San Diego Incubator for Innovation Project Prototypes: Aqua Diao Butterfly Alive Project DIY EcoLab En Plein Aire App Kate’s Place The Dewers The Epic Water Game Trash to Paradise Waterstock Balboa Park Online Collaborative Coronado School of the Arts:  Water Dances DNA of Creativity:  Sea Changes Dramatic Results:  BuildTopia Eco Verse Euphoria Brass Band Feaster STEAM Charter, Chula Vista:  Ping pong Ball Pyramid, Chemistry of Bounce, Programming Robots Fleet Science Center:  Chromatography Kid*Spark, powered by Rokenbok: Community Build and STEM-Maker Challenge MassMind:  Arduino Exploration TheNAT / San Diego Natural History Museum:  Wild Beanie Safari & Eye on Nature San Diego Air & Space Museum: Paper Rockets SDSU Center for Research in Mathematics & Science Education (CRMSE):  InforMath— 3D Sketches Syntrogi Labs: Glass Brain and EEGOcean ThoughtSTEM:  Game-based Computer Coding UCSD Physics / Beach Physics:  Galaxy Garden UCSD Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Gamelan Project: Synchronized ensemble music, data visualization, and attention UCSD Institute for Neural Computation:  Games controlled by eye movement (Neuro gaming) UCSD Machine Perception Lab:  RUBI Social Robots USD Mathematics:  Mathegami, Learning Mathematics through Origami YMCA Youth & Family Services:  Lego...

Times of San Diego ‘Play Day’ Explores How Art Can Improve Science Education “Hundreds of local educators descended on Balboa Park Thursday afternoon to explore how artistic creativity can lead to innovation in science education. The ‘Play Day for Educators’ was sponsored by Art of Science Learning, an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation to spark creativity in science education. San Diego is one of three cities nationwide with an incubator program to develop ideas. The event was organized to showcase the San Diego incubator teams’ projects.” La Prensa San Diego Innovative projects connect community with art and science “Art and science many times are worlds apart, but for the 10 San Diego teams that are part of Art of Science Learning, art and science are inseparable. Art of Science Learning is a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that is challenging three incubators, one of them in San Diego, to use a new arts-based curriculum to solve civic challenges in each...

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  Thursday, July 24, 2014, 3:30 – 6:30 pm Balboa Park  •  San Diego Museum of Art  Sculpture Garden  •  Plaza de Panama Educators and leaders in schools, universities, museums, learning centers… Move, make, and play — merging art, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics!   (left to right)  Trash to Paradise prototype, Rokenbok construction, Glass Brain, EEG powered by BCILab/SIFT Click here to see the Play Day Presenters & Participatory Activities   Pictures of Play Day! Photographs: Kathleen Schmitt Play Day for Educators IMG_8661 IMG_8358 IMG_8362 IMG_8367 IMG_8369 IMG_8402 IMG_8395 IMG_8400 IMG_8414 IMG_8419 IMG_8424 IMG_8431 IMG_8436 IMG_8440 IMG_8454 IMG_8448 IMG_8479 IMG_8469 IMG_8467 IMG_8488 IMG_8493 IMG_8504 IMG_8506 IMG_8518 IMG_8584 IMG_8589 IMG_8574 IMG_8689 IMG_8686 IMG_8667 Galaxy Garden Pop-Up   View photos from Play Day here: Play Day Gallery Play Day in the News: View Articles   Questions? Email nan.renner@bpcp.org Inspire each other  •  Share ideas and tools  •  Grow our region’s network for innovative learning  •  Play with prototypes created by Art of Science Learning Incubator for Innovation teams  •  Meet up  •  Have fun  • Organized by the Art of Science Learning Collaborating partners Balboa Park Learning Institute/Cultural Partnership and STEAM Connect             Our Featured Sponsors for Play Day: San Diego Museum of Art and Panama...

January 25, 2014 Program 10:00 – 11:00 am   —   The Big Picture   Kaplan Theater An overview of water ecology, policy, infrastructure, treatment, technological change, and water use followed by Q & A Nan Renner, Art of Science Learning Incubator for Innovation Exequiel Ezcurra, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, UCMEXUS Riverside Cary Lowe, San Diego Water Policy Implementation Task Force Ken Weinberg, San Diego County Water Authority Kevin Hardy, Encina Wastewater Treatment Dawn Guendert, GHD Glen Schmidt, Schmidt Design Group   11:00 am – 2:00 pm   —   All About Water  Atrium Beach Physics and the Physics of Water  —  Adam Burgasser Jukebox Radio, Water Moving Machines  —  Mark Dzula Art of Science Learning, Balboa Park Cultural Partnership  —  Lisa Silagyi Explore the Pueblo Watershed  —  Farnaz Farhang, Phil Roullard, Chrislyn Snow, Linda Hollingsworth   Water: A California Story Biomimicry San Diego  —  Jacques Chirazi, Tamsin Wooley-Barker, Nan Woodman WILDCOAST  —  Paloma Aguirre San Dieguito River Park  —  Shawna Anderson   Parker-French Learning Lab  San Diego County Water Authority, eGuide to a WaterSmart Lifestyle  —  Kelly Mooney Cloud Formation Demos & Atmospheric Chemistry, CAICE, UCSD  ­—  Greg Medders USGS California Water Science Center, Regional Groundwater Resources  —  Wes Danskin City of San Diego Water Purification & Potable ReUse  —  Jeffery Pasek H2O Futures, Plant-based Innovations  —  Ned Daugherty AlterTerra, Tijuana River Watershed  —  Oscar Romo Think Blue, City of San Diego Stormwater  —  Lana Findlay H2OME, Graywater, Rainwater Catchment  —  Brook Sarson San Diego County Watershed Protection Program — Marsha Cook The Water Conservation Garden, Waterwise Landscaping  —  Sue Bell, Connie Cline   11:15 – 12:30 pm    —   Deeper Conversations     Smargon Learning Lab Policy — Cary Lowe, Water Policy Implementation Task Force; Cathy Pieroni, Integrated Regional Water Management; Ken Weinberg, San Diego County Water Authority Technology — Jared Criscuolo, Rising Tide Partners; Dawn Guendert, GHD; Kevin Hardy, Encina Wastewater Treatment Land Use & Planning — Nancy Casady, State Board of Food and Agriculture; Bill Harris, Think Blue, City of San Diego Stormwater; Mary Lydon, Urban Land...