Founder and CEO of @unruly_studios - an ed-tech start-up empowering the next generation of digital innovators and creative leaders through active STEM play.

Cat Warren is the New York Times bestselling author of What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science, and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World. Cat grew up in the country in Oregon, worked as a newspaper journalist for many years across the United States, and now writes, teaches at North Carolina State University, and plays with dogs.

Jennifer George is a clothing designer, author, and Rube Goldberg’s granddaughter (yes, that Rube Goldberg). She is also the legacy director of Rube Goldberg Inc, an organization dedicated to helping extend the legacy of Rube’s work. Each year they sponsor a Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, an event where students of all ages
compete with machines that they have imagined, designed and created in a fun and competitive forum. The competitions encourage teamwork and out-of-the-box problem solving, in a fresh learning environment and level playing field. All you need is a good Imagination and a pile of junk!

Alan Small grew up in Fort Worth Texas, and started taking Science Classes at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History when he was three years old.  He took classes there until the age of fourteen, then the museum hired him to work as an assistant teacher! Alan worked there for 15 years learning how to hunt bugs, catch lizards, feed snakes, make liquid nitrogen ice cream, lick dinosaur bones, and dissect dead cars.

The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) is a nonprofit organization that serves educators interested in the use of technology in education. On this episode of the STEM Everyday podcast Chris chats with ISTE Connect Network Leaders Julianne Ross-Kleinmann, Jessica Shupic, and Charles Randolph.

Host Chris Woods continuous his chat with Bill Van Loo, Technology & Engineering Teacher at A2 STEAM in Ann Arbor Michigan. 

As a technology, engineering and design educator who is passionate about empowering kids, Bill is currently employed as the Technology & Engineering Teacher at A2 STEAM at Northside, a brand-new K-8 program that is part of Ann Arbor Public Schools. Bill runs the STEAM Lab, the school’s space for hands-on learning through the STEAM subject areas (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math). As a teacher, he values hands-on projects, cross-curricular learning experiences, and use of the design process to show students how to solve problems.

After several years of focusing on teaching math and science as a classroom teacher, Tori transitioned into the role as specialist teacher for a new STEAM lab.

Laurie has been working in technology and education for almost 30 years. She holds a Masters Degree from Cleveland State University in Curriculum and Foundations with a focus on Technology Education, and a Bachelors in Business from The Ohio State University. Currently, Laurie is a student in the Penn Graduate School of Education, Applied Computational Thinking Program. 

Andrew is a lifelong learner who enjoys thinking about creating a culture of thinking and creation in all whom he works with. How do we approach any level of learner and help them to develop a passion for curiosity? He teaches in an elementary school working on building curiosity and creativity. Currently he is a Project Lead the Way teacher/coach to help others see how STEAM can be incorporated into a student’s day.

Alice Aspinall is a passionate high school mathematics teacher in Windsor, Ontario. She loves spending time with her husband and two children reading books, playing math games, and exploring the outdoors. Alice is a strong advocate of the growth mindset. She is continually looking for ways to build young people’s confidence in math and to make math fun, challenging, and satisfying. Her innovative lessons and her dedication in the classroom have made a positive impact on her students’ attitudes toward math. Her YouTube channel, “MrsALovesMath,” exemplifies her commitment to her students’ learning. 

Alice believes everyone can learn math and she is on a mission to prove it.

STEM and Gifted Education going great together.

Mandi Figlioli is an Instructional Designer, K-12 Administrator, MakerED Advocate, and Author of Miss Makey and the Magic Bin.  In 2014, She was introduced to the maker movement by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.  Making revived her childhood imagination and sparked a desire to create.  Miss Makey and the Magic Bin evolved out of sharing my passion with others, hoping to inspire them to embrace their inner maker.  

Ben Kidd- Co-founder & Creative Director

Company launched in January 2016

Makers of Great White Shark 360, Virtuali-Tee & Operation Apex

Jorge Valenzuela has served as an educator for the past 15 years and holds both computer science and administrative credentials. He coaches hundreds of educators- both face to face and virtually in Computer Science, Backwards Design Planning, Project-Based Learning (PBL) and the internationally acclaimed Engineering by Design curriculum.

She's a physicist and geophysicist specializing in disasters -- tsunami, earthquakes, asteroid impacts -- pretty much all the heart-pounding, doom-riddled science.  As a science communicator, she's creative and passionate about this glorious universe around us.

Stephen says it took him about 40 years to decide what he wanted to be. He was a subcontractor for Southern California Edison, in construction, specialized in wooden boat construction for museums, worked in restaurants. Most of that was geared around engineering.  That is what prepared him to teach The Maker Class.

Kasey graduated from Binghamton University in the spring of 2017 with a B.S. in Integrative Neuroscience.  She served as an undergraduate research assistant in a neurophysiology lab where she gained experience handling rats and performing stereotaxic surgery for the purposes of electrode implantation necessary for chronic studies of the taste system. She also served as a student lab assistant at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia over college breaks, for Dr. Beverly Davidson lab, that focuses on genetic therapeutics for neuromuscular diseases such as Huntington's disease.  She intends to pursue her PhD in biomedical research and further study neurodegenerative diseases.

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