LEGO Engineering Symposium - Presentations

LEGO Engineering Symposium Presentations LEGO Engineering Symposium Presentations Powerful STEM I:  Setting the Stage. (Wednesday, January 9th from 8.40 – 10.00) Merredith Portsmore, CEEO "Looking at the Concept of POWERFUL From Multiple Angles" Brian Gravel, CEEO "Rethinking How Students Represent Ideas in STEM Activities" Andy Bell, National Instruments "The History, Rationale and Power of the NXT-G software developed by National Instruments" Lars Nyengaard, LEGO Education, Denmark "Aspirations for STEM education" Chris B. Rogers, CEEO “Innovating STEM in college” Powerful STEM II: Experiences from the Classroom. (Wednesday, January 9th from 1.00 – 2.00) Birger Brevik, Akershus University College, Norway “Bringing Engineering Work Processes to the Classroom” Barbara Bratzel, Shady Hill School, Boston "The Rewards and Challenges of Using Open-Ended Projects in STEM Classrooms”. Claude Baumann, Luxembourg "Teaching Trigonometry with LEGO Robots" Cathy Helgoe, LEGO Educational Division, USA “Recommendations from Teachers Using Hands-on Materials for STEM” Powerful STEM III: Lessons Learned from Experiences and Research (Thursday, January 10th from 8.30 – 10.00) Fred Martin, University of Massachusetts Lowell "iCODE: Internet Community of Design Engineers" Robbie Berg, Wellesley College "The Softer Side of STEM" Joel Sumner, National Instruments “Getting Started With the LabVIEW Toolkit for MINDSTORMS NXT” Kristen Bethke, CEEO “Transforming an Elementary Science Unit with a LEGO Engineering Project” Powerful STEM IV:  Supporting the Implementation of LMS – based STEM (Thursday, January 10th from 1.00 – 2.00) David Cavallo, MIT Media Lab “The OLPC Project and its Potential for STEM Learning” David L. Vernier, Vernier Software & Technology “Using The New Vernier NXT Adapter” Laura Allen, Vision Education & Media “The Power of an Integrated Curriculum” Ethan Danahy, CEEO “Building Cohesive Learning Units With RoboBooks” Reports from the Development Labs (Friday, January 11th from 8.30 - 10.00) CEEO facilitators  What's Next? (Friday, January 11th from 10.00 - 11.30) Torben Jessen, LEGO Education Denmark "A first glance at NXT-G version rev2" Chris B. Rogers, CEEO "What's next from the CEEO?"