Join us for the Elementary STEM Showcase and leave with a headful of ideas for the best practices in STEM education. The Elementary STEM Showcase is an exciting and quick-fire format event that uses the popular Pecha Kucha presentation method. 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 presenters are celebrated classroom educators, informal education centers, NSTA leaders, 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 this live Q&A session. 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.

Don't forget to watch the three Elementary STEM Showcase Prerecorded Videos before attending this Q&A session.

SPEAKERS:
Sylvia Vardell (Texas Woman's University: Denton, TX), Janet Wong (Pomelo Books: Princeton, NJ), Ashley E. Lewis Presser (EDC Center for Children and Technology: New York, NY), Belle Akers (Convent & Stuart Hall's Schools of the Sacred Heart: San Francisco, CA), Jolynn Asato (San Jose State University: San Jose, CA), Jenn Brown-Whale (Howard County Public School System: Ellicott City, MD), Lauren Burrow (Stephen F. Austin State University: Nacogdoches, TX), Kristin Cook (Bellarmine University: Louisville, KY), Richard Cox, Jr. (Atrium Health), Chrissy Cross (Stephen F. Austin State University: Nacogdoches, TX), Elizabeth Dethloff (Robert R. Shaw Center for STEAM: Katy, TX), Jen Dobson (Wyoming City Schools: Cincinnati, OH), Rebecca Garelli (Arizona Science Teachers Association), Ron Grady (NOLA Nature School: New Orleans, LA), Melanie Harper (The NEED Project: Manassas, VA), Dr. Dieuwertje Kast (USC Joint Educational Project: Los Angeles, CA), Tom Lauwers (Birdbrain Technologies, LLC: Pittsburgh, PA), Anne Lowry (Aleph Academy: Reno, NV), Janet Mannheimer Zydney (University of Cincinnati: Cincinnati, OH), Godwyn Morris (Dazzling Discoveries / Skill Mill NYC: New York, NY), Katie Morrison (University Child Development School: Seattle, WA), Sara Nelson (Iowa State University: Ames, IA), Patricia Newman (Children's Book Author & Speaker: Carmichael, CA), Christine Preston (The University of Sydney: Sydney, 0), Richard Schaen (Wyoming City Schools: Cincinnati, OH), Laura Schneider (St. Mary's College of Maryland: Saint Mary's City, MD), Nancy Smith (Heatherstone Elementary School: Olathe, KS), Kathleen Tate (American Public University System: Charles Town, WV), Ashley Townsend (Oak Grove Primary School: Prairieville, LA), Julie Travaglini (Allegheny Land Trust: Sewickley, PA), Annette Venegas (Kent School District: Kent, WA), Rob Wallace (NSTA: Kenner, LA), Jennifer Williams (Isidore Newman School: New Orleans, LA), Manisha Hariani (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Ben Koo (The Lawrence Hall of Science: Berkeley, CA), Sumer Seiki (University of California Riverside Extension: Riverside, CA)