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miniCAST 2018

Registration and Vendor Hall 3rd Floor

6:00pm MDT

Friday Night at the Museum UTEP Centennial Museum

7:00pm MDT

Night at the Museum: Lightning Sessions - UTEP Professors and Guests UTEP Centennial MuseumTom Gill • Hugo Gutierrez • Deidra R. Hodges • Marianne Karplus • Thorne Lay • Katherine Mortimer • Deana Pennington • Charles Spencer • Liz Walsh • Jeffrey Weidner

7:15am MDT

Onsite Registration Tomas Rivera Conference Room, 3rd Floor

8:00am MDT

Keynote: Dr. Thorne Lay: The Geology of the Movies Union CinemaDr. Thorne Lay

9:15am MDT

Exhibit Hall Tomas Rivera Conference Room, 3rd Floor

9:25am MDT

Achieve STEAM Goals With MackinVIA and MackinMaker Ray Room 309Bobbi Craig BREAKING BRAINS! Part 1 Explore The Fun and Fascinating World of Brain Training and How Brain Breaks Improve Instruction! University Suite 312BCharity Riley-Rose From Pawn to King: UIL Chess Prep/Curriculum Templeton 313AGregory Davis Launch Your Leadership Journey through STAT Templeton 313BLinda Schaake • STAT Learning without Borders with Skype University Suite 312A Mobile Fab Labs - Makerspace on the Go Wiggins 315Cathy Chen-Arriaga • Michael Nelson Robotics Inside and Out Smiley Room 310Jason Mason • Raul Torres Texas Certified Environmental Educator Program Elkins 314Alicia Mein-Johnson Zoila's WOWs = Chain Reaction of Kindness! Barry Room 316Juanita Quinones Gandara Dissect How Social Emotional Learning Contributes to Science Literacy Acacia 102AWendy Bauerkemper • Todd Crump 1-2-3 Steps to Better STAAR Scores Andesite 102BJeana Reagan Live Streaming Morning Announcements Cactus Flower 102CLisa Gailey Sticklebacks + Literacy Strategies = Genetics Learning Success with HHMI BioInteractive Desert Canyon 102DLee Ferguson UTEP Dept of Engineering TourLIMITED UTEP Dept of Engineering GT Nature and Needs of GT Students Union CinemaLora Holt

10:15am MDT

10:15 - 10:45 Session Break / Exhibit Hall Tomas Rivera Conference Room, 3rd Floor

10:45am MDT

Breaking Brains Part II: Where is the Glue? How Do I Get Learning to Stick?LIMITED University Suite 312BCharity Riley-Rose DinoTracks: Insights fossilized dinosaur track tours and curriculum Wiggins 315Meghan Curry Get a STEM Teaching Certificate: Change your world and theirs! University Suite 312AVeronica Burnett GT Who You Gonna Call?LIMITED Andesite 102BNatalie Driver • Patricia Londono Interested in Becoming a K-12 School Administrator?LIMITED Templeton 313ACarolyn Awalt • Teresa Cortez Let's Talk "Dirty"LIMITED Ray Room 309Gregory Davis The Chihuahua Desert open your eyes Templeton 313BJoseph Arteaga The Four-Stage Cycle Framework of Active Learning Acacia 102ASharo Dickerson It's All Greek to Them: Word Walls in Science Cactus Flower 102CBecky Atnip • Catnip's Word Walls Strategies for STAAR Success Barry Room 316Supporting Science INc Exploring Simple Harmonic Motion--An Inquiry Approach Smiley Room 310Charity Riley-Rose Cancelled: Discipline Free Hands On Science Labs Andesite 102B Using TI and Vernier technology in multiple science labs Desert Canyon 102DCelena Arreola • Helen Geller Linking Science and Math To Support Conceptual Understanding Elkins 314Kesha Banks • Holly Crowson UTEP Dept of Engineering TourLIMITED UTEP Dept of Engineering

11:00am MDT

Earth Science Week Activities Geology Building

11:35am MDT

11:35 - 1:00 Lunch-Geology Building/ Exhibits- 3rd Floor East UnionLIMITED Geology Building

1:00pm MDT

Become a Mac NinjaLIMITED Cactus Flower 102CMillie Calero • Matthew Munden International Space Station: Benefits and OpportunitiesLIMITED Union CinemaDiana Garcia GT APP-lying tech into your lessonLIMITED Ray Room 309Christian Kettelhut GT Gaming in the Classroom: Creating Games with Google Slides Smiley Room 310Jacqueline Rubio • Isabel Stretton GT Geotechnologies and integrating spatial thinking in the classroomLIMITED Wiggins 315Stanley Mubako GT Mighty Science Manipulatives: Tools to Engage, Teach, Assess & ReviewFILLING Barry Room 316Supporting Science INc GT Providing Computational Thinking Opportunities to all studentsLIMITED University Suite 312A GT When the Wheels are Turning, the Students are Learning! Templeton 313ADonald Tunstall GT Structures, Functions, Fables, and Fairytales Acacia 102ACarolyn Moody GT Artificial Intelligence Family Challenges by Curiosity MachineLIMITED Templeton 313BAntonio Motta Connecting Biomolecules to Natural Selection Using HHMI BioInteractive Resources Desert Canyon 102DLee Ferguson Is There Water on Zork? Andesite 102BAlma Klages • April Thoreson GT 50 Minutes, Using your phone as a data collection device Elkins 314Luis Miranda • William Swanson GT DIVE-In Engineering - Make and Take University Suite 312BVeronica Burnett • Terry Talley

1:50pm MDT

Ice Cream Social / Afternoon Break - Geology Building Geology Building

2:10pm MDT

Explore Water! Andesite 102BShae Luther Making Science Words Real with Vocabulary Magic™ - Fast, Fun, Fabulous Vocabulary Strategies (grades 3-12) Cactus Flower 102CJoanne Billingsley GT Breakout of the Classroom Elkins 314John Roach GT Citizen Science for all!LIMITED Barry Room 316Diana Moy GT Claim-Evidence-Reasoning: Scientific Explanations about Phenomena University Suite 312AVeronica Burnett GT In to the Sky Ray Room 309Ricardo Cortez • Christian Kettelhut GT Know Me - Know My NameLIMITED Templeton 313ACarolyn Awalt • Teresa Cortez GT Wearable Science to Fuel CreativityLIMITED Wiggins 315Jody Hodges GT Panorama Science: Literacy though the Lens of Science Acacia 102ANational Geographic Learning (K-8) GT "STREAM" into Story-based Learning with Insights El Paso Science Center Templeton 313BGrace Flores-Robles • Sue Huffman Sound and Video with Processing Smiley Room 310Janise Pries • Kim Pries Let's Fly a Kite: A Cross Curricular Project Desert Canyon 102DKimberly Benford • Misty Steve Maintaining attention in the age of distraction Union CinemaTy Vanatta

3:10pm MDT

Cancelled - WebNet+ as an alternative learning modalityLIMITED Andesite 102BMichael Biegler Learning Spaces: Apple Store as a model for a ClassroomLIMITED Union CinemaMatthew Munden GT Amplifying Your GT Students VoiceLIMITED Templeton 313ATim Holt GT Break Out Into ScienceLIMITED Elkins 314Earl Yager GT Computer Science for Non-Computer Science MajorsLIMITED Smiley Room 310Charity Riley-Rose GT Enhancing the STEM curriculum with Virtual SimulationsLIMITED Barry Room 316Brandi Jones GT NEW Literacy Connections: Adding Rigor to Science Literacy with STEMscopes University Suite 312AVeronica Burnett GT Energy in Action Templeton 313BCarla Burns Using Vocabulary Magic™ Science Stories - to Build Vocabulary, Content Knowledge & "Reading Grit" (grades 3-8) Cactus Flower 102CJoanne Billingsley GT Getting Started with CodeMonkey University Suite 312BLeena Saleh GT It takes GUTS to Teach BODY SYSTEMS! Wiggins 315Jody Hodges GT UTEP ADP MaST Academy STEM Games! Ray Room 309Yuliana Cardoza • Ellen Esposito

4:05pm MDT

Closing Session, Door Prize GiveawayFILLING Union Cinema