Teachers and Students will be together for the first part of the day.
9:00 Welcome & Intro, background on Girls in Tech
9:10 Guest Speakers For each speaker AEIOU Protocol:
1. Lorimer STEAM Team-students & Teacher Jill Quirk Theme: Leadership Q&A 2. Chestermere High Engineering Futures Students & teachers:Sarah Douglas and Scott Sealand Theme: Hands on, engaging Q&A 3. Calgary Makerspace: Steven Pilz, Kerry Harmer, Peter McIntosh Theme: Community Partner, Real World Q&A 10:00 Knowledge Commons-AEIOU post its for each 10:10-10:30 Break Peruse whiteboard to gather ideas, inspiration 10:25 Mobile Escape Room Teachers in Wildrose A 11:00 Making Stuff Available within RVS: Stations
12:00 Lunch (together with students) 12:30 Planning Tools: Hack Mindset Elements of girls in tech-what do you need to consider in your context? Tool: Identity Status Quo at your school: aspects that you want to change How will you DISRUPT the status quo and collect feedbacK? Quick Wins: What are the short term goals you have for you initiative? Keep the timeline short, even though you may have long term goals of changing established practices at your school, how can you start small? 12:40-1:30 Collaboration Time/Tool work time 1:30 GASP in groups of 3 1:45 Teachers share their ideas with students and get feedback 2:00 Departures |
MakeHers in Wildrose B 11:00 Discussion, facilitator writes responses on whiteboard
11:15 Books: Ada Twist Scientist, Rosie Revere Engineer What stands out about these books? How are these books different from classic fairy tale books for kids? Post its to Window 11:30 Instant Challenge Matrix 12:00 Lunch with teachers 12:3--1:45 Stations
1:45 Sharing day with Teachers, provide feedback on teacher ideas 2:00 Departure |