2023 Teacher Workshops are listed below, 2024 Teacher Workshops will be announced closer to the fair!

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Teacher Workshops

Workshop Topic: 5 Easy Ways to Include the Entrepreneurial Mindset in your STEM Program

Robin Eisen, Special Projects Manager, Burton D. Morgan Foundation

Overview

The main focus of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation’s work in youth entrepreneurship is on building the entrepreneurial mindset and related skillsets as essential elements of a 21st century education.  Entrepreneurship education is a critical component in all students’ academic careers, providing youth with valuable opportunities that build the mindset, agency, and skills to design and actualize new ideas and solutions. It prepares them to develop creative solutions to problems, work collaboratively toward shared goals, adapt to ever-changing conditions, and develop the grit and resilience to forge their own paths.

This workshop will provide K-12 teachers with up-to-date information on STEM entrepreneurship and showcase the YIPPEE Exchange platform.  Newly registered educators will get up to 750 points (i.e., $750) to spend on the site. A few STEM-based products will be highlighted during the workshop that will help teachers decide which options suit their classes.

Workshop Topic: Artificial Intelligence Made Easy

Dr. Eric Shearer (Ph.D.), Cleveland State University

Overview

BEST Medicine will offer an Artificial Intelligence (AI) workshop, to support K-12 school educators who want to gain familiarity with AI and offer AI-related educational activities for their students. The workshop will cover an introduction to topics that include machine learning and decision-making systems.  The overall goes is to provide teachers with a skillset that enables them to implement simple AI lessons in the classroom.