LEGO® Serious Play® for Teens: Imagineering STEM from the Learners Perspective 

In this hands-on, minds-on STEAM workshop, students will be challenged with defining STEM and what makes it enjoyable and interesting to them. Unleashing the power of their imagination, students will create and construct individual models using LEGO® Serious Play® materials and workshop methodology. Students will collaborate to develop a group landscape model from their individual models. As part of this work, they will build a collective definition of what is an ideal STEM program. The workshop will culminate in a presentation of their work where students each tell the story of their group landscape.

Megan Oteri is the founder and CEO of Brick Scholars, a mobile STEAM lab offering programs for people of all ages to brick and learn. As an advocate for playful learning, she believes people learn best through play and when they are in a state of flow and optimally challenged in meaningful and purposeful work. She is passionate about education and stays astride of the shifting paradigms of what makes children, teens and adults engaged learners. She believes this can be accomplished through Best Practices teaching and learning methods founded on research-based and brain-based educational theory, including LEGO® Education pedagogy and Constructionism educational theory.