Orange County High School Esports League Championship
Esports Workshops for OC Students
OC STEM is excited to partner with the Orange County High School Esports League for their inaugural season! Through this partnership, we are helping in getting the word out about an exciting set of esports workshops! High School Esports League Workshops Don't waste your weekend! Join UCI for a series of workshops to improve [...]
Raspberry Jam, Anyone?
Spread the love of coding to your family! Require to have a go with the fortune giochi nuovi slot machine gratis. 100+ Raspberry Pi ‘Jams’ are taking place throughout the world this weekend! Join us for a free family event to learn about coding and play with the Raspberry Pi [...]
Member Spotlight – OC STEM Coordinator
Kristin Roher is the STEM Coordinator for the OC STEM Initiative. Her work includes the design, development, implementation and coordination of several outreach programs and events, including Girls Maker Academy, Mobile FABLab, APPCamp and FABCamp. This past summer, her work involved piloting the APPCamp 2.0 program: a week-long introduction into text-based programming through Python [...]
OC STEM Hub – STEM Training
This year, our STEM Implementation Trainings changed slightly to allow for an ongoing cohort of participants to build on the content and experiences of previous meetings. This year we are focusing on Project Based Learning (PBL) and STEM! In the total of the year, we will have six meetings and two coaching and observation [...]
OC STEM Hub – Community of Practice
We have had two Communities of Practice Meetings so far this year and are looking forward to our upcoming meetings in 2018! In our first meeting, we focused our discussion on the needs of the programs to guide our discussions throughout the year. The group competed in a BreakoutEDU activity, where they had to [...]
Lead STEM Practitioners 2017-2018
Through a partnership between the Orange County Department of Education and Orange County STEM Initiative, the Lead STEM Practitioner (LSP) Network includes triads of established and emerging teacher leaders from ten Orange County school districts. Our 30 amazing practitioners represent over 470 years of teaching experience in K-12 education! District teams were selected through an [...]
Ecosystem Institute – November 2017
Teams gathered for their last Ecosystem Institute session of the 2017 year! The main focus of this day was Instructional Practices & Teacher Qualifications. Teams had the chance to attend various workshops that demonstrated instructional practices and strategies for teaching. All workshops were circuit-based and adapted to 5 main learning levels: High School – [...]
Ecosystem Institute – October 2017
This session's focus was workforce development, where OC STEM had the opportunity to arrange for six local businesses to host small groups to learn more about their industry. During the site visit, Ecosystem members had the opportunity to learn about the latest industry innovation, work environments and skills that are needed for employment in STEM-based [...]
SXSW EDU 2018 Selection
(AUSTIN, Tex. – Oct. 18, 2017) – STEM Learning Ecosystems is proud to announce its selection as presenters at SXSW EDU 2018. The panel discussion, Not “Random Acts of STEM”: Planned Career Success, will be part of the Employability track. The discussion will feature Gerald Solomon, Co-Founder of STEM Learning Ecosystems; Gregory Washington, Dean [...]