Celebration of Learning 2018: Special Projects
Anna Pfalzgraf
Project advisor: Dr. Lena Hann, public health
+IMPACT Table in the Brew
The Gerber Center, 4th Floor, 10:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Table in the Brew is designed to create awareness about +IMPACT. +IMPACT encourages open dialogue among students regarding sexual health, sexual assault and healthy relationships through educational campaigns on campus. We utilize feminist perspectives, trauma-informed care and cultural diversity when discussing these topics. +IMPACT will always be a safe space for survivors and bystanders to be able to seek information, support and resources.
Creativity Pop-Ups
Various times and locations, 9:30 a.m.-4:45 p.m.
Various creative events and interactive possibilities will take place throughout the day and across campus.
Dr. Forrest Stonedahl
Project advisor: Dr. Forrest Stonedahl, mathematics and computer science
Augustana Invitational Robotics Challenge 2018
Hanson 102, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
We will host the 3rd Annual Augustana Invitational Robotics Challenge. This competition involves student teams from Augustana and potentially several other schools in the region with robots they have designed, built and programmed. This year's challenge task involves the careful relocation of soda pop cans.
Dr. Danielle Beliveau-Derion, Berni Carmack, Anna Dispensa, Madeline Kohlbeck, Peyton Achs, Allison Brinker, Shelby Grandt, Garrin Jost, Sarah Menage, Gina Superczynski, Meg Klocke, Andrea Pardo, Emily Cassity
Project advisor: Dr. Danielle Beliveau-Derion, education
Earth Day Celebration of Learning
*Notes: Not open to the public
Augustana elementary education majors will host an Earth Day Celebration of Learning with Longfellow Liberal Arts School’s kindergarten students. The education majors have planned literacy lessons around the Earth Day theme to teach Longfellow students about the importance of the three Rs: reduce, reuse and recycle. The event will begin with a recreation of Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax and then the Longfellow students will divide into three groups and rotate through each of the reduce, reuse and recycle lessons. The Longfellow students will learn how to help our environment through a series of environmental awareness lessons and the Augustana students will be able to use teaching strategies that they have learned in their education methods courses to engage and support learning in an interdisciplinary approach with young children.
Ashley Adams, Jeff Foltz, Cora Habeger, Brittany Hatlestad, Dakotah Kinsella, Caitlyn Lecour, Rachel McLeod, Tracy Pham, Juliana Silva, Kari Vance, Ines Urquizo, Alivia Lowery
Project advisors: Dr. Shara Stough, Dr. Rupa Gordon and Dr. Ian Harrington, psychology; Dr. Scott Gehler, biology
NeurdFest: Engaging Elementary and College Students in Brain Awareness
*Note: Not open to the public
Augustana’s neuroscience program’s annual brain awareness outreach event, NeurdFest, is in its fourth year. Since 2015, we have brought second-grade students from Longfellow Liberal Arts School to campus to learn about the brain. For several of those years, the Longfellow teachers have prepared their students for the event by reading the book Your Fantastic Elastic Brain: Stretch It, Shape It, written by JoAnn Deak and illustrated by Sarah Ackerley. While on campus on the morning of the Celebration of Learning, as many as 50 elementary students learn about the general functions of the brain, how the brain engages with sensory information, how brain cells transmit information, how the brains of different animals compare, and, perhaps of greatest practical significance, why it is important to practice brain safety, all through a series of interactive exhibits. As facilitators of these same exhibits, our student volunteers learn how to engage others with the academic discipline in which most of them have chosen to major.