I AM STEM Symposium
I AM STEM Symposium: September 6, 2024
Participants may earn 0.90 CEU credits or 9 SHCRM PDC credits by paying an additional $10 after you register and elect that option. At the end of the symposium, participants who elected the CEU's or SCHRM PDC's will be emailed a link to purchase them
To eliminate financial barriers that might prevent one from participating in the symposium, there may be scholarship funds available. If you want to apply for this scholarship support, please email your answers to the following questions to SAR-iamstem@usf.edu
- What is your name/ contact information- name/email.
- Why do you need support?
- Why is attending this event important to you?
- How will this scholarship support your future aims?
Virtual: $25
This is a friendly conversation/co-learning experience for anyone interested.
Attendees will gain access to a course with materials/resources and access to ongoing network meetings and collaborations.
Who Should Attend: Faculty, students, industry leaders, organizational leaders and advocates, people who experience disabilities and/or their allies, and anyone interested in thinking about transformational success
STEM faculty:
Responsible for driving inclusion in constructing our curriculum, learning, research spaces, and practices to broaden participation in STEM. Our thinking around the scoping of skills/ performance expectations can evolve to include broader involvement.
K-12 Educators:
Responsible for ascertaining techniques and strategies to use in primary and secondary schools to enhance student learning and achievement and prepare for postsecondary experiences. Our content and inclusive pedagogy are strengthened when we collaborate to meet the needs of STEM industries.
University faculty:
Responsible for course accessibility in teaching and learning, the utility of Universal Design for Learning for student success outcomes, and developing a learning community that values all. Our content and inclusive pedagogy are strengthened when we collaborate to meet the needs of STEM industries.
STEM industry leaders and HR professionals:
Responsible for creating workplace culture, building collaborations with workforce preparation pipelines to identify and recruit employees, and creating policies and procedures to support a diverse workforce. Creating mutual, reciprocal partnerships with universities can increase STEM graduates' knowledge and skills and increase the STEM workforce's diversity.
Disability Advocates, Allies, Organizations, and employees who identify with a disability:
Responsible for advocating for the educational, legal, and/or career placement/advancement of those who experience disability. The needs of your community should shape school, university, and workplace policies, procedures, and practices. Your voices are very important in this Inclusive Accessibility Movement in STEM!
About I AM STEM
The Critical & Creative Design Thinking Program of the University of South Florida, in collaboration with the Fram Chair in Applied Critical Thinking of Rochester Institute of Technology and Ohio State University, is thrilled to announce the inaugural Inclusive Accessibility Movement in STEM (I AM STEM): Transformative Thinking for Action Symposium. This series of gatherings will promote and embed a network aimed at designing, improving, and sharing best practices for Transformative thinking in action for STEM inclusion.
We are excited to offer a very unique symposium format. Attendees will be engaged in collaborative discussions and design sessions after listening to presentations by academic and industry speakers.
We anticipate this symposium to be the first of many.
More details to come as we announce speakers and more!
| Registration Opens | 7:30am - 8:00am |
| Welcome & Overview of the Day | 8:00am - 8:15am |
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Intro: The Mission and Vision of I AM STEM A brief overview of Ableism and Accessibility and a deep dive into how Critical & Creative Design Thinking and Universal Design Learning can help us create innovative solutions in STEM. |
8:15am - 9:00am |
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Accessibility Challenges in Early STEM Ecosystems *This session will be livestreamed and participants will be able to ask questions through the chat feature. |
9:00am - 10:30am |
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Break |
10:30am - 10:45am |
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Fireside Chat Discussions: Exploring Solutions for Accessibility
Participants will be able to interact and ask questions in the break-out rooms for each Fireside Chat. Fireside Chat 1: Madeline Augustin, Technology Strategy Senior Manager at Boeing, Giselle Stewart,
Global Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, Senior Manager at Boeing (Recognized as a Disability:
IN Corporate Partner) |
10:45am - 11:45am |
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Roundtable Discussion: Interactive Dialogue between Industry and Academia Attendees will have the option to explore the importance of empathy data collection in designing solutions for accessibility. |
11:45am - 12:45pm |
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Break for Lunch |
12:45pm - 1:15pm |
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Brainstorming Session: Putting Ideas into Action Apply the Critical and Creative Design Thinking process (CCDT) or the Applied Critical Thinking process (ACT) to design I AM STEM early ecosystems that will address:
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1:15pm - 3:15pm |
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Break |
3:15pm - 3:30pm |
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Closing Session |
3:30pm - 5:00pm |
From 8:00am to 10:30am, the symposium will be available as a livestream, where you’ll be welcome to ask questions. From 10:30am onward, attendees will collaborate in facilitated break-out sessions with other attendees.
