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Forwarded from Science is Cool Unconferences:
For all 6-12 Grade Educators
ScIC and The Biomimicry Institute presents:
Youth Design Challenge Educator Workshop
Thursday, September 1
2-3pm Pacific Time
*Free professional development certificates will be sent to all who attend live.
The Biomimicry Institute’s Youth Design Challenge (YDC) is a project-based learning experience that asks middle and high school teams to design bio-inspired ideas that can provide solutions to critical real-world problems. It provides a framework for formal and informal educators to introduce biomimicry as an engineering design strategy, to integrate relevant purposeful STEM experiences, and to provide engaging instruction aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
Imagine your students creating designs like last years winners!
One group of students took on local urban flooding and designed a solution inspired by mangroves and beavers. Another student group created a device to slow the speed of wildfires and reduce damage that includes nature-inspired strategies from Banksia seed pods and Crossopteryx bark.
This challenge, all of the Biomimicry curriculum, and this PD webinar are all free and open to all students, in every country, including homeschoolers.
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