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Day 1 – Friday, September 15
12:00 ——- Registration Opens
1:00-4:00 ——- Professional Development (Parallel sessions)
- Science Through Story: Strategies for science communication adapted from film development – Sara ElShafie
- Yes, and..Creating New Performances for Success – Marian Rich
- Whose idea is it anyway? – Nancy Watt and Carolyn Sealfon
4:00-6:00 ——- ( Break )
6:00 ——- Reception
6:45 ——- Welcome Address – Raquell Holmes
7:30 ——- LIVE: Living Improv Experiment
Day 2 – Saturday, September 16
8:30-9:00 ——- Coffee & Snacks
9:00-10:30 —— Parallel Tracks
- Plane-Spotting at the Tropicana: Making Connections in a Research-Based Art Practice – Benjamin Bray
- Collaborative exhibitions: Insights into cutting-edge research through the visual arts – Sara Grady
- Intersections of Physics and Performance for Physicists of Color – Simone Hyater-Adams
- Behind the scenes at Curiosity: A web series capturing the making of a scientist – Sunada Prabhu-Gaunkar
- Computing and Cultural History: A Dialogue – George Thiruvathukal and David B. Dennis
10:30-10:40 —— ( Break )
10:40-12:10 —— Parallel Tracks
- Mentoring Sessions at Minority Serving Institutions: Sharing Research Career Experiences with Undergraduate Students – Sofya Borinskaya
- Writing Science for Your Audience – Andrea Gwosdow
- STEAM Summer Camp: Service-Learning Project in The Gambia, West Africa – Nadeene Riddick
- Bridging the Divide – Nancy Watt
- Unpacking Unconscious Bias – Feldman Ornato
- The Art of Scientific Storytelling: Transform Your Science through Narrative Craft – Rafael Luna
12:10-1:00 ——- Lunch: Ordering in as a group and individuals pay their own way
1:00-2:30 ——- Parallel Tracks
- Science on the Stage: How Science Plays Are Building Interdisciplinary Bridges in the Classroom and On-Stage – Denise Gillman
- Creating a collaborative community of independent scholars at the Ronin Institute – Alexander Lancaster
- Talk Science to Me: A Case Study Across Bill Nye’s Audiences – Annabelle Lolinco
- Science (as) Culture: A multi-disciplinary highly participatory discussion format for community based scientific learning and doing – Shane Mayack
- A Physicists Perspective on Performance Based Training for Scientists: “How can you have an opinion about the right answer?” – Nicholas Gross
- STEM from Dance -Emma Shockley
- Shine– Beth Osnes
2:30-2:40 ——- Break
2:45-3:55 ——- Share Faire
- Teaching Science in Unconventional Settings – Andrea Gwosdow
- Launching History Communication: Lessons from a Multidisciplinary Approach – Eric Olson and Jason Steinhauer
- Storytelling for STEM with ConnectAnd Improv – Ellen Feldman Ornato
- (Cancelled)
Heroic Improv– Mary Tyszkiewicz - Building Community Science: Unscripted Science Explorations – Raquell Holmes
- Change Student Attitudes toward IT – Anu Gokhale
- Serious Play for Cross-Disciplinary Science – Camilla Jensen
- Color & Children – Maria Battor
3:55-4:05 ——- ( Break )
4:05-5:35 ——- Parallel Tracks
- Improvisational Games – Carolyn Kroehler
- Better version of you – Mia Anderson
5:35-5:45 ——- ( Break )
5:45-6:45 ——- Keynote Address – Hooray for Hollywood Science! Ann Merchant
6:45-8:00 ——- Dinner (self organized groups)
8:00 ——- Suggested activity: View from a Bridge
Day 3 – Sunday, September 17
8:30-9:00 ——- Coffee & Snacks
9:00-10:00 ——- Invited Plenary – How Do You Know? Tom Rudin
10:00-10:10 ——- ( Break )
10:10-11:40 ——- Interactive sessions
- Fusion Science Theater – Holly Walter Kerby <Location>
- Stage Chemistry – Anna Gelman <Location>
11:40-11:50 ——- ( Break )
11:50-1:15 ——- Finale & Wrap-up
1:15 ——- Post-CESTEMER Socializing