Past Years of SEPT

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Sunday, June 26, 2016

Early check-in option for BioBuilder participants

Sunday, June 26, 2016

1:00pm

2:00pm
Sunday, June 26, 2016

BioBuilder Workshop

Natalie Kuldell, Department of Biological Engineering

Sunday, June 26, 2016

2:30pm

5:30pm

BioPrimer No. 10: Engineering Golden Bread

Poster: Eau that Smell

Card: Are you a "Synthusiast"?

Flyer: 2016 Workshops
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Check-in for Sunday arrivals (non-BioBuilder)

Sunday, June 26, 2016

3:00pm

6:00pm
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Welcome Dinner and Introductions

Sunday, June 26, 2016

6:00pm

7:00pm
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Campus Tour

Sunday, June 26, 2016

7:00pm

8:00pm
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Copa America Final soccer match (optional)

Sunday, June 26, 2016

8:00pm

10:00pm
Monday, June 27, 2016

Who are you? Who are we? Why are we here?

Rik Eberhardt of the MIT Game Lab and Carole Urbano of the Education Arcade

Monday, June 27, 2016

9:00am

10:00am
Monday, June 27, 2016

Bringing the Why and the Who into the Chemistry Classroom

Cathy Drennan, Professor, Departments of Biology and Chemistry

Monday, June 27, 2016

10:00am

11:00am

PowerPoint Presentation – Drennan, June 27, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016

Hey Atoms: What Have You Done For Me Lately?

Jeffrey Grossman, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Monday, June 27, 2016

11:00am

12:00pm

Presentation Slides – Grossman, June 27, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016

Fishbanks: Using simulations to teach systems thinking and sustainability

Jason Jay, Lecturer and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Monday, June 27, 2016

1:00pm

4:00pm

Presentation Slides – Jay, June 27, 2016
Monday, June 27, 2016

Clouds, Chemistry, and Climate Change

Daniel Cziczo, Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Monday, June 27, 2016

4:15pm

5:15pm

Presentation Slides – Cziczo, June 27, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Much More Than STEM

Woodie Flowers, Professor Emeritus, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

9:00am

10:00am
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

DIY Medical Technologies

Anna Young, Lecturer/Researcher, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

10:00am

11:30am
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Google Tour, Making & Science

David Saff, Apps for Education, Google

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

12:30pm

2:00pm
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

What I do at MIT including Woodpeckers and How They Avoid Brain Injury

Lorna Gibson, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

2:15pm

3:15pm

Presentation – Gibson, June 28, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

MIT BLOSSOMS: Interactive Video Lessons for High School Science and Math Classes

Richard Larson, Director, Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals and Professor of Engineering Systems

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

3:15pm

4:15pm
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Studying the moral mind with MRI

Rebecca Saxe, Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

4:30pm

5:30pm

Presentation Slides – Saxe, June 28, 2016

Reading – original scientific article by Josh Greene (published in Science in 2001)

Reading – newspaper article about the Green (2001) paper

Reading – "supplementary materials” from the Green (2001) article
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

“Hands on Physics” – Gray Group (Red Group – see afternoon session)

Ed Moriarty, Instructor, Edgerton Center

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

8:30am

11:30am
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

MIT Museum

MIT Museum

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

11:30am

1:30pm
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

“A New Twist in Genetics Instruction: Manipulatives for Teaching Cell Processes” – Gray Group (Red Group – see morning session)

Drs. Kathy Vandiver, Director, and Amanda Mayer, Outreach Coordinator, Community Outreach Education and Engagement Core, CEHS

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

1:30pm

4:30pm

Presentation Slides I – Vandiver, June 29, 2016

Presentation Slides II – Vandiver, June 29, 2016

Agenda AM – Vandiver, June 29, 2016

Agenda PM – Vandiver, June 29, 2016

Flyer – Atoms and Molecules

Flyer – DNA and RNA

Website and software resources

Additional media

Review material
Thursday, June 30, 2016

MIT Ed Tech: OpenCourseWare, MITx, and K-12 Videos

Sarah Hansen (OCW), Lisa Eichel (MITx), and Elizabeth Choe (K-12 Videos)

Thursday, June 30, 2016

9:00am

10:00am
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Knots and numbers

Haynes Miller, Professor, Department of Mathematics

Thursday, June 30, 2016

10:15am

11:15am

Presentation Slides – Miller, June 30, 2016
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Mathematical Games

Isabel Vogt, PhD student, Department of Mathematics and Director of MIT PRIMES Circle

Thursday, June 30, 2016

11:15am

12:15pm

Presentation Slides – Vogt, June 30, 2016
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Pizza Lunch with Thursday session leaders

Thursday, June 30, 2016

12:15pm

1:00pm
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Project Guts and StarLogo Nova

Irene Lee, Research Scientist, Scheller Teacher Education Program

Thursday, June 30, 2016

1:00pm

4:00pm
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Sparking the Design Process

Rik Eberhardt of the MIT Game Lab and Carole Urbano of the Education Arcade

Thursday, June 30, 2016

4:00pm

4:30pm
Thursday, June 30, 2016

McNamara Design Challenge

Rik Eberhardt of the MIT Game Lab and Carole Urbano of the Education Arcade

Thursday, June 30, 2016

6:00pm

8:00pm
Friday, July 1, 2016

LIGO and the Detection of Gravitational Waves

Matthew Evans, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

Friday, July 1, 2016

9:00am

10:00am
Friday, July 1, 2016

Quantum Jitters in the Sky: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations

David Kaiser, Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics

Friday, July 1, 2016

10:15am

11:15am

Presentation Slides – Kaiser, July 1, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2016

Nanoscale technology for a complex immune system

Alex Shalek, Assistant Professor, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

Friday, July 1, 2016

11:30am

12:30pm