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{"title":"The Sound of STEAM","authors":"R. Harshbarger, D. Harshbarger","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.23","url":null,"abstract":"This field note describes how teachers and students developed an integrated STEAM unit around sound. The project involved dynamic interactions between concepts in math, science, and music. Author/Artist Bio Rodney Harshbarger, or Mr \"H\" as the kids call him, was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. After spending 4 years in the Navy based on a ship out of San Diego, California he attended the University of Louisiana Lafayette where he majored in music education. He then went directly to the University of Florida for his Masters degree in Trumpet Performance where he also played trumpet for the Christmas Brass at Walt Disney World part-time. Harshbarger is now in his 18th year of teaching music in Flagler Schools and currently is teaching K-6th grade music at Old Kings Elementary. He is National Board certified and a former Indian Trails Teacher of the Year as well as a former Flagler County Teacher of the Year. He was recently named a quarter-finalist for the 2014 Grammy Educator Award. Rodney and wife Denise are currently working on their Doctoral Degrees at the University of Central Florida.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124770979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Hiroshima. At the Intersection of Sciences, History, and Personal Narratives. A Personal Reflection.","authors":"Ms. Amy Velasco, Ms. Denise Shiokari","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.29","url":null,"abstract":"In the city of Hiroshima, Japan, sciences, history, and personal narratives meet. Atomic bomb survivors became the keepers of this town’s history and one of the most tragic chapters in the history of humankind; and as their voices fade to old age and death, there is a sense of urgency to keep their narratives alive. These are my personal reflections. Author/Artist Bio Dr. Gloria R. Montebruno Saller, Ph.d teaches Japanese language, literature, and culture at the University of La Verne, California.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125503440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Cover - The Quantified Self","authors":"L. Stone","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.34","url":null,"abstract":"The final cover created for Volume 1, Issue 2: The Quantified Self, The STEAM Journal Author/Artist Bio Leslie Love Stone is a conceptual painter whose work often focuses on the models we build to make sense of the world and ourselves. She uses geometry to abstract and animate statistical information, organic objects, and color. The result is a metamorphic revelation that transforms clarity into possibility. Leslie’s work has been included in a number of group shows and she was the solo artist in the Mosaic Gallery exhibition of They Fill My Eyes, a Tribute to the Children of Newtown. (For more information, see http://www.cgu.edu/PDFFiles/ Flame/FLAME_Spring_2013.pdf.) A former banking executive and native South Carolinian, Leslie is a graduate of Claremont Graduate University’s prestigious MFA program and recipient of the Karl and Beverly Benjamin Fellowship in Art. She received her MBA from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, with concentrations in marketing and international business, and her bachelor of science degree in finance and economics from the University of Nevada, Reno. She also holds an associate of arts degree in studio art and graphic design from Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California. Leslie is a member of Mensa. For more information about the artist, visit her website at www.leslielovestone.com. In consultation with: Sarah Alkurdi Michael Franklin Shanna Livermore Joe Tawan Roberts. See the accompanying art work and written piece in the 'cover' section. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This cover is available in The STEAM Journal: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss2/34","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128198974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"STEAM: The wave of the future embedded in ideals of the past","authors":"S. Ghanbari","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.27","url":null,"abstract":"As da Vinci acknowledges, there is an inherent interconnectivity between different academic disciplines and this concept is vital in comprehending how the arts play a meaningful role in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. This piece reflects on the positive effects of integrating the arts in STEM. Author/Artist Bio Sheena Ghanbari is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Educational Leadership through UC San Diego. She is interested in creativity and learning at the K-16 level and is more specifically drawn to the cognitive effects of the arts as well as the STEM to STEAM movement. The push and pull between logic and creativity has been ever-present in her academic and professional interests. Coming from a family of engineers, she developed an early appreciation for the ying and yang of left brain convergent thinking and right brain divergent thinking. She earned her Masters in Arts Management from the Heinz College of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and completed her undergraduate studies in Visual Arts and Communications at UC San Diego. She is currently the Program Promotion Manager for the Department of Visual Arts where she manages all of the department’s external marketing and communication efforts. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, swimming, running, and painting.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134263366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can Art Stress","authors":"Bojana Joksimovic-Ginn","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.16","url":null,"abstract":"Presented in this paper is an interactive, acoustic installation morphologically and functionally influenced by the evolutionarily developed phenomena of two particular defense mechanisms. The first one is the prey’s reduction of noise once a predator is detected; the second one is an internal physiological response to danger known as stress. Conducted in a manner of an experiment, this interactive artistic project has interesting and unpredicted results. Author/Artist Bio Joining art, science, and technology, interdisciplinary artist and former MD Bojana Ginn creates multimedia works that are conceptually based in scientific laws, end expressed through artistic elements: 2D and 3D drawing, sound, and movement.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133845642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"More than Gigabytes of Data","authors":"Shamini Dias","doi":"10.5642/steam.20140102.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/steam.20140102.3","url":null,"abstract":"We quantify ourselves each day. Our identities are streamed in gigabytes of data that capture (and shape?) who we are, where we go, what we do, and even how we think. This notion that all that we are can be reduced to data is both exciting and frightening. How exciting that we might be on the threshold of understanding ourselves, or at least of getting a detailed picture of our patterns of being. But is that all? Are we, in the end, just a quintessence of data? Author/Artist Bio I believe in stories as a foundational learning medium across all disciplines; the human brain is wired to seek patterns, and what are stories but information woven into a pattern (I agree with Brene Brown that “stories are data with a soul”). I trained as a public school teacher and as a storyteller, and have explored using drama, art, and story making with learners from age 4 through adults, in schools and business settings. The arts, especially performance through narrative and visual story making, are powerful modes for teaching, learning, and communicating ideas in multiple subjects and contexts. My interest in STEAM emerges naturally out of my practice as an educator and researcher in seeking organic and synergistic interactions between the skills and mindsets that both scientists and artists use when they reach for excellence in their work. Putting the “A” into STEM education adds the missing link that makes STEM disciplines relevant, accessible, intriguing, aweinspiring, and a natural part of our lives. Shamini Dias completed a PhD in Education at Claremont Graduate University and is currently the director of The Student Success Center at Claremont Gradate University Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This editorial is available in The STEAM Journal: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss2/3 More than gigabytes of data","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121250070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Musings From a Year of STE[a]M...How It Looks Walking Down the Path","authors":"Ruth Catchen","doi":"10.5642/steam.20140102.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/steam.20140102.20","url":null,"abstract":"This is a follow up article to one in the inaugural issue which describes the beginnings of implementing a STE[a]M curriculum in a school with a high at-risk student population. This article discusses the outcomes and the future after a year of STE[a]M. Author/Artist Bio Ruth Catchen received her Bachelor of Music degree from American University and her Master of Music degree from The Catholic University of America, in Vocal Performance and performed with many distinguished opera companies, conductors and orchestras in the United States. Later in her career, she turned her direction to music education and founded a youth chorale with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra in Naples, Florida. They performed with the orchestra as well as with well-known conductors such as Pops great, Erich Kunzel. After moving to Colorado, Catchen focused her attention to public education, hoping to better its quality and depth. She received her second master’s degree in 2007 from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs in Curriculum and Instruction/Leadership. Since then, she has worked in developing arts integrated curriculum programs for various schools and school districts. Her work has included the creation, development and marketing of educational programs through social media. Through her work with Incite! Paths to Excellence, Ruth brings educational opportunities to disadvantaged youth, schools, and other nonprofit organizations. Her passion is to promote excellent instruction that supports teachers and to bring education and the arts to life for children by connecting the arts to other core academics. Currently, Catchen is the artist-In-Residence at Jack Swigert Aerospace Academy in Colorado Springs where she does professional development and develops curriculum to integrate the arts with STEM curriculum.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114390282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"STEAM on Capitol Hill","authors":"Suzanne Bonamici, A. Schock","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.6","url":null,"abstract":"Our increasingly technology-driven economy demands a workforce that is proficient in both the concepts and techniques of STEM fields as well as in extending those skills into new applications and innovations. Currently, an impressive and diverse coalition of educators, art advocates, industry leaders, and STEM practitioners across the county are working to achieve that goal, bringing their ideas and advocacy to Capitol Hill. Author/Artist Bio Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives on February 7, 2012. She represents the First Congressional District of Oregon, which comprises the Northwest portion of the state. As a member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, Suzanne focuses on making college more affordable and reforming public education. She founded the bipartisan Congressional STEAM Caucus, which aims to encourage innovation and creative thinking by integrating arts and design with science, technology, engineering, and math education. Suzanne also serves as a member of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and she is the ranking Democratic member of the Subcommittee on the Environment. Suzanne first moved to Oregon from Michigan in the mid-1970s. She worked her way through college in Eugene, first at Lane Community College, where she earned an Associate Degree from the Legal Assistant program, and then at the University of Oregon, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts from the School of Journalism. In 1983, she received her J.D. from the University of Oregon School Of Law. During college and law school, Suzanne worked at Lane County Legal Aid Service. Suzanne and her husband, Michael, have two grown children and a cocker spaniel named Charley. Congressman Aaron Schock, a product of Peoria, IL, is currently in his third term representing the 18th District of Illinois. In addition to co-chairing the Congressional STEAM Caucus, he currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax and trade policy, and the Committee on House Administration, which provides internal oversight for the House of Representatives. Aaron got his start in public office when he was elected to the Peoria School Board as a write-in candidate at the age of 19. At 22, his school board colleagues voted to make Aaron vice president of the board and a year later they voted unanimously to make him board president for one of the state’s largest school districts. He then was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives, where he succeeded in passing 18 substantive bills, several of which were hailed as “landmark reforms.” Learn more at http://schock.house.gov.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128461580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Importance of Being Creative","authors":"Dennis J. Callahan","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.4","url":null,"abstract":"Dennis Callahan is a graduate student in Materials Science at Caltech and also is an advisor to The STEAM Journal. He has created many types of scientific art, and his images have twice consecutively won first place at Caltech's \"Art of Science\" competition. Author/Artist Bio Dennis Callahan is a graduate student in Materials Science at Caltech. His thesis is focused on exploring design limits for novel types of solar cells to achieve maximum efficiency with minimum cost and use of raw materials. He has created many types of scientific art, and his images have twice consecutively won first place at Caltech's \"Art of Science\" competition. In his spare time Dennis is an amateur photographer and singersongwriter. He also experiments with generative art, which is an art form at the intersection of abstract drawing and computer programming in which artistic works are created with a computer through the use of human designed algorithms. One of his major interests and passions is the merging of science and art to help foster a greater widespread understanding of the purpose and importance of each of these typically distinct and ‘under-appreciated’ topics. www.its.caltech.edu/~callahan/Home.html Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. This editorial is available in The STEAM Journal: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol1/iss2/4 The Importance of Being Creative","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"148 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132181417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two Bit Circus","authors":"Elise Lemle","doi":"10.5642/STEAM.20140102.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5642/STEAM.20140102.24","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Two Bit Circus collaborated with the Girl Scouts of the Greater Los Angeles Area to explore the exciting world of wearable electronics. Over the course of the program, the students explored concepts of introductory electronics while designing and creating their own illuminated fashion piece. The program was held in Montrose, CA in Fall 2013. The students were approximately 10 girls ages seven to 14. The program was held over seven sessions with each session lasting 80 minutes.","PeriodicalId":438783,"journal":{"name":"The STEAM Journal","volume":"1 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120926189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}