Upstate SC STEM Collaborative Meeting - August 2015

Founding PartnersBosch ~ Fluor ~ GE Power & Water ~ Michelin North America

The Upstate SC STEM Collaborative focuses on workforce development by engaging

students and communities. The Collaborative pursues STEM opportunities and possibilities

that positively impact the culture and future economic success of the Upstate and SC.


AGENDA Welcome & Introductions Exploring Collaborative Culture When we meet again . . . Dismissal


PARTNER to do more together

than anyone can do alone.


October 5 - 6, 2015

2015 Education Summit"Diversity in STEM In and Out of

School"

Columbia Metropolitan Convention CenterColumbia, SC

http://www.sccoalition.org/registration.html


PARTNER

INSPIRE where interests and opportunities collide.


PROPEL interests, attitudes,

confidence and skills.

This School’s Got STEM!

CurryLabs of Clarendon School District Two

Contest Information

• Video Entries Submitted: February 22 – March 4

• Judging to Narrow Videos: March 5 – 6

• Video Voting: March 7 – March 20

• Prizes– 1st -

• Up to $1000• Attend either iMAGINE

Upstate or Charleston STEM Festival

• Mueller’s Spaghetti lunch and tour

– 2nd: $250– 3rd: $100



ENGAGE a diverse, talented, and

energetic community of learners and leaders.

STEAM Tech Teams• 32 Volunteers• 3 teachers• 5 administrators• 3 schools• 60 students

Reid Becker (954) 649-9730)[email protected]

STEAM TECH TEAMS

OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTEFURMAN UNIVERSITY

What is E-Nable?

• Group of Volunteers, helping children who are missing fingers or hands due to war, disease, or birth defects by printing 3D prosthetic hands from crowd-sourced designs.

• Low-cost solutions for children with upper limb deficiencies. This is crowdsourcing in its purest form: volunteers who build on each other’s ideas and share them with the rest of the world for the greater good.

• More than 1,400 people with prosthetics at no cost over the past year.The 3-D printed prosthetics are particularly useful for children. They often grow out of prosthetics and can't afford replacements every few months or years. The 3-D versions also can be lighter and easier to use — and come in their favorite color!

In particular, the group is interested in building alliances with aid workers in war-torn regions, disaster zones, and impoverished communities where inexpensive and easily attainable prosthetics

Our RecipientsSpring 2015

David and Caeden

David• Age: 9 Location: Anderson, SC• Theme: Bumblebee Transformer • Gettys Middle School (6th and 7th Graders)

Caeden (arm & hand)• Location: Buffalo, NY Age: 3 years • Hughes Academy, Greenville, SC (7th & 8th Graders)• Caeden’s story and why everyone was crying

Our Client Schools

May – August 2015

• May 6 - Hand assembly training for OLLI members at Furman

• May 14 - Gettys school gives hand to 9 year old David

• May 17 - iT2PI Expo at Furman• May 22 - Hughes Academy presents arm to

3 year old Caeden • May 29 - Ralph Chandler hand assembly• June 25 - Roper Mt. Science Center 3D Camp• July 9 – Met with As-Sabeel Academy• July 25 - Children’s Museum Build it Day

with WYNIT• July 8 - Children’s Museum Cosmos Camp• Aug. 7 - Children’s Museum Innoskate with

Computer Source

Fall 2015 and beyond

• August - Greenville Early School• August - NEXT High School• September - NewTech@ Mann• Follow up meetings with old and new schools• Roper Mt. Science Center STEAM day• Help Gettys finish arm for assistant principal• Children’s Museum of the Upstate STEAM day• Children’s Museum work with teachers• Greenville News Business and Technology

Story in the works• June 2015 enablingthefuture.org got a

$600,000 grant from google. Goals are established.

• August 2015 eNABLE established e-NABLE Educators’ Exchange • e3STEAM. Goals are established.

Other School Based Programs

• Hand Failure Analysis & Design• Quadcopter fabrication and design• How a Computer Really, Really, Really Works• Investigations in Light & Thermal Imaging• Basic Computer Programming on a Cell

Phone• Investigations in Raspberry Pi• We Seek Collaborating Teachers

http://enablingthefuture.org/http://STEAMtechTeams.com

[email protected]

http://steamtechteams.com/

http://steamtechteams.com/

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ENGAGE a diverse, talented, and energetic community of learners and leaders.

2015-16 MEETING SCHEDULE

October 15, 2015 December 3, 2015February 11, 2016

March 31, 2016May 24, 2016

Founding PartnersFluor ~ GE Power & Water ~ Michelin North America

Innovation distinguishes

between a leader and a

follower.Steve Jobs