2025 Synopsys-Sonoma County STEAM Showcase
Please join us for the 2025 Synopsys-Sonoma County STEAM Showcase! The STEAM Showcase will be March 4th, 2025 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds. The theme for this year is "Restore, Revive, Empower, THRIVE!" This free event, open to all students TK-12th grade in the county, invites students to show projects incorporating at least two areas of STEAM. During the full day Showcase, students will present their projects and engage in hands-on STEAM activities and challenges. Students may enter the showcase as individuals or groups, which can be as large as a whole class. Each project should have a mentor (teacher, counselor, parent, after school leader, etc.). The first step is for a mentor to submit an Intent to Participate form. Please contact Kelly Mackura (kmackura@scoe.org), Danielle Brusnahan (dbrusnahan@scoe.org), or Penny Cleary (steamshowcase@scoe.org) for additional information.
2025 Event Details and Resources
Who: Sonoma County Students and Educators TK-12
When: Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Where: Sonoma County Fairgrounds & Events Center (1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa, CA)
Theme: Restore, Revive, Empower, THRIVE!
Inviting all ecoinnovators and eco heroes to design a project around this year’s theme exploring ecological justice and human impact on the Earth! Students may choose to focus on a human caused and/or natural phenomena that in some way relates to ecological justice and human interconnection with ecosystems.
Possible Guiding Questions:
- How do humans interconnect with and impact ecosystems?
- How can we innovate and design solutions to make sure all people have access to clean and safe environments regardless of race, class, gender and/or ability?
Pre-Event Training and Deadlines:
- Next Virtual Information Session - Wed., Oct. 23, 2024, 4:15-5:15pm - Join us via this Zoom link.
Learn more about how you can support students of all ages as they create and showcase STEAM-powered projects at our 2025 STEAM Showcase!
- Tuesday, September 17, 2024 (4-5pm): STEAM Showcase 2025 Virtual Information Meeting. The zoom link is https://sonomacoe.zoom.us/j/89483719986 (a recording is available by emailing Kelly Mackura, kmackura@scoe.org)
- Wednesday, December 4, 2024: Deadline to submit Intent to Participate form.
- Friday, January 17, 2025: Disclaimer form submitted by teacher/project mentor
- Tuesday, January 28, 2025: Registration Google Form DUE
Resources
STEAM Showcase Info Session Video (Sept 2024)
STEAM Showcase in the News
Student Film 2024 STEAM Showcase
Read this Press Democrat article about the 2024 STEAM Showcase
This Press Democrat article describes how the first-ever STEAM Showcase, an action-packed event, drew more than 350 students from around the county!
SCOE’s shift to the STEAM Showcase was highlighted by a national organization in this article in MakerPromise.
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