Fusebox Festival – Art and Technology Exploration

STEAM Projects – Motion Bank & CUE CHINA (Elsewhere, Offshore) Fusebox has launched a new series, focusing on the intersection of Art, Culture, and Technology. Their first two projects, Motion Bank and CUE CHINA, are truly interesting forays into the world of STEM. Motion Bank (featured in the above image) is a research project of…

Is Creativity The New “Big Skill”?

With the oncoming wave of Baby Boomer retirements, employers across the entire country are asking themselves where they are going to find the next group of employees with the problem solving skills and ingenuity to suit their job needs.  Organizations will be competing left and right to gain adaptable, resourceful workers, and the common solution…

Minecraft in the Classroom

Video games being used as educational tools in the classroom has been an oft-discussed topic, and it’s great to see when they are used effectively in real life situations. For example, the classrooms of Hank Lanipher and Amy Yount, two social studies teachers at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington.  They use Minecraft as…

The Duke STEAM Challenge!

What is it? The Duke STEAM Challenge is an initiative encouraging students to show their skills in STEAM related fields. The Challenge consists of two events, each with various prize rewards. The STEAMy Summer Challenge has just recently launched, and sporting a grand prize of $1000, challenges you to show why STEAM matters to you….

STEAM in Training – National Modeling & Simulation Coalition

An organization based around the use of modeling and simulation practices in the fields of manufacturing, defense, medicine, education, and other areas, NMSC has been around for roughly a year now. Based out of Washington DC, this coalition features senior executives, researchers, and top minds from government, corporations, and universities. Their goal is to created…

KiiCS – A European Union Arts & Science Initiative

Science and Technology Converge in Europe  A three-year project aimed at combining the creativity of art with the practicality of science, KiiCS has been revving up for about a year now, and is really gaining traction over in Europe.  KiiCS stands for Knowledge Incubation in Innovation and Creation for Science, and was created by FP7,…