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.
Ready to make AI fun, creative, and accessible for all ages? In AI Story Studio, students in grades 3–12 use AI tools to dream up sequels to favorite stories and bring them to life in 3D virtual worlds. Along the way, they learn how AI works, how to use it responsibly, and even how to start programming with AI—no experience needed. Come see how storytelling becomes a launchpad for AI literacy, student voice, and some wildly creative world building.
Hannah Walden, Director of Curriculum at Hello World CS, has over two decades of experience working in education. Prior to her current role, Hannah oversaw the curriculum team at CodePath, managing the rollout of five industry-aligned pathways. At Code.org, Hannah led the 6-12 curriculum... Read More →
Thursday October 9, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm 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.
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
Let's stir up spooky delight in this hands-on Halloween STEM fright! Participants craft haunted houses with lights that flicker, trap doors that drop, and googly-eyed ghost-bots that sneak by. While building, we'll explore engineering, energy, circuits, and motion—and explore literacy, math, and tech extensions for deeper learning. Participants leave with a haunted prototype, inspiration and the resources to bring seasonal, cross-curricular creativity into their classrooms.
Friday October 10, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am EDT Capitol
Ditch the laptops and grab the craft supplies—we’re making monsters! In this hands-on K–5 workshop, educators team up to explore CS concepts like input, processing, and output by designing and coding custom creatures. The project blends creativity, teamwork, and tech-free CS instruction, with cross-curricular links to literacy and life science. Leave with classroom-ready strategies and the inspiration to bring STEM to life—no coding background needed!
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 →
Friday October 10, 2025 9:10am - 10:10am EDT Capitol
Tinkercad is often used for creating 3D objects that can be 3D printed. But it can also be used to teach basic electronics all the way up to coding Arduinos in a virtual environment. This session will be a quick run-through of the four units I cover with middle school students each year. This is a hands-on session and participants should be ready to play along in their own Tinkercad account.
Why should we be building globally competent students & what the heck are the SDGs? Bring yourself, a device to connect to the internet, and a curious mind as we discuss globally competent students and the SDGs. You'll leave with tools including the framework, examples from a Fullbright HS classroom, links and resources, and more. Engaging students in relevant and glocal opportunities is an amazing way to teach any subject: including computer science! This will be an interactive session.
