or sonify them – by translating the x-values to time and the y-values to the keys of a piano.  If you can’t play them on the piano yourself, we can use the free web app Chordinates! by Pios Labs to do it instead.  Listen to the sound of coordinates, linear equations, polynomials, trigonometric functions, and random distributions of notes on the piano, and analyze their patterns. Then take the audio review quiz at the end, complete with extended creative and technical challenges.  Got your own reactions to this episode? Would love to hear your thoughts.

Related to this episode:  

• Chordinates! beta, a free web by Pios Labs: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/

• Coordinate plane, from Desmos.com: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/q8mwzeylbk

• HCI Beyond the GUI, book by Philip Kortum: https://www.amazon.com/HCI-Beyond-GUI-Nontraditional-Technologies/dp/0123740177/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241987101&sr=8-1

• Google nGram viewer, for analyzing the prevalence of the words “sonify” and “sonification”: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sonify%2Csonification&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Csonify%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Csonification%3B%2Cc0

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Mishaal Ashemimry is an aerospace engineer and pilot who, after working for major aerospace organizations, formed her own aerospace startup to design rockets for small, low-Earth orbit satellites. As a Saudi American, she got interested in the stars when she was young, looking up at the sky while visiting Saudi Arabia.  She describes many parts of her path in this career, including love of math, starting a business, being recognized as the first female aerospace engineer in the Gulf Cooperation Council, and her role as an Arabic-speaking STEM education social media influencer.

 Related to this episode:  

• Mishaal Ashemimry’s profile: https://www.mishaalashemimry.com/

• Encarta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encarta

• Zinc and hydrochloric acid reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4XITC225uk

• BattleBots TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BattleBots

• FIRST Robotics Competition: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

• NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html

• Raytheon Technologies: https://www.rtx.com/en

• NERVA program on nuclear rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA

• MISHAAL Aerospace: https://www.mishaalaerospace.com/home

• SBIR funding: https://www.sbir.gov/

• Article on Wired, SpaceX Engine Failure Claims Experimental Satellite: https://www.wired.com/2012/10/spacex-nasa-investigation/

• DOF (degree of freedom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degrees_of_freedom_(statistics)

• Mishaal’s YouTube channel on STEM, largely in Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/c/MishaalAshemimry

 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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STEM curriculum specialist Dr. Corey Hall shares tips and resources for teaching engineering effectively at the K-12 level in 2021, both during and beyond COVID.  Corey recommends teaching strategies and products based on her 24 years of experience in education, as a school librarian, middle school teacher, professor, and online teacher. She discusses 3D printing, lending libraries, virtual cloud-based robotics software, out-of-school STEM programs such as in 4-H, and more.

Related to this episode:  

• Dr. Corey Hall on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rchallway

• Dr. Corey Hall on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/library_doc/

• STEM Education Works: https://stemeducationworks.com/

• Zork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

• Sphero: https://sphero.com/

• Three Billy Goats Gruff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billy_Goats_Gruff

• AASL – American Association for School Librarians: http://www.ala.org/aasl/

• Microbit: https://microbit.org/

• What is a Bitmoji Classroom and How Can I Build One? https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/what-is-a-bitmoji-classroom-and-how-can-i-build-one

• Google Jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/

• Little Bits Fuse: https://fuse.littlebits.com/

• Snap Circuits: https://www.elenco.com/snap-circuits/

• Autodesk Tinkercad: https://www.tinkercad.com/

• Elecfreaks: https://www.elecfreaks.com/

• Teaching HTML/CSS Unplugged and Offline, with Sam Taylor: https://k12engineering.net/episodes/101

• Buildsmart Clubhouse: https://stemeducationworks.com/product/build-smart-clubhouse-curriculum/

• Flipgrid: https://info.flipgrid.com/

 Subscribe and find more podcast information at: http://www.k12engineering.net.  Support Pios Labs with regular donations on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pioslabs. You’ll also be supporting projects like the Engineer’s Guide to Improv and Art Games, The Calculator Gator, or Chordinates!  Thanks to our donors and listeners for making the show possible.  The K12 Engineering Education Podcast is a production of Pios Labs: http://www.pioslabs.com.

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Model railroading is uniquely primed for doing educational outreach today, says Stacey Walthers Naffah, President of Milwaukee-based Walthers.  Walthers is a major model railroading company, distributing and manufacturing products for hobbyists around the world.  Stacey discusses how the industry has a big opportunity to add to K-12 education, in history, science, technology, engineering, art, and math, whether it involves wifi-controlled trains or teaching kids to properly scale down 3D models.  She shares that Walthers is looking for more ideas about how to partner with educators.

 Related to this episode:  

• Walthers: https://www.walthers.com/

• Profile of Stacey Walthers Naffah: https://onmilwaukee.com/market/articles/milwaukee-talks-stacey-walthers-naffah.html

• Contact Walthers with ideas: ideas@walthers.com

• Family business programs, Northwestern: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/executive-education/individual-programs/executive-programs/fambiz.aspx

• NSTA blog post https://www.nsta.org/resources/building-steam-model-railroads

• World’s Greatest Hobby nonprofit organization: http://wgh.trains.com/

• Discovery World, Milwaukee: https://www.discoveryworld.org/

• Rail transport modelling scale standards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_transport_modelling_scale_standards

• Hiroshi Kado, owner of Kado, runs contest for high schoolers

• Walther’s National Model Railroad Build-off contest: https://trains.walthers.com/hubfs/Walthers_How_To_Submit.mp4

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What do young people think about STEM fields today?  Michigan STEM educator Danielle Boyer talks about her perspective as a recent high school graduate who teaches robotics to many young K-12 students.  She talks about her lower-cost robot platform Every Kid Gets a Robot, her coloring books for STEM representation, young people’s college fears, and also her views on accessibility and diversity in engineering.

Episode cover art photo courtesy of Danielle Boyer.

Related to this episode:  

• Danielle Boyer at the STEAM Connection: https://www.steamconnection.org/

• Every Kid Gets a Robot: https://www.steamconnection.org/robotics

• Fischer Unitech camps: https://www.fisherunitech.com/future-manufacturing-camp/

• ESP32 development board: https://randomnerdtutorials.com/getting-started-with-esp32/

• The STEAM Sisters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steamsisters/

• Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/

• Rachel York, Community Manager at SolidWorks: https://forum.solidworks.com/people/1-3U2N7GF

• MythBusters: https://go.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/

• Coloring books from the STEAM Connection: https://www.steamconnection.org/books

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES): https://www.aises.org/

• FIRST Robotics: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

• STEMedia: https://www.stemedia.org/

• Past episode “Digital Pop Culture for STEM” with Dr. Nehemiah Mabry of STEMedia: http://www.k12engineering.net/episodes/48

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Distributed systems rule much of new technology today, as software programs exist across multiple computers, servers, phones, and smart devices. How can students learn to program these systems? Start with a visual programming environment, says Dr. Akos Ledeczi from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Ledeczi is an electrical and computer engineer who researches distributed systems and how to teach computer science. His research group created the NetsBlox block-based programming platform, based on SNAP and similar to Scratch, but it also has capabilities built-in for distributed or parallel programming.  Ledeczi discusses the NetsBlox platform, their curriculum for teaching high schoolers, and their Roboscape project to link NetsBlox with robotics and cybersecurity education.

Episode cover art photo by Alex Knight from Pexels.

Related to this episode:  

• Dr. Akos Ledezci: http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/akos

• MATLAB software: https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html

• Scratch language: https://scratch.mit.edu/

• Snap language: https://snap.berkeley.edu/

• Netsblox: https://netsblox.org/

• Web APIs list from MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

• Roboscape: https://netsblox.org/cybersecurity

• Parallax ActivityBot 360: https://www.parallax.com/product/32600

• Article on Anki going out of business, from The Robot Report: https://www.therobotreport.com/anki-addresses-shutdown-ongoing-support-for-robots/

• C2STEM curriculum – https://c2stem.org/

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The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not be as accessible to the average school. Led by graduate students doing the latest in physics research, The Physics Circus is getting back into live shows again.  Joseph Ziegel is one of the coordinators of the group, along with Jordan Zesch, and Joseph describes their mission of young scientists spreading more love of science.

 Related to this episode:  

• The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin: https://web2.ph.utexas.edu/~circus/

• Should a Person Touch 200,000 Volts? A Van de Graaff generator experiment! From the Jefferson lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubZuSZYVBng

• How To Make Pickles Glow, from TKOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFefJyQhw0c

• The Physics Circus YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSPOGbgbw7D4ogjV5_UpFxA

  Opening music by LogicMoon: https://freesound.org/people/LogicMoon/sounds/617295/

Closing music by JetSmith88: https://freesound.org/people/JetSmith88/sounds/206065/

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Engineer Ian Bernstein talks about his startup’s newest consumer robot released by Misty Robotics: Misty II. Based on what he learned developing his previous educational robot Sphero, Ian and his team created Misty II to be widely customizable, programmable, and full of potential functionality. The robot may be on the pricier side, and Ian says that it’s worth it. He also discusses why he thinks robotics can promote education and how he got interested in robotics when he was young.

Related to this episode:  

• Misty II robot at Misty Robotics: https://www.mistyrobotics.com/

• Misty II offer for educators: https://www.mistyrobotics.com/educators-and-students/

• WALL-E: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/

• Baymax from “Big Hero 6”: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2245084/

• Sphero: https://www.sphero.com/

• Sphero SPRK: https://www.sphero.com/sprk-plus

• Lego Mindstorms: https://www.lego.com/en-us/mindstorms

• Misty Robotics community: http://community.mistyrobotics.com

• Blockly: https://developers.google.com/blockly/

• Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/

• JavaScript: https://www.javascript.com/

• South by Southwest (SXSW): https://www.sxsw.com/

• Apple IIe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_II_series

• Arduino: https://www.arduino.cc/

• SLAM algorithms for mapping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping

• Logo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

• BASIC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC