Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski Interactive Keynote Workshop Expanding Your Horizons Conference 2010

Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski provided an interactive keynote presentation for parents attending the Expanding Your Horizons Conference held at UCF, Feb. 2010. Participants conducted a wide-array of hands-on-minds-on investigations to explore science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) concepts.
Participants observed:
Calloway hexagonal golf balls, compound eyes of horse shoe crab, kaleidoscopes, bird feather, model airplane wings, seeds, spiral shells, model cars, and more. Participants made connections to the structures, design, and mathematical patterns found in nature to how man has used these models in modern-day inventions, engineering, architecture, etc.. Connections to biomimicry were made throughout the presentation. The goal of the Expanding Your Horizons organization is to expose middle-school female students to science, technology, engineering, and careers by attending a one-day conference. Girls attend hands-on STEM workshops, parents also attend workshops designed for the parent audience. http://www.women.cecs.ucf.edu/eyh/
Expanding Your Horizons Organization website:
http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org
Dr. Diana Wehrell-Grabowski is available for interactive keynote presentations and teacher training nationwide, check out her website at: http://www.drdianateachertraining.com
and
http://www.drdianakeynotespeaker.com

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Education

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• teacher training video
• STEMeducationteachertraining
• science experiments
• femalesandscience
• engineering
• professional staff development
• parent education

[drdianascience]

Thanks Joe. Not professionally video taped, relied on a volunteer. Great group of participants, they were totally immersed in the moment.

[JoeCubicle]

Great video and talk Doc. I've a degree in BioTech and still remember botany class where we were taken out on campus with a conifer identification sheet and ID'd many conifers. It gave me a great love and appreciation for Nature's Construction.