FEBRUARY 2012
STEAM Education headquarters have moved to Richmond, VA.

Late January afforded me the opportunity to work with the Southern University Lab School ( sulabschool.enschool.org/ ) in Baton Rouge through the arrangement of Lisa Delpit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Delpit ) - this K-12 school is looking to become the first certified STEAM school in the US for implementation in 2012-2013!

STEAM Education lesson plans are now being delivered and undergoing final editing at Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Mechanicsville, VA, (just outside of Richmond's city limits.) Based on this work over the next five months, MS level STEAM educational packets are going to be released on the website.
 
Thursday of this week, Feb. 2nd, I will deliver the keynote address at a STEAM conference near SanFran: http://cocoschools.org/edsvcs/steam_colloquium.html

Saturday February 11th the STEAM Education Big Ideas Fest talk is scheduled for release! http://bigideasfest.org/2011-big-ideas-fest/2011-speakers-big-ideas-fest on their YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/bigideasfest

JANUARY 2012
"With mathematics being the underlying language of the universe, using and understanding the combinations of human variations of this primal language (including; music, speech, written language, body symbolism - dance, physical symbolism, technology, engineering, art, etc.) are ideal STEAM ways to connect concepts across the discipline bases." - GY - Jan, 2012

This new year brings exciting developments for STEAM Education - in January a University Lab School starts the formal transition to becoming a STEAM-accredited school, in early February Ms. Yakman keynotes a STEAM conference in the SF, CA area and on the horizon are numerous school systems, museums, government agencies and private educational industries working towards various partnerships and certifications with STEAM Education.

DECEMBER 2011
Please view our first attempt at an intro video at: http://t.co/6CvmcnzT

DECEMBER 2011
Georgette Yakman, founder of STEAM Education, was just announced as an invited speaker for the Big Ideas Fest in Half Moon Bay, CA on December 5, 2011. This fest is a project of The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME). The title of her talk is: "STEAM: Learning That is Representative of the Whole World and How it Works Naturally "

See the line-up of chosen speakers: http://bigideasfest.org/2011-big-ideas-fest/2011-speakers-big-ideas-fest

"The annual Big Ideas Fest is an extraordinary immersion into collaboration and design that focuses on transformational change in K-20 education. Creative doers and thinkers from diverse levels of education gather to learn from and share with each other. Breaking down silos and empowering champions, Big Ideas Fest places learning at the front and center of all that we do. The participants are inspirational. The work is dynamic. And the results are revolutionary.

Big Ideas Fest believes answers and innovation are all around us. The event gathers top minds to share their work and ideas in an environment that encourages risk-taking and overall imagining of the impossible.

Big Ideas Fest's unique format includes RapidFire talks from leading innovators; interactive networking with education's movers and shakers; and Action Collab design-thinking labs that engage groups to brainstorm, prototype, and ultimately create scaleable solutions to cumbersome issues in education."

AUGUST 11, 2011
Southwest Times, Pulaski, VA newspaper article about former teacher's work being recognized internationally:  http://www.southwesttimes.com/news.php?id=6192

JUNE  2011
STE@M will be formally introduced at the first two STEM/STEAM conferences in Korea at two universities in Daegu and Seoul, Kyungpook National University and Ewha Woman’s University. G. Yakman will co-keynote the conferences attended by: professors, teachers, businesses and governmental education leaders from around the country. STEAM has been declared by the minister of education as the new way to teach K-12 nationwide starting next year. It is very exciting, humbling and an honor for those involved in STEAM from the beginning to see six years of research and small scale implementation take off at a national level in one of the most advanced countries in the world! Thank you to Dr. Hjuksoo Kwon and Dr. Hyongyung Lee for creating the avenues and arranging the details of this opportunity for me to come and meet with others developing STE@M programs.

JANUARY, 2011
STE@M has just been approved by the Korean Ministry of Education to be an integral part of a K-12 initiative to have a new creative way to teach science education across the nation. A link to one of the many Korean newspaper articles announcing this news can be seen by clicking here.

DECEMBER, 2010
The concept of STE@M is published in the MassTEC December Newsletter on Page 5 (MassTEC = Massachusetts Technology Education Engineering Collaborative) -- you can visit http://masstec.org or click here to see the article.