ACTEM2025: Full Schedule

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9:40am EDT

LEGO Learning: Inspiration Stations

Thursday October 9, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am EDT

Get hands-on with innovative LEGO-based learning stations! Join us to explore creative classroom applications using LEGO BricQ kits and LEGO robotics for engineering and design challenges. Rotate through building stations with ready-to-implement lesson plans. Walk away with engaging, student-tested activities that promote critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.

Speakers

Michaela Lamarre

Eighth Grade Science Teacher, Gorham Middle School/Gorham School Department

Thursday October 9, 2025 9:40am - 10:40am EDT
Capitol

Design Thinking

2:10pm EDT

Bot Safaris: Engineering Meets Endangered Species

Thursday October 9, 2025 2:10pm - 3:10pm EDT

Capitol

This playful, hands-on workshop blends STEM, storytelling, and environmental science to build core competencies and creativity. Research an endangered animal, design its habitat, build an eco-bot, and set it free in your nature preserve! Educators leave with their own bot, plus the knowledge, resources, and inspiration to bring this engaging project to their classrooms right away.

Speakers

Marci klein

curriculum design, 3DuxDesign

3DuxDesign's cardboard-based STEM kits and associated online project-based learning resources are ideal for your k-12 students. Our materials focus on using the design thinking process and hands-on prototyping to solve real-world challenges for a deeper, more authentic learning experience... Read More →

Thursday October 9, 2025 2:10pm - 3:10pm EDT
Capitol

Design Thinking

9:10am EDT

How Might We Do All the Things? Design Thinking w EdTech K-12

Friday October 10, 2025 9:10am - 10:10am EDT

Cumberland

How might we solve the novel? How might we address the climate mess? How might we wrangle the angles? During this interactive design sprint, learn how adopting a design thinking mindset, applying a learner-friendly design process, and integrating purpose-driven digital tools can amplify classroom assessments from dumpster projects to authentic innovations. Bring the devices and apps that bring you and your learners joy.

Speakers

Dan Ryder

Director of Design and Innovation, Community Regional Charter School

Friday October 10, 2025 9:10am - 10:10am EDT
Cumberland

Design Thinking