Drumbeat/DML science fair

Thursday, March 3rd
7:00—9:00pm   Cocktails, snacks, mingling and exploring

Where? The Mozilla Science Fair at the Digital Media and Learning 2011 conference will be held in the promenade at the conference hotel venue. This is on the 2nd floor

Remember Science Fairs in grade school?  The Mozilla version involves grown-ups and cocktails, but it's pretty much the same concept.  Smart people who are passionate about their super-cool projects -- research, learning models, web projects, software, experiments -- want to show you what they're working on and get your feedback and ideas. They'll bring out their prototypes, wireframes, maps, charts, and crazy ideas while you explore and engage. 

Check out video of our last science fair, in Barcelona.

Who's participating?

These projects are confirmed as of February 22:

	Critical Commons
	Presented by: Steve Anderson (USC)
	Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, reasearch and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators.

	Fab@Home
	Presented by: Jeff Lipton
	Fab@Home will change the way we live. It is a platform of printers and programs which can produce functional 3D objects. It is designed to fit on your desktop and within your budget. Fab@Home is supported by a global, open-source community of professionals and hobbyists, innovating tomorrow, today.

	Hackasaurus
	Presented by: Atul Varma (Mozilla) Jess Klein (NYCLN)
	Hackasaurus is a set of tools that are under development to help teenagers closely review, remix and redesign the Web—actively engaging with the digital world around them.

	Peer 2 Peer University
	Presented by: Philipp Schmidt
	The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU replaces the traditional top-down model. Anyone can get involved to organize or join a study group, and everyone learns together, using existing open content.

	Gendered Ads Remixer
	Presented by: Jonathan McIntosh (Rebellious Pixels)
	Embedded in the 25,000 TV commercials children are subjected to every year are a set of antiquated social norms and values about gender roles. See how simple remix video tools can be used in seminar settings to deconstruct and then creatively re-frame gendered TV commercials.

	School of Webcraft + Badges
	Presented by: Erin Knight (Mozilla), Alex Halavais, Ruth Schmidt
	Mozilla and P2PU have teamed up to create the School of Webcraft, a powerful new way to teach and learn web developer skills. School of Webcraft courses are 100% free and globally accessible. The Assessment and Badge pilot introduces assessments and associated badges into the School of Webcraft, the first step toward real peer developer accreditation.

	Roadtrip Nation
	Presented by: Annie Mais (Roadtrip Nation)
	Roadtrip Nation empowers you to define your own road in life instead of traveling down someone else's. We encourage you to engage in self-construction, rather than mass production. We encourage you to be proactive and actively participate in defining your future by hitting the road and learning from Leaders who have resisted The Noise of conformity and stayed true to themselves.

	WhyReef
	Presented by: The Field Museum
	Visit WhyReef, grab an air tank and SCUBA mask, and you’re off to an adventure in the coral reefs of Whyville! You’ll discover beautiful coral reef species from the Harlequin Shrimp to the Giant Triton Snail to the White-Tip Reef Shark. Learn to count and identify them to help monitor the populations living on each reef, just like scientists do.

	TangibleK
	Presented by: Elizabeth Kazakoff, Louise Flannery
	The TangibleK project encompasses a 20-hour curriculum and a programming environment called CHERP (Creative Hybrid Environment for Robotic Programming), a hybrid tangible/graphical language for programming robots such as LEGO® Mindstorms™. CHERP programs are constructed using interlocking wooden blocks labeled with child-friendly icons and/or their corresponding on-screen counterparts.

	Stonesoup
	Presented by: Enric Senabre Hidalgo
	Stonesoup is a repository of ‘gimkana', a type of participatory scavenger hunt which uses physical landmarks within an urban environment to engage youth in learning about history, urban issues, and personal identity. Stonesoup evolves the gimkana by making the open web a classroom and playground.

	Scratch
	Presented by: Andrés Monroy-Hernández
	Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu) is a programming environment that enables young people to create their own interactive digital media (such as stories, games, animations) and then share their creations online.

	Echo Park Film Center
	Presented by: Paolo Davanzo
	Since 2002, Echo Park Film Center has provided a dynamic creative meeting place for filmmakers and film lovers of all ages to come together in celebrating the magic of the moving image.

	Learning Networks
	Presented by: Jess Klein (NYCLN)
	The New Youth City Learning Network is a group of cultural institutions working together to create and connect learning opportunities for local middle and high school-aged youth in New York.

	Future Class
	Presented by: Jade Elizabeth Davis
	Three graduate students, two undergraduate students, one recent alum, no syllabus. This is FutureClass, a collaborative independent study on a mission to completely reinvent institutional teaching and learning.

	YouMedia Chicago
	Presented by: Taylor Bayless (CPL) Mike Hawkins (Digital Youth Network)
	YouMedia Chicago is an innovative, 21st century teen learning space housed at the Chicago Public Library's downtown Harold Washington Library Center. YOUmedia was created to connect young adults, books, media, mentors, and institutions throughout the city of Chicago in one dynamic space designed to inspire collaboration and creativity. YouMedia is a partnership between the Chicago Public Library and the Digital Youth Network.

	Popcorn and butter
	Presented by: Ben Moskowitz
	The Popcorn project is about adding meta-data to HTML5 video. Butter is the point and click authoring tool from WebMadeMovies, Mozilla's open video lab, to enable anybody to easily make popcorn videos. Open video book report, anybody?

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