2025 Massachusetts PKAL Summer Meeting
Schedule at a Glance
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM | BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION Scanlon Banquet Hall |
| 9:00 – 9:20 AM | WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Dr. William Salka |
| 9:20 - 9:30 AM | BREAK |
| 9:30 - 10:30 AM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Workshop 1: RIDE Center Using Fabrication Tools to Engage Students in Understanding Theoretical or Complex Contexts Workshop 2: Scanlon B Reimagining Metabolism: Teaching Pathways through Card Sorting Presentation 1: Scanlon C A. Meme-making for Computational Thinking B. Great Problems Seminar - Shelter the World: A Case Study in Community Collaboration STEAM Project Curriculum |
| 10:30 - 10:45 AM | BREAK |
| 10:45 - 11:45 AM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Presentation 2: Scanlon A A. Designing a Biosafety Level 2 Lab: A Student-Led 3D Modeling Project to Advance STEM Learning and Research B. Data Visualization and Storytelling: Increasing Access to Data Science for Social Good Presentation 3: Scanlon B A. Using Art to Discover Physics B. Storytelling and Embodied Learning in Physics & Earth Science Undergraduate Courses Workshop 3: Scanlon C Dancing in a Mathematics for Liberal Arts Class |
| 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM | LUNCH AND GALLERY Loughman Living Room and Scanlon Banquet Hall |
| 1:15 - 1:30 PM | BREAK |
| 1:30 - 2:30 PM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Presentation 4: Scanlon A A. Making Connections: Artistic Gaming and Mapping to Understand Metabolism B. Visual Thinking Strategies: STEAM and Power Workshop 4: Scanlon C Problem Solving in STEM: What’s Art Got to do with it? Workshop 5: RIDE Center Science Fun with Arduino |
| 2:30 - 2:45 PM | BREAK |
| 2:45 - 3:45 PM | CONCURRENT SESSIONS Workshop 6: Scanlon A Weather Art in a Pre-Service Education Class Presentation 5: Scanlon B A. Science of Stuff: A New Course to Engage Non-STEM Majors B. Designing STEM Activities to Enhance Student Scientific Literacy in an Interdisciplinary Forensics Course Presentation 6: Scanlon C Dear Data: A Personal Data Collection and Visualization Project in The Context of an Interdisciplinary Seminar-Style Course on Data Feminism |