!

“ . . .under-represented students of color and young women

are the most important to attract and retain. . . ”

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2012 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Youth Teachers and College Mentors

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!IMPACT

Ten years

Over 3,000 Boston youth

“STEM Education Laboratory”

National recognition as “exemplar” STEM program

Change the Equation*

*Consortium of 100+ high tech corporations & their independent evaluators

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Diverse perspectives & experiences uniquely poised to revitalize STEM!

Fresh approaches to

problem-posing & problem-solving

Insights & innovations that expand STEM’s relevancy and reach in a globally-connected world

. . . not just numbers. . .

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Ignite interest through more encounters with people who have

a passion for STEM

HOW?

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Ignite interest through more encounters with people who have

a passion for STEM

More “active learning” to encourage “discovery” & uncover

STEM’s creative possibi l it ies

HOW?

!

Ignite interest through more encounters with people who have

a passion for STEM

More “active learning” to encourage “discovery” & uncover

STEM’s creative possibi l it ies

Cultural change in teaching and learning communities to make

STEM education more “welcoming”

HOW?

!

Reaching teenaged youth one by one is essential . . .

. . . but insufficient!

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Social innovation is necessary!

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Social innovation is necessary!

Youth & community development approach

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!Social innovation is necessary!

Youth & community development approach . . . with historical success in Boston . . . using multiple levels of role models

. . . where youth . . .

!

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!Create a Critical Masss

of 3-5,000 Boston youth

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!Create a Critical Masss

of 3-5,000 Boston youth

creatively engagedd in the latest

engineering, technology & science tools,

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!Create a Critical Masss

of 3-5,000 Boston youth

creatively engagedd in the latest

engineering, technology & science tools,

who can catalyzee

cultural changee In their communities

!

!Create a Critical Masss

of 3-5,000 Boston youth

creatively engagedd in the latest

engineering, technology & science tools,

who can catalyzee

cultural changee In their communities

about what is possible

to achieve with STEMm

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Youth Teachers

14-18 years old

High School

STEM Camp Participants

8-13 years old

Elementary & Middle School

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College Mentors

Former Youth

Teachers

Studying STEM

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Creating a

Boston STEM Pipeline

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!NUMBERS (each year): 1 Higher Education Partner MIT Media Lab 1 Hub at Archdale Community Center

4 College Mentors (Former Youth Teachers)

20+ Community Organizations 30 High School Youth Teachers 400+ Elementary and Middle School Youth

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July

24 hours per week

BUILDING

August

24 hours per week

TEACHING !

Program

Timeline

April - June

4 hours every Saturday

LEARNING !

!!

!

South End

Technology Center

@ Tent City

MIT Media Lab

Lifelong Kindergarten Group

High Low Technology Group

Center for Bits and Atoms

Future of Learning Group

LEARNING: April - June

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LEARNING

Hands-on project-based learning

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!LEARNING MODULES

Computer Programming

Scratch, Modkit, C++

Physical Programming

Pico, Arduino, Lilypad

Digital Design & Fabrication:

Libre, Inkscape, Sketch-Up, Eagle

Lasercutter, Vinylcutter, Modela Milling, 4’x6’ Router, Embroidery

Energy Alternatives:

Generating Electricity, especial ly Alternative Energies

Graphic Design:

GIMP

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!BUILDING: July

Confidence and competence in skills Small groups of 3-4 build a project

Use at least 3 of the 5 technologies learned

Solve a problem in their community

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Experiencing Engineering Design Process:

Egg Drop Challenge Egg Drop Challenge

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Design Design

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Design Prototype

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Design Document: Wiki

www.learn2teach.pbworks.com

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!TEACHING: August

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Teams of 2-4 youth teachers

Travel by public transportation to

20+ community organizations

Teach 8-12 elementary and middle

school youth

1 ! - 2 hour activities

2-4 days a week for 3-4 weeks

FREE to community organizations

Summer

STEM

Camps

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Teaching Computer

Programming with Scratch

“Human Computing”

Using Kinesthetic Warm-up Activities

to introduce concepts

Ninja Game used to teach stop motion

for creating animations with

computer programming

Stickers. . . a way to get word out to families & community about what youth can accomplish with

STEM

“I am a computer programmer!

I made a cartoon animation with

Scratch!”

!

Power to all the People! Learn about how renewable and nonrenewable energy generate electricity.

Build your own squishy circuit that lights up colored LEDs and makes a buzzer buzz.

Power it with a battery (nonrenewable energy) and a solar cell (renewable energy)

Squishy Circuit Monopoly

What is a electric

circuit?

Play to get all the

parts for your

squishy circuit !

Alternative Energy Matchup

Renewable &

nonrenewable

energy

generate

POWER!

1

2

3

Build Squishy Circuit

with battery & solar panel

4

Measuring voltage

for battery & solar panel 3

Solar Squishy Circuit

“Expression Pins” Activity

Digital Design & Fabrication

Teeshing Ins & Outs of Physical Programming!!! Make four inventions and discover how sensors and actuators work!

Program the mini- computer that controls them!

1. Play the PICO Cricket Game!

4 . W indmi l l

2 . Red L igh t

Green L igh t

3 . A larm

C lock

6 . Reac t ion Game

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Physical Programming

with PICO Crickets

“Robot Draw” Building a robot with an Arduino and programming it to draw a shape of their choosing

“Retro-Portrait” Activity

“Superhero Me” Graphic Design

Activity

!!

Project Expo

for family, friends & community

project demonstrations

potluck

Wheel-up Chair Gordon Guerra, Cedric Mendes, Naeem Wilson

Efficient wheelchair design, inspired by a video game, that allows people to cross over curbs. Digital design & fabrication was used for the wheelchair frame and gear train. Several kinds of motors

are incorporated into the physical programming that uses an Arduino platform (programmed with Modkit).

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Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is a program of the South End Technology Center @ Tent City, a Timothy Smith Computer

Learning & Education Center.!Our purpose is to enable people to become producers of knowledge and sharers of ideas. For the past

ten years, Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn has offered over 300 teenaged youth an awesome educational experience, meaningful

work, and an opportunity to serve their communities. These youth teachers have taught creative science and technologies in after-

school and summer programs to over 3000 elementary and middle school children from over 30 Boston community organizations.

The aim of Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn is to create a critical mass of Boston youth engaged in creative technologies and sciences. These youth teachers not only influence change in the lives of

Boston youth and their neighborhoods; they also catalyze cultural change in their schools and communities about what is possible to

achieve in science, technology, engineering and math.

The youth teachers you meet today spent every Saturday from April to June LEARNING emerging technologies and sciences at the MIT Media Laboratory and the South End Technology Center.

This summer, the youth teachers have been BUILDING and TEACHING. They worked over 20 hours a week for 6 weeks to

bring their new inventions and ideas to life. At the same time, these youth teachers have been sharing what they learned with 400 Boston elementary and middle school youth in free summer

technology and science camps.

Welcome Friends and Family to the

Youth Teacher Project Exposition

Saturday August 18, 2012 1:00 pm through 4:00 pm

We invite you to enjoy our innovations and experience our success!

South End Technology Center @ Tent City 359 Columbus Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02116

617.578.0597!

Many thanks for their support and resources to:

Timothy Smith Network ! MIT Media Lab Center for Bits & Atoms, Lifelong Kindergarten Group & High Low Technology Group !

Boston Centers for Youth and Families ! Barr Foundation ! Museum of Science, Boston ! Harold Whitworth Pierce Charitable Trust ! Paul & Edith Babson Foundation! Hyams Foundation ! Massachusetts Cultural Council ! Boston Private Industry Council

! Martin Luther King Jr. Summer Scholars Program ! Touch 106.1 FM Radio Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ! Boston

Youth Fund ! ABCD Summer Works ! Cognizant Make the Future ! Boston Parks and Recreation ! Glenville Terrace

AutoBody ! Modkit ! Domenic J. Basile ! Suffolk County District Attorney’s Asset Forfeiture Community Reinvestment Program ! The

Archdale Community Center Council ! American Society of Mechanical Engineers ! Mel King Institute for Community Building

! United for a Fair Economy & so many individual supporters!

2012 Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn Projects! SuperFlash \

Adeola Adeniyi, Rafael Baez, Fernando Burgos, Korlu Jallah

A hat that charges a phone during the day using solar power and lights up in the dark. It incorporates physical programming with e-Textile Lilypad/Arduino technology (programmed with Modkit), electronic

circuitry, solar panels, and computerized embroidery.

Fashion Tech Julia Alexis, Safwa Ali, Davonna Dinkins, Santos Gutierrez,

Olivia Murphy

Lovingly-sewn transforming dress that changes style & lights up in response to sound. It incorporates physical programming with e-Textile LilyPad/Arduino technology (programmed with Modkit)

using light & touch sensor inputs; motor, LEDs, & el wire outputs.

iBike

Gerard Potts, Hassan Sakhta, Jalen Wiggins, Joshua Yu

A energy-alternative bicycle-powered generator that incorporates electronics (recycled power inverter, motor, car battery) creative woodworking (recycled stand), digital fabrication (safety box &

sign) and power generation (recycled bicycle).

NightLife Stairs Sarah Suazo, Shameya Vass, Dominique York

Staircase that lights up and plays music to help those with hearing and sight challenges. It involved extensive woodworking and

electrical wiring, input pressure and light sensors and output LED lights and sound. An Arduino board was used as the physical

programming platform (programmed with Modkit).

Musical Basketball

Christelle Benjamin, Neuza Gomes, Chanti Heredia, Elias Joseph

Basketball Court that senses if you have put the ball through the basket and responds with music. Innovative touch sensors are

inputs to the Arduino platform (programmed with Modkit). The output is a speaker. The project also incorporates computer

programming platform Scratch and a Scratchboard.

iGuide

Somtoo Ebele, Renic Franklin, James Macglashing, Sule Rene-Carthy

A robot mounted with a screen that displays information about the South End Technology Center @ Tent City and gives a tour. The

physical programming uses the Arduino platform with several motors as outputs. The computer programming was done with the Scratch Platform. The robot frame was made using digital design

& fabrication and incorporates recycled toy parts.

Appreciation for our community organization partners:

!SETC Core Program Camfield/Lenox Estates

Castle Square Tenants Association Catholic Charities @ St. Peters

CharlesNewtown Co-op Curry Room @ Theroch Housing

Festival Betances Keylatch Program

Leahy-Holloran Community Center Massive Dragons

Salvation Army – South End Shelburne Community Center South End Technology Center

Joseph M. Tierney Learning Center Tobin Community Center

Vine Street Community Center

Roslindale Hub BCYF Archdale Community Center BCYF Gallivan Community Center

BCYF Mildred Ave. Community Center BCYF Roslindale Community Center ROCKS! @Flaherty Pool @ Mildred

Gratitude to those who helped our youth teachers:

DIRECTOR: !Mel King

STAFF: Diana Arguello Ed Baafi!!!Susan Klimczak

!!Amon Millner !!Donna Parker

COLLEGE MENTORS: Beckett Dunning!!!Phi Ngo!!!!!

Stacy Ogierumwense !!!David

Solomon!!!Alex Olivier!!

VOLUNTEER EDUCATORS: Shirronda Almeida ! Patrick

Conrad ! Andrea Cuadra ! Tien

Dao ! Micah Eckhart ! Champika Fernanda ! Mark Greenlaw ! Eva Kerr ! Pamela

King ! Michael King ! Ming Kuo ! !Sherry Lassiter ! Wanjiku Mwangi ! Colin Reisdorf!!! Rica Rose Roque Adrian Santiago !Jason Talbot ! Janice Ward ! Susanna Yee

! Ashley Yu

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Designing

a great

Activity

!

Maker Education

Youth Development

Constructionism

Reality Pedagogy

Pedagogy of Love & Change

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!Maker Education !

“Creates opportunities for young people to make, and, by making, build confidence, foster creativity, and spark interest in STEM, the arts— and learning as a whole.” - Maker Education Initiative

!

!

!Constructionism !

People learn best by designing and making things

For the greatest learning to happen, people need to explain their design process & what

they have made to others (simplistic definition)

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! YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: “Technologies of the Heart” (Mel King)

High expectations Accessible near-peer learning with multiple layers of role models who look like youth Focus on developing creative confidence and self esteem through tangible mastery Ethic of cooperation & community service

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Reality Pedagogy !

(Chris Emdin)

Co-generative Dialogue

Youth co-generate ideas about how to

make learning environment better

Co-teaching Youth co-teach, as experts on how to

deliver the information Cosmopolitan

Integrate ways that youth communicate

outside & bring some inside

Context Bring people & culture from

communities in ---where youth live

has value

Content Can’t get to this without learning environment ---

youth need voice, agency, platform