The Elementary STEM Showcase has adapted the exciting, quick-fire format of the popular Pecha Kucha presentations for this year’s STEM20: Virtual Event. This "social show-and-tell event" brings together leaders in STEM education as presenters who offer 15 slides for 20 seconds each. Each five-minute presentation will offer teaching strategies and resources in the best practices in STEM education for our youngest learners. Featured materials come from celebrated classroom educators, authors of NSTA Press books, award-winning books from the Best STEM Books list, and strategies from the NSTA preK–5 journal, Science & Children.

NGSS connections to student experiences will be highlighted during each Pecha Kucha presentation. Participants will interact with presenters about STEM investigations and resources through a Q&A session at the end of the time block. Presentations will be passionate, funny, informative, and inspirational. Join us for this new format and learn from this fast paced, energy-filled experience and leave with ideas to use with your students and colleagues.

The Elementary STEM Showcase will be presented three times:

• 1:09 PM—focus on the Upper Elementary STEM Classroom
• 2:47 PM—focus on the Lower Elementary and Early Childhood STEM Classroom
• 5:15 PM—focus on Informal Education Support for the STEM Classroom

SPEAKERS:
Amanda Glover (Museum of Science, Boston: Boston, MA), Emily Morgan (Picture-Perfect Science: West Chester, OH), Christine Anne Royce (Shippensburg University: Shippensburg, PA), Judith Boyle (Divide School District #4: Divide, MT), Rebecca Kurson (Collegiate School: New York, NY), Patricia Newman (Children's Book Author & Speaker: Carmichael, CA), Collin Doruff (Isidore Newman School: New Orleans, LA)

The Elementary STEM Showcase has adapted the exciting, quick-fire format of the popular Pecha Kucha presentations for this year’s STEM20: Virtual Event. This "social show-and-tell event" brings together leaders in STEM education as presenters who offer 15 slides for 20 seconds each. Each five-minute presentation will offer teaching strategies and resources in the best practices in STEM education for our youngest learners. Featured materials come from celebrated classroom educators, authors of NSTA Press books, award-winning books from the Best STEM Books list, and strategies from the NSTA preK–5 journal, Science & Children.

NGSS connections to student experiences will be highlighted during each Pecha Kucha presentation. Participants will interact with presenters about STEM investigations and resources through a Q&A session at the end of the time block. Presentations will be passionate, funny, informative, and inspirational. Join us for this new format and learn from this fast paced, energy-filled experience and leave with ideas to use with your students and colleagues.

The Elementary STEM Showcase will be presented three times:

• 1:09 PM—focus on the Upper Elementary STEM Classroom
• 2:47 PM—focus on the Lower Elementary and Early Childhood STEM Classroom
• 5:15 PM—focus on Informal Education Support for the STEM Classroom

SPEAKERS:
Jason Innes (Kinderlab Robotics, Inc.: Waltham, MA), Belle Akers (Convent & Stuart Hall's Schools of the Sacred Heart: San Francisco, CA), Ron Grady (NOLA Nature School: New Orleans, LA), Anne Lowry (Aleph Academy: Reno, NV), Alexandra Morgan (Boulder Journey School: Boulder, CO), Katie Morrison (University Child Development School: Seattle, WA), Lauren Zander (Isidore Newman School: New Orleans, LA)

The Elementary STEM Showcase has adapted the exciting, quick-fire format of the popular Pecha Kucha presentations for this year’s STEM20: Virtual Event. This "social show-and-tell event" brings together leaders in STEM education as presenters who offer 15 slides for 20 seconds each. Each five-minute presentation will offer teaching strategies and resources in the best practices in STEM education for our youngest learners. Featured materials come from celebrated classroom educators, authors of NSTA Press books, award-winning books from the Best STEM Books list, and strategies from the NSTA preK–5 journal, Science & Children.

NGSS connections to student experiences will be highlighted during each Pecha Kucha presentation. Participants will interact with presenters about STEM investigations and resources through a Q&A session at the end of the time block. Presentations will be passionate, funny, informative, and inspirational. Join us for this new format and learn from this fast paced, energy-filled experience and leave with ideas to use with your students and colleagues.

The Elementary STEM Showcase will be presented three times:

• 1:09 PM—focus on the Upper Elementary STEM Classroom
• 2:47 PM—focus on the Lower Elementary and Early Childhood STEM Classroom
• 5:15 PM—focus on Informal Education Support for the STEM Classroom

SPEAKERS:
Lauren Angelone (Xavier University: Cincinnati, OH), Elizabeth Barrett-Zahn (National Science Teaching Association), Elizabeth Dethloff (Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM: Katy, TX), Godwyn Morris (Dazzling Discoveries / Skill Mill NYC: New York, NY), Richard Schaen (Wyoming City Schools: Cincinnati, OH), Brooke Shoemaker (Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center: Washington, DC), Prabakaran Soundararajan (BOON-dah LLC: Tampa, FL), Janet Mannheimer Zydney (University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH), Tom Lauwers (Birdbrain Technologies, LLC: Pittsburgh, PA)

Join us for this demo show by the Kentucky Science Center. You won't want to miss this display of favorite science demonstrations that are brought to students and families everywhere!

See robots in action during this event! Educators from around the world will bring their robots to virtually demonstrate their uses in a showcase format. This is an interactive event where attendees wanting to know about robots can ask questions and collect ideas for their own classrooms. Together, we'll establish a professional learning network of educators using robots to engage students. 

SPEAKERS:
Alex Crooks (World Robot Olympiad Foundation: Taylorsville, NC), Amy Slotnick (Slingshot Films: New York, NY), Anna Elzer (iRobot Corp.: Bedford, MA), Gary Garber (Garber STEM Consultants: Melrose, MA), Tom Lauwers (Birdbrain Technologies, LLC: Pittsburgh, PA), Ben Smith (Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12: New Oxford, PA)

Join us for this demo show by the Kentucky Science Center. You won't want to miss this display of favorite science demonstrations that are brought to students and families everywhere!

Computer Science education is growing and CS teachers are often singletons in their districts. Join us for an edcamp/unconference–style session to discuss topics of your choice in small groups and build your network!

TAKEAWAYS:
Specific concrete takeaways for issues specific to Computer Science education Connect with like-minded educators for future collaboration Choose from topics such as: CS for All, Curricula/PD, Teaching Practices and Methodologies, Building your District's Program, CS Pathways, Licensure Requirements, Standards and more!

SPEAKERS:
Kerri Murphy (Norton High School: Norton, MA)

See robots in action during this event! Educators from around the world will bring their robots to virtually demonstrate their uses in a showcase format. This is an interactive event where attendees wanting to know about robots can ask questions and collect ideas for their own classrooms. Together, we'll establish a professional learning network of educators using robots to engage students. 

SPEAKERS:
Ruth Farmery (Prospect Hill Academy Charter School: Cambridge, MA), Anna Elzer (iRobot Corp.: Bedford, MA), Tom Lauwers (Birdbrain Technologies, LLC: Pittsburgh, PA)

See robots in action during this event! Educators from around the world will bring their robots to virtually demonstrate their uses in a showcase format. This is an interactive event where attendees wanting to know about robots can ask questions and collect ideas for their own classrooms. Together, we'll establish a professional learning network of educators using robots to engage students. 

SPEAKERS:
Ben Smith (Lincoln Intermediate Unit 12: New Oxford, PA), Gary Garber (Garber STEM Consultants: Melrose, MA), Lisa Freed (iRobot Corp.: Bedford, MA), Alex Crooks (World Robot Olympiad Foundation: Taylorsville, NC)

Join us for this demo show by the Kentucky Science Center. You won't want to miss this display of favorite science demonstrations that are brought to students and families everywhere!

Highly acclaimed author Rebecca Skloot spent more than 10 years doggedly uncovering the truth about the life, death, and ultimate “immortality” of a poor black tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks. Part detective story, part scientific odyssey, and part family saga, her phenomenal book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is inspired by the life of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer cells—code named HeLa—were taken without her knowledge in 1951. Rebecca is currently writing a new book on the often controversial topic of animal research and ethics through a deeply personal story about our complex relationships with animals—their roles in our lives, and in science—and the humans who battle over their fates, and as a result, our own.

SPEAKERS:
Rebecca Skloot (Journalist, Teacher, and Author: Berkeley, CA), Brian Ogle (Brevard Zoo: No City, No State)

Join us for this demo show by the Kentucky Science Center. You won't want to miss this display of favorite science demonstrations that are brought to students and families everywhere!