© 2015 Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D. Inspiring Youth to Become STEM Stars 12 th Annual sySTEMnow Conference Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.

© 2015 Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.

Inspiring Youth to Become STEM Stars

12th Annual sySTEMnow Conference

Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.

Challenges for STEM Education

• Urban populations growing exponentially globally

• World-wide, inter-connected, multi-disciplinary problems

• Science, Social Economic, Political, Religious Interdepencies

Challenges for STEM Education

• Urban populations growing exponentially globally

• World-wide, inter-connected, multi-disciplinary problems

• Science, Social Economic, Political, Religious Interdependencies

• Need students who have global, systems thinking

• Narrow STEM training is not enough

• Need New Type of STEM Innovators

Teaching Innovation

Business, Entrepreneurship

Arts, Humanities, Social Science

Science, Tech, Engineering,

Math

Adaptation from Richard Miller, Dean, Olin College of Engineering

Teaching Innovation

Commerciality

Humanity

Functionality

Teaching Innovation

Functionality Commerciality

Humanity

Innovation

Inspiring Youth to Be STEM Stars

• Childhood Creative Imagination• Teaching Creativity and Innovation• Meeting a Creative Innovator

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Inspiring Youth to Be New Kind of STEM Innovator

• Childhood Creative Imagination• Teaching Creativity and Innovation• Meeting a Creative Innovator

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Inspiring Youth to Be New Kind of STEM Innovator

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© 2015 Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.

Childhood Creativity & Imagination

A Humanoid Robot in Every Home

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Rosie, the Humanoid Health Coach

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Think like a child. Act like an innovator.

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Teaching Creativity & Innovation

• V • E• R• B

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• Vision• E• R• B

Teaching Creativity & Innovation

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• V • Expectations• R• B

Teaching Creativity & Innovation

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• V • E• Resources• B

Teaching Creativity & Innovation

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• V • E• R• Build

Teaching Creativity & Innovation

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• Vision • Expectations • Resources • Build

Teaching Creativity & Innovation

STEM Stars!

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Success, Failure, and Courage

The Walls Between Creativity and Innovation

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A Creative Innovator

© 2015 Andrew B. Williams, Ph.D.Credit: Adrianna Williams

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SpelBots @ Google

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SpelBots @ Apple

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“Creativity is just connecting things.”

– Steve Jobs, Wired Magazine, 1996

“A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences.”

– Steve Jobs, Wired Magazine, 1996

“The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”

– Steve Jobs, Wired Magazine, 1996

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3 Questions to Become STEM Stars

• What if?

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3 Questions to Become STEM Stars

• What if? • Why not?

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3 Questions to Become STEM Stars

• What if? • Why not?• How now?

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3 Questions to Become STEM Stars

• What if? - Dream• Why not? - Imagine• How now? - Make

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3 Questions to Become STEM Stars

3 Questions to Connect the Dots

• What if? - Dream with Creativity• Why not? - Imagine without Limits• How now? - Make and Create Iteratively

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Inspiring our Youth to Be STEM Stars

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