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National STEM Day - #STEMUP - November 8, 2018

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National STEM Day - #STEMUP - November 8, 2018

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Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11:
* Take a great activity and all STEM partners do it at local schools
* ACC STEM Open House
* Piggyback on any Austin city events
* Find out what other ecosystems are doing
* Maybe add art into STEM UP
* Create a calendar of events for the day
* STEM Policy issues/events

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Computer Science Education Week - December 3-9, 2018

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Computer Science Education Week - December 3-9, 2018

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Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11:
* Hour of Code Ecosystem Event
* Partner with bootcamp
* Kid hackathon
* Workshop for adults
* Conference on IT
* Showcase entry level jobs for 18 and up
* A program that both adults and kids can work on together

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Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11:
* Shadow day
* "What is an Engineer" talk
* Speakers bureau for schools (** -- we have this with Texas STEM Connections)
* Have minority guest speakers
* Girl Day at UT Austin - 2/23/19
* STEM Family Night - 2/22/19
* Have internships fair of any companies offering internships to HS students
* Could Central Texas Discover Engineering take the lead?
* Thinkery Engineering Day

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2024 Solar Eclipse - Austin's in the Path of Totality

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2024 Solar Eclipse - Austin's in the Path of Totality

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Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11:
* Large observation event
* Eddington Experiment
* Weather Balloon
* Educational / Curricular events/activities/resources

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What type of community convenings makes sense in your STEM world? What topics, focus on STEM orgs, groups should get together, etc. make sense? Add your ideas and brainstorms to the comments!

Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11:
* STEM & State Policy
* Workforce efforts
* STEM professional development providers
* STEM Pre-K organizations/efforts
* Fundraising
* Models of great STEM activities & resources; making great STEM activiites; resource listings of different STEM activities; free resources/curriculum
* Research based best practices
* Digital Inclusion - broadband, device, training; how to help everyone connect
* Connecting volunteers to schools (Texas STEM Connections)
* STEM pathways - secondary to postsecondary
* Why do people who study STEM leave? How can they return?
* Shadow days for kids
* Alignment / awareness of programs by grade level
* Summer camp providers
* How to connect  to STEM teachers; engagement opportunities for university researchers to K12 public schools/teachers
* Examples of successful STEM programs; analyzing what worked and why
* STEM intersection with arts & humanities
* Project based learning
* Middle/senior level professionals into STEM fields (late engagement)
* Industry engagement; utilizing industry volunteers
* Workshops for teens concerning fields of IT (and other STEM)
* training seniors / non-STEM professionals for paid or volunteer work in STEM businesses/orgs

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Want to host a STEM networking forum or STEM community convening or know of a good place that can hold 25 - 100 people for networking, workshops, etc.?

Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11
* Typhoon Texas Waterpark
* Entrepreneur Center of Austin
Capital Factory
* Any Public Library
* ACC Highland (can do probably 1 time per year)
* Huston-Tillotson (networking event)
* Google Fiber
* Livestrong
* Manor New Tech MS
* UT STEM Center
* Boy Scouts Fickett Center
* Native Hostel
* Copenhagen Imports
* UT Pickle Campus
* Black Star Co-op (side room)
* Thinkery
* UT Center for Space Research
* Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
* Tech Coworking spaces? (Capital Factory, Tech Ranch)
* Wright Bros. Brew & Brew
* Austin Black Chamber
* Joe Lee Johnson STEM Academy

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Brainstorms from the #AustinSTEM Networking Forum on April 11:
* National Summer Learning Day
* Lights On AfterSchool - 10/25/18
* STEM Cafe's
* National Public Health Week
* Star Party
* Earth Day (April 21)
* Darwin Day (February)
* Startup + STEM day for kids to create
* Students sharing current STEM projects
* National Library Week
* Partnering with arts, museums
* Hackathon

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Let's brainstorm how to teach computational thinking for the creative mind, using the creative arts. 

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Let's brainstorm how to teach computational thinking for the creative mind, using the creative arts. 

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Google office

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Branching out

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Engineering for girls

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Partner up or present at the summer summit.

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Astronomy is a gateway science and one of the most interdisciplinary sciencesastronomy is often forgotten as a STEM subject.

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astronomy is often forgotten as a STEM

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Astronomy is a gateway science, the oldest science and interdisciplinary in nature. It is unfortunately often forgotten as a STEM subject.  Let's get all astronomy related organizations together to share why astronomy deserves an important place at the table all the time, not just during bigger celestial events and how educators can incorporate astronomy into their STEM agendas.

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Astronomy is a gateway science and one of the most interdisciplinary sciences. Astronomy is often forgotten as a STEM subject.

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Astronomy is a gateway science and astronomy is often forgotten as a STEM subject.

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astronomy is often forgotten as

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astronomy is

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astronomy is often passed over

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astronomy is often forgotten as a

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Travis County
Reimers Observatory