Learning is a vital process for all of us. Below are programs, conferences and seminars I have attended and participated in throughout my career as an educator. For more detail on presentations and talks that I have given, please follow the hyperlinks or visit the “Teaching” page.
2012
National Science Teachers Association National Conference(Indianapolis, Indiana) - Presenter: “The Making of a Lab Rat: The Transformation of One Educator’s Research Experiences into Meaningful Science Curricula” ; Co-Presenter: “A Spiraling Chemistry Curriculum: Mastering Core Chemical Concepts”
Master of Learning Design & Technology (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana) – Degree program completion Summer 2013
National Science Foundation Grant Awardees Conference in Engineering Education (Arlington, Virginia) – RET representative for the University of Notre Dame
2011
Research Experience for Teachers Program (University of Notre Dame) - CVD Furnace Characterization via Long Foil Graphene Growths
Lilly Teacher Creativity Fellowship (Albuquerque, New Mexico; Boulder City, Nevada) – Maximizing our Solar Potential
2010
Research Experience for Teachers Program (University of Notre Dame) - Characterization of Graphene Grown via Chemical Vapor Deposition
National Center for Learning & Teaching in Nanoscale Science & Engineering Summer Program (Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana)
2009
Research Experience for Teachers Program (University of Notre Dame) - Exfoliated Graphene
National Science Foundation Grant Awardees Conference in Engineering Education (Reston, Virginia) – Notre Dame RET poster session presentation
2008
Research Experience for Teacher Program (University of Notre Dame) - Development of a semiconductor based pH meter (ISFET)
Classroom 2.0 LIVE (Chicago, Illinois) - Presentation on Edmodo
2007
Hoosier Association of Science Teachers Conference (Indianapolis, Indiana)
ISACS Conference (Indianapolis, Indiana)
2006
Thinking with Models: An Introduction to NetLogo (Oak Park, Illinois) – Presentation to OPRF faculty
2004
NetLogo Curriculum Development through the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (Northwestern University) – Gas Lab evaluation (Published article of results with acknowledgement from Journal of Science Education Technology, 2009)
NetLogo Workshop (Northwestern University) – coded two NetLogo scripts to model Precipitation and Catalysts. A full list of my models can be found here. Want to play with a model and see how it works? Visit the following pages: Precipitation, Catalyst, Single Replacement.
2003
NetLogo Curriculum Development through the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (Northwestern University) – Gas Lab pilot & data collection
Advanced Placement Chemistry Summer Institute (Chicago, Illinois)
2002
NetLogo Curriculum Development through the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling (Northwestern University) – Gas Lab development
