The K12 Engineering Education Podcast

Modern robotics can interact with the human body in newer, innovative ways, using flexible materials and compliant actuators. Dr. Holly Golecki, Ph.D., wants to teach young people all about it, recently sharing her team’s K-12 curriculum in soft robotics in The Science Teachermagazine. A professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Golecki teaches bioengineering and engineering design to undergraduates, while also research applications of materials engineering to bioengineering and engineering education. She discusses her pathway to her current focus on engineering education, and her ideas about increasing the diversity of students who can access engineering at younger ages by way of soft robotics. Related to this episode: https://www.hollygolecki.com/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19434871.2023.12290283https://softroboticstoolkit.com/https://bioengineering.illinois.edu/https://drexel.edu/engineering/academics/departments/materials-science-engineering/https://www.sandia.gov/https://www.vexrobotics.com/competitionhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/803170https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXNNjtK5hp8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyVGpRjG5-0https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCghttps://twitter.com/hgoleckihttps://softroboticstoolkit.com/competition/requirementsSubscribe 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. Music by seth_makes_sounds under a Creative Commons 0 License.

Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ, her startup that’s developing cultivated beef brisket. She explains how cultivated meat – also known as “cultured meat” or “lab meat” – is real meat that avoids animal slaughter by being grown in a bioreactor. Katie discusses her motivation for her work at BioBQ, including her Texas roots, love of barbecue, interest in ecology, and being vegan. She also highlights partnerships with the cattle industry, investors, and many different fields in science and engineering. Related to this episode: • BioBQ: https://www.biobqing.com/ • “Cultivated meat bioprocess design” article: https://gfi.org/science/the-science-of-cultivated-meat/deep-dive-cultivated-meat-bioprocess-design/ • “Eat Just to Open Asia’s Largest Cultivated Meat Facility in 2023”: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-10/eat-just-to-open-asia-s-largest-cultivated-meat-facility-in-2023 • “Upside’s cell-cultured chicken is first to receive FDA blessing for its production method”: https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/16/upside-foods-cell-cultured-meat-fda/ • Good Food Institute (GFI): https://gfi.org/ • New Harvest: https://new-harvest.org/ • IndieBio incubator in San Francisco: https://indiebio.co/ 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. Music by timouse under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

As part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, cybersecurity engineer Nicole Bushong shares essential cybersecurity habits and tools for keeping organizations and individuals safe, as well as hot tips for getting into the many parts of this critical industry. Learn about data privacy, compliance, coding, hacking news, degrees and certifications, multi-factor authentication, and more. Related to this episode: • Cybersecurity and Being Human: https://k12engineering.net/episodes/80 • IR (incident response) • Terraform: https://www.terraform.io/security • GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) • DevSecOps (development, security, and operations) • Cybersecurity Awareness Month is October: https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity-awareness-month • Cambridge Analytica scandal: https://www.wired.com/story/cambridge-analytica-facebook-privacy-awakening/ • DeSantis accused textbooks of ‘indoctrination.’ Here’s what he meant: https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/05/09/florida-banned-textbooks-math-desantis/ • Pen tester (penetration tester) • Hack the Box: https://www.hackthebox.com/ • SANS courses: https://www.sans.org/cyber-security-courses/ • UK police arrest teenager suspected of Uber, GTA 6 hacks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/uber-hack/ • KnowBe4 / Kevin Mitnick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick • GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/ • HouSecCon: https://www.linkedin.com/company/houseccon • StaySafeOnline: https://staysafeonline.org/ • OWASP: https://owasp.org/ 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.

The Solve for Tomorrow design competition from Samsung is starting up again, and three guests join the podcast to explain how it works, and why schools and businesses should invest in K-12 STEM education. George Dowdy led his students at Porter High School to win the most recent competition, while Autumn Dowdy led her students at the same school to win before that. George and Autumn, an engineering education power couple, talk about what it’s like teaching engineering today and how the Solve for Tomorrow competition complements their existing curriculum. Ann Woo is the Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Samsung in the US, and she explains why Samsung funds or support the K-12 education pipeline with professional development and other programs like this. Related to this episode: • Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition: https://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/ • Porter High team wins national STEM competition for second year: https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/Porter-High-team-wins-national-STEM-competition-17192932.php • Project Lead The Way: https://www.pltw.org/ • MindSpark Learning: https://www.mindspark.org/ • Porter High School Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/porterhs_spartans/?hl=en 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.

Amy Pirzada started My Coding Place as an educational business focused on teaching coding to kids in Austin. But she soon expanded to teach chess, game design, 3D modeling, 3D printing, and more technical topics in problem-solving to wider audiences. She talks about the mission of her entrepreneurial business, how to teach kids programming effectively, the right tech tools for teaching kids of different ages, and her goals for the business and possibly a future nonprofit. Related to this episode: • My Coding Place: https://www.mycodingplace.com/ • Gamemaker: https://gamemaker.io/ • Blender: https://www.blender.org/ • mBot by Makeblock: https://www.makeblock.com/steam-kits/mbot • Hansol Hong of Robolink, on a past episode: https://www.k12engineering.net/episodes/74 • Roblox: https://www.roblox.com/ • Lua: https://www.lua.org/ • Girlstart nonprofit, on a past episode: https://k12engineering.net/episodes/21 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.

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/ 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation has been running robotics programs for youth for years, including the widespread global competitions sponsored by VEX Robotics. Dan Mantz is the CEO of the REC Foundation, leading this nonprofit through the pandemic, after previously working in industrial engineering and robotics for over twenty years. He talks about the REC Foundation’s mission, how they changed their competitions during COVID, and their newer programs in manufacturing education and workforce development. Related to this episode: • REC Foundation: https://www.roboticseducation.org/ • FANUC America: https://www.fanucamerica.com/ • Rack Solutions: https://www.racksolutions.com/ • VEX Robotics: https://www.vexrobotics.com/ • Northrup Grumman Foundation: https://www.northropgrumman.com/corporate-responsibility/corporate-citizenship/northrop-grummans-philanthropic-initiatives/ • RECFoundation YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/RECFoundation • Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Institute: https://arminstitute.org/ • p500 robot to paint cars https://www.robots.com/robots/fanuc-p-500 • Engineer’s Guide to Improv & Art Games on Audible.com: https://www.audible.com/pd/B09BDMF9DD/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-270162&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_270162_rh_us 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.

Math is fundamental to engineering education and other disciplines. That’s part of why Richard Rusczyk wants to teach kids harder math than they often see in school. As the CEO of Art of Problem Solving, he wants to challenge more young people mathematically, hopefully giving them an earlier chance to achieve math mastery. He talks about national math competition culture compared to sports culture, starting his online education company, and strategies to improve access to deeper math education in K-12. Related to this episode: • Art of Problem Solving (AoPS): http://artofproblemsolving.com/ • Mathcounts: https://www.mathcounts.org/ • National Society for Professional Engineers: https://www.nspe.org/ • US National Mathematical Talent Search: https://www.usamts.org/ • Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAMS): https://www.beammath.org/ • AoPS Academy: https://aopsacademy.org/ • Project Euler: https://projecteuler.net/ • Chordinates!: https://www.pioslabs.com/chordinates/ • @pioslabs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pioslabs 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.

Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teaching and learning the subject easier. They based it on their own experiences with 3D printing, learning it as beginners, coming from finance and mobile games industries, and then teaching CAD for 3D printing in after-school programs in Hong Kong and the USA. They talk about their book, The 3D Printing Cookbook, and share practical tips for making 3D printing work for young kids. Related to this episode: • The 3D Printing Cookbook, Tinkercad edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736498282?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 • The 3D Printing Cookbook, Fusion 360 Edition: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736498266?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 • Preview the book(s): https://the-3d-printing-cookbook.netlify.app • Tinkercad: https://www.tinkercad.com/ • Fusion 360: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview • AutoDesk Education: https://www.autodesk.com/education/home • How to Choose the Right 3D Printing Service: https://manufactur3dmag.com/how-to-choose-the-right-3d-printing-service/ • CubeSats: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cubesats/overview 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.

Mechanical engineer Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short studies robot brains, having previously worked in industry and academia for commercial toy companies, NASA, Texas A&M, and more. She also advocates for diversity and inclusion in education and STEM for trans people, including her time founding the Sexual Identity Forum at Baylor University. Dr. Short talks about one of her latest projects finding trans women engineers who have made pivotal contributions to the world. Related to this episode: • Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short on Twitter: https://twitter.com/The_Ada_Rhodes • Sphero Robotics: https://sphero.com/ • SPRK+ robot: https://sphero.com/products/sphero-sprk-plus • BB8: https://sphero.com/pages/legacy-products • Baylor Student Activists Appeal to NCAA: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/07/gay-rights-activists-ask-ncaa-intervene-baylors-lgbtq-policies • Gamma Alpha Upsilon at Baylor University: https://twitter.com/baylor_gay • Susan Calvin from Isaac Asimov’s Robot stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin • Totally Trans podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/totally-trans-searching-for-the-trans-canon/id1543571717 • Lynn Conway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway • VLSI, very large-scale integration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Scale_Integration • Sophie Wilson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Wilson • ARM computer processor architecture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture • Danielle Bunton Berry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Bunten_Berry • M.U.L.E. video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.U.L.E. • Dr. Bryony Dupont: https://mime.oregonstate.edu/people/dupont • Angelica Ross: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelica_Ross • TransTech Social Enterprises: https://www.transtechsocial.org/ • Ashawna Hailey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashawna_Hailey 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.

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.

The pandemic has spurred teachers like Amanda Hough to teach CAD remotely, but how do you do that if students don’t have the hardware to run resource-heavy CAD software? Amanda uses cloud-based CAD platform OnShape, and her students run it in a web browser, no installs needed. She talks about her experience switching over to OnShape this year, its place in education even when the pandemic is over, and how she got into STEM education in the first place as a career-changed from marine biology. Related to this episode: • Amanda Hough’s email: ahough@mpspk12.org • Amanda Hough Twitter @amandahough6: https://twitter.com/amandahough6 • Mashpee Educator Named State STEM Teacher of the Year: https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/news/mashpee-educator-named-state-stem-teacher-of-the-year/article_919d8ed2-7fcd-5bb8-b717-ae7bcab92dc1.html • VEX Robotics competitions: https://www.robotevents.com/robot-competitions/vex-robotics-competition • Marine Biological Laboratory: https://www.mbl.edu/ • MTELs: https://www.mtel.nesinc.com/ • Sketchup: https://www.sketchup.com/ • PTC Creo Parametric: https://www.ptc.com/en/products/creo/parametric • OnShape: https://www.onshape.com/en/ • Autodesk Fusion360: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/overview • BOSEbuild Speaker Cube: https://www.bose.com/en_us/support/products/bose_speakers_support/bose_portable_speakers_support/bosebuild_speaker_cube.html • Autodesk TinkerCAD: https://www.tinkercad.com/ • Dassault Systemes Solidworks: https://www.solidworks.com/ • ClearTouch: https://www.getcleartouch.com/for-education/ • Screencastify: https://www.screencastify.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.

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.

The education system can change top-down, or bottom-up. Author Suzanne DeMallie wrote “Can You Hear Me Now?” – a book about how parents and teachers might change our schools from the bottom-up. She draws on her own experiences in Baltimore County Public Schools as an elementary math teacher from 2011 to 2019, a parent of children in BCPS, and an advocate for sound enhancement technology in classrooms across the country. She also talks about how COVID has affected her opinions on testing, 1-to-1 device policies for elementary schools, and more. Related to this episode: • Suzanne DeMallie: https://suzannedemallie.com/ • Can You Hear Me Now?: https://suzannedemallie.com/book • Improving Classroom Acoustics (ICA): A Three-Year FM Sound Field Classroom Amplification Study: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED463640 • Common Core: http://www.corestandards.org/ • PARCC: https://osse.dc.gov/parcc • UT-Austin won't require SAT or ACT scores for 2022 applications due to COVID-19: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/25/ut-austin-texas-sat-act-application/ • STAAR: https://tea.texas.gov/student-assessment/testing/staar/staar-released-test-questions 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.

LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of design and discovery in engineering. Dr. Russell Dupuis is one of the engineers behind LEDs, and he recently was one of five winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for his work in this technology. Dr. Dupuis explains his contribution to creating thin-film electronics necessary for LEDs, starting from his university days in Illinois, and he also discusses its implications for the future. He currently is a professor of electrical engineering at Georgia Tech. This is a joint episode with The K12 Engineering Education Podcast and Engineering Word Of The Day. Related to this episode: • Dr. Russell Dupuis: https://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff-directory/russell-dean-dupuis • Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: https://qeprize.org/ • Dr. Nick Holanyak, Jr: https://ece.illinois.edu/about/directory/faculty/nholonya • Dr. M. George Craford: https://www.nae.edu/128635/Dr-M-George-Craford • Dr. Isamu Ishikawa: https://www.nae.edu/128633/Dr-Isamu-Akasaki • Dr. Shuji Nakamura: https://materials.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/shuji-nakamura • Texas Instruments: https://www.ti.com/ • Rockwell International: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_International • Dr. Harold Manasevit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_M._Manasevit • MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapor deposition): https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/metal-organic-chemical-vapor-deposition • SpaceX launches 60 more satellites for its Starlink service on the heels of opening up access: https://techcrunch.com/2021/02/16/spacex-launches-60-more-satellites-for-its-starlink-service-on-the-heels-of-opening-up-access/ • The Martian: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3659388/ • p-n junctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%E2%80%93n_junction • epitaxy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitaxy • UIUC Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering: https://ece.illinois.edu/ • Development and future of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes: UV-LED will replace the UV lamp: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0268-1242/29/8/084004/meta • PhoneSoap: https://www.phonesoap.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.

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.