Meet Adam, Alex, Scott, and Kristin at the AERA 2017 Annual Meeting, April 27- May 1, 2017, in San Antonio, TX. Multiple researchers at Rockman, along with Prof. Chris Dede, Prof. Kathleen Tyner, and practitioners at Youth Radio, Black Girls Code, and Technovation, will lead a symposium, “Teaching STEM and Data Science Both In and Out of Schools.”

Meet Kristin at the NSF INCLUDES conference, February 23-24, 2017, in Knoxville TN. Kristin will be presenting on Multi-Scale Evaluation in STEM Education.

Meet Alex at the Young Creators’ Symposium, March 9th, 2017, at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in San Jose, CA. He will attend this youth media symposium for high school youth in San Jose to interact with creative industry professionals and innovative tools.

Meet Scott Burg, October 31, 2016, at the International Society of Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology, at the Durban Hilton, Durban, South Africa. Scott will be giving an oral presentation with Dr. Ken Bassett, Seva Canada’s Program Director, “Aravind Eye Hospital’s drive for growth and innovation – understanding how external capacity building becomes the engine for change.”

Meet Scott Burg at the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, October 29-30, 2016, at the Durban International Convention Centre, in Durban, South Africa. Scott will be presenting two posters. The first poster, “Understanding how external capacity building becomes the engine for change, describes Aravind Eye Hospital’s (India) drive for growth and innovation. The second poster describes an innovative multi-organizational capacity building intervention to improve eye care delivery and introduce sustainable change at a large public eye care hospital in Peru.