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8:00am CST

Synergize! Maximizing Your Collaboration Opportunities

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am CST

Want to improve student engagement? Want students to gain valuable real-world tech and problem solving skills but classroom teachers feel stretched just covering core content? Learn ways to leverage and maximize the collaboration between your certified Library Media Specialist and classroom teachers! Walk away with practical ideas for planning, scheduling, collaborating, and integrating library, technology, and core skills even if you have fixed, flexible, or hybrid schedule!

Speakers

Amy Allen

Library Media Specialist, USD 308

Friday March 7, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am CST
Alumni Banquet Room A

STEM, Student Engagement

9:00am CST

Mastering Efficiency: Automate Communication with Autocrat

Friday March 7, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am CST

Alumni Banquet Room A

Discover the power of Autocrat and Google to revolutionize your workflow by automating personalized communication. In this session, you'll learn to seamlessly generate and send customized documents like certificates, letters, and reports directly from Google Sheets. Perfect for educators, administrators, and professionals seeking to save time, reduce errors, and improve communication. Join us for a step-by-step walkthrough and real-world tips to unleash the power of automation!

Speakers

Ariel Jankord

Principal, Lincoln Elementary, USD 290

Ariel Jankord is a Principal in Ottawa, KS. Her entire career has been in the elementary world at a variety of grade levels and as a STEM teacher. She has a passion for creating a fun and innovative culture for teachers and students. Ariel is the founder of the Johnson County Edcamp... Read More →

Friday March 7, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am CST
Alumni Banquet Room A

Instructional Tools

10:00am CST

STEM Adventure: Build, Code, and Conquer the Challenges!

Friday March 7, 2025 10:00am - 11:45am CST

Alumni Banquet Room A

In this 90-minute session, you'll collaborate in teams to tackle two exciting challenges. First, you'll design and build a device capable of carrying a payload while navigating a course powered by a Sphero. In the second challenge, your team will create a device to drive and retrieve rings from a custom-built gateway. This hands-on activity encourages critical thinking, engineering design, physics, coding, and more. While this session lasts 90 minutes, this project would typically take multiple class periods to fully complete.

Speakers

Jess Blouvan

Tech Specialist in Coding and Robotics, Bishop Development Center, Topeka Kansas TPS 501

Gail Ramirez

Curriculum Technology Integration Specialist, Topeka Public Schools

I am a district-level Curriculum Technology Integration Specialist. I am certified as a Google Trainer, Seesaw Certified Teacher, Wakelet Coach, Apple Learning Specialist, Microsoft Trainer, and Adobe Certified Expert/Trainer. I work with our computer science curriculum and coding... Read More →

Friday March 7, 2025 10:00am - 11:45am CST
Alumni Banquet Room A

STEM, Sphero

Audience Middle School, High School
Subject STEM