{"data":{"ID":604,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1446441785,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Engineering as a Catalyst for School Wide Change","Handle":"engineering_as_a_catalyst_for_school_wide_change","ShortDescription":"What would it look like to use engineering as a catalyst to change your school\u2019s physical environment and culture?  This conversation will be moderated by SLA's resident engineers who have recently rebuilt the SLA engineering program as a centerpiece to school wide tinkering, making, and creative solution-finding.","Description":"This conversation will examine how engineering can be used to empower students to build community through design, to take control of their physical environment, to use making as a path to expression, and to build confidence in solving large scale problems in the world.   Chris Pilla and John Kamal teach students engineering at SLA\u2019s two campuses.  They will lead a discussion about ways to leverage engineering as a way to reconnect kids with their innate drive to tinker, build, and solve problems.  The discussion will take place in SLA\u2019s makerspace and machine shop where these concepts are carried out by kids every day.","Link":[],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","Elementary School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"TBD - but we know we want to hold it in SLA Room 304.","Presenter":["Chris Pilla","John Kamal"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Science Leadership Academy"],"PresenterEmail":["cpilla@slabeeber.org","jkamal@scienceleadership.org"],"ScheduleSlotID":61,"ScheduleLocationID":15,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"We would like to host this conversation in room 304 so we can incorporate the makerspace into the discussion.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":5}}