Arduino EDUvision

It's the EDUvision holiday special! Join us for a fun-filled and action-packed live show where we'll be celebrating play in education with special guest Simon Niedenthal. Simon is a Professor of Interaction Design and is investigating the potential of smell-enabled gaming.

In this unmissable podcast, we talk to US science educator, curriculum designer, STEM advocate, and founder of Nitty Gritty Science, Dr. Erica Colón about how to close the STEM gender gap.   In 2008, Erica earned her Master’s in Educational Administration, but quickly realized her passion was working with science teachers. She returned to earn her Doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in science and technology, and in 2012, she founded Nitty Gritty Science, where she continues to design and publish science curriculum materials, which can now be found in thousands of classrooms around the globe!   Erica also organizes and hosts the Champions For Science Virtual Conference Series for science educators, where extraordinary leaders, creators, and innovators in science education come together to focus on the most important matter – our students – the future champions for science.

In this podcast, we have our minds blown by outstanding US STEM educator, Bill Church.  Bill loves teaching, physics, and engineering. A former public school physics teacher, he's used computer science, engineering design challenges, inquiry, and technology tool sets in classrooms for over twenty years. Bill has presented his work on project-based learning at many national and international conferences and co-authored a book of classroom activities.   He's currently the Executive Director of White Mountain Science, a STEM outreach and curriculum development organization in New Hampshire, US, and is a regular collaborator with STEM education innovators near and far.

We talk to Maynard Okereke, also known as STEM superstar Hip Hop M.D.. His successful YouTube channel, Hip Hop Science, is aimed at bridging the gap between music and science by bringing the scientific into everyday pop culture. We talk all things science education and, of course, music! You can also check out our spookiest Arduino Halloween projects!

In our latest podcast, we talk to Marco Zennaro, a research scientist focusing on IoT, wireless sensor networks and their applications in developing countries. We talk about how we can achieve the UN Sustainable Development goals (with a focus on AI), as well as all things IoT.

In our latest podcast, we talk to Pete Warden, technical lead at Google and founder of Jetpac, a deep learning technology startup acquired by Google in 2014. We discuss all things AI and IoT, and - because it's International Failure Day on October 13th - we also explore why failing is so important to learning.

In Arduino EDUvision this week we talk to aerospace fans Matt Scott, Secondary STEM Coordinator, and Andrew O’Brien, STEM Curriculum Advisor from the New South Wales Department of Education, Australia. We discuss all things space and STEM, including how Matt and Andrew developed a STEM curriculum unit led to the ProtoSat.

We talk to IoT teacher André Roussel about universal access to information and the development and future of the IoT. André currently teaches the Internet of Things course at the Collège Communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick in Canada, and has deep experience in process improvement, systems analysis, electrical wiring, databases, and programming - as well as a Master’s degree in physics and a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification.

Would you take a ride in a self-driving car? Wondering how long it will be before you see them on the roads? In this episode of Arduino EDUvision, we talk to Çetin Meriçli, about self-driving vehicles and robotics.  Çetin is the CEO and co-founder of Locomation, a leading developer of safe and reliable autonomous driving technology for semi-trucks. An experienced entrepreneur and former Special Faculty at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) of Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute. He has two decades of experience in developing and deploying complex robotic systems for commercial, military, and scientific applications and he has played key roles in over a dozen high profile applied robotics projects. He's also a well-published expert in AI, robotics, and machine learning.

In this episode, we talk to maker and educator Nathalie Duponsel about the power of open-source and taking a maker style approach to education, all in celebration of Software Freedom Day on September 18th.  Nathalie is a doctoral candidate in Educational Technology at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, and a certified primary school teacher. She has also taught at primary, high school, and university levels. Nathalie’s research focuses on maker education and the benefits of DIY, design, maker activities have for student learning, as well as how schools can optimize conditions to facilitate teachers’ use of maker- and design-based pedagogies.