steam
Working in the Office of Government Relations at the Rhode Island School of Design, I have the pleasure and opportunity to work on various projects extracurricularly. One of these projects is STEAM, an initiative to bridge the gap between STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) learning and STEAM (adding the Arts). By integrating art and design with the sciences, the potential for innovation and invention exceeds exponentially.
01/2012
This wintersession, I am spending a lot of quality time in the Office of Government Relations. Below is a glimpse of the current project I am working on with Sarah Pease. We're still working out the logistics, but there is a lot of string, pins, and systems mapping involved. More to come on this one as it develops...
06/2011
Most recently, June 22nd I fled to Washington, DC to help lead RISD's first ever Congressional Briefing. Speakers at the briefing included Congressman Jim Langevin, RISD President John Maeda, Adam Bly of Seed Media Group, Randy Cohen of American for the Arts, Martin Storksdieck of the Board on Science Education and the National Research Council, as well as Brian K. Smith of Continuing Education at RISD.
At the Congressional Briefing, we released the latest House Resolution to promote funding for arts education as part of STEM learning, as well as RISD's very own STEAM cards. As a research assistant, I worked under Babette Allina, RISD Director of Government Relations, and alongside Arthur Yidi and Peter Simon to help host and run the event. Other research assistants who aided in Providence during the days counting down to the event include Sarah Pease and Annie Wu.
Please contact your state representatives and ask them to co-sponsor H.Res 319 if you believe, like we do, that art + science = innovation. Click here to learn more on showing your support.
A post by John Maeda announcing the event can be found here and below are two short videos from the event as released by Congressman Langevin's office and RISD.
STEM to STEAM: Washington from STEM to STEAM on Vimeo.
01/2011
One of the other STEAM initiatives we launched was a two day workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation and RISD called "Bridging STEM to STEAM." The workshop, which took place on RISD's campus, brought together 60 scientists, artists, engineers, designers, thinkers, and innovators to come and contemplate what science and art and design thinking have to offer their respective fields.
As a research assistant working on the workshop, I helped organize the event and various activities taking place on both days. By instigating conversations and raising questions, I worked both as facilitator and participate, bridging the gap between STEM and STEAM thinking.
An article summarizing the event can be found here. Below is a slideshow of images from both days.
As with an amazing event full of rich dialogue and new ideas comes a strong follow up of documentation and compilation of data. I headed up the compilation process alongside Arthur Yidi, Peter Simon, and Andreas Nicholas. With Arthur focusing on the website, I focused on content as we continue to work on collecting and condensing the gross amount of data resulting from the workshop.
Lynne Carruthers graphically recorded the event with long rolls of white paper and markers.
Participant Idris Mootee did a blog post on the event here.
RISD President and also participant John Maeda wrote on his experience here.
01/2012
This wintersession, I am spending a lot of quality time in the Office of Government Relations. Below is a glimpse of the current project I am working on with Sarah Pease. We're still working out the logistics, but there is a lot of string, pins, and systems mapping involved. More to come on this one as it develops...
06/2011
Most recently, June 22nd I fled to Washington, DC to help lead RISD's first ever Congressional Briefing. Speakers at the briefing included Congressman Jim Langevin, RISD President John Maeda, Adam Bly of Seed Media Group, Randy Cohen of American for the Arts, Martin Storksdieck of the Board on Science Education and the National Research Council, as well as Brian K. Smith of Continuing Education at RISD.
At the Congressional Briefing, we released the latest House Resolution to promote funding for arts education as part of STEM learning, as well as RISD's very own STEAM cards. As a research assistant, I worked under Babette Allina, RISD Director of Government Relations, and alongside Arthur Yidi and Peter Simon to help host and run the event. Other research assistants who aided in Providence during the days counting down to the event include Sarah Pease and Annie Wu.
Please contact your state representatives and ask them to co-sponsor H.Res 319 if you believe, like we do, that art + science = innovation. Click here to learn more on showing your support.
A post by John Maeda announcing the event can be found here and below are two short videos from the event as released by Congressman Langevin's office and RISD.
STEM to STEAM: Washington from STEM to STEAM on Vimeo.
01/2011
One of the other STEAM initiatives we launched was a two day workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation and RISD called "Bridging STEM to STEAM." The workshop, which took place on RISD's campus, brought together 60 scientists, artists, engineers, designers, thinkers, and innovators to come and contemplate what science and art and design thinking have to offer their respective fields.
As a research assistant working on the workshop, I helped organize the event and various activities taking place on both days. By instigating conversations and raising questions, I worked both as facilitator and participate, bridging the gap between STEM and STEAM thinking.
An article summarizing the event can be found here. Below is a slideshow of images from both days.
As with an amazing event full of rich dialogue and new ideas comes a strong follow up of documentation and compilation of data. I headed up the compilation process alongside Arthur Yidi, Peter Simon, and Andreas Nicholas. With Arthur focusing on the website, I focused on content as we continue to work on collecting and condensing the gross amount of data resulting from the workshop.
Lynne Carruthers graphically recorded the event with long rolls of white paper and markers.
Participant Idris Mootee did a blog post on the event here.
RISD President and also participant John Maeda wrote on his experience here.