Making STEM Cities: Education Ideas and Strategies, for Policymakers to Students
The State of the Education – #EducationDialogue on Making STEM Cities: Education Ideas and Strategies, for Policymakers to Students by Dr Cliff Zingtraff
Greetings from Impact and Policy Research Institute (IMPRI), New Delhi! On behalf of Center for ICT for Development (CICTD), IMPRI, we invite you to
The State of the Education – #EducationDialogue
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: November 9, 2020; Monday
Time: 20:30 IST (GMT+5:30)/9:00 CST (GMT-6:00)
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live
Speaker:
Dr Cliff Zingtraff
Chief Learning Officer of the San Antonio, Museum of Science and Technology (SAMSAT), Texas, USA
Moderator: 
Prof Sachidanand Sinha
Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi
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Brief Description of the talk: Making STEM Cities: Education Ideas and Strategies, for Policymakers to Students
How can education can help create an equitable society? A current and high-profile topic is moving from lecture-and-test to real-world experiences. Dr. Cliff Zintgraff will share stories and strategies from his work creating real-world experiences for students. You’ll hear about students addressing the problems of their cities, and about partnerships that take school far beyond textbooks. He’ll share examples of stakeholders playing their best role regardless of their setting—stakeholders including policymakers, classroom teachers, students, and cross-sector partners–all working to improve quality-of-life for students, families, and communities, including those with the greatest need. His talk will draw on three sources: SA (San Antonio) Smart: The Mayor’s K-12 Smart City Challenge; his recent book STEM in the Technopolis: The Power of STEM Education in Regional Technology Policy; and his latest academic paper on aligning the stakeholders in education from philosophy to practice.
About Dr Cliff Zingtraff
Dr. Cliff Zintgraff is Chief Learning Officer of the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology (SAMSAT), a museum and STEM Center in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He assumed this role after leading a merger between SAMSAT and non-profit SASTEMIC as its Executive Director. At SAMSAT, Dr. Zintgraff is leading education efforts, helping define strategy for a museum in partnership with Port San Antonio, the Kelly Air Force Base redevelopment board. He is building cross-sector partnerships and educational experiences that serve local and city-wide organizations, including many underserved students in the immediate area of Port San Antonio, with the aim of transforming the lives of students, families and communities by placing them on the path to STEM careers.
Previously, Dr. Zintgraff held an appointment at the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. Around core research on inquiry learning, he led programs on entrepreneurship, technology commercialization, STEM education, and STEM education’s role in regional economic development. Across fifty international trips, he led as Principal Investigator, managed, or taught in programs in the U.S., Portugal, Colombia, India, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Hungary, Cyprus, Nepal, Taiwan, Germany, and the UK. Among these programs are the Financial Services Innovator Certification (Texas); STEAM-LABS (Medellín, Colombia); Nexus Startup Hub@American Center (Delhi, India); South Asia Connect; and the University Technology Enterprise Network (UTEN Portugal). He is lead editor of STEM in the Technopolis: The Power of STEM Education in Regional Technology Policy, published in June of 2020.
In his first career, he led software development efforts building medical imaging and secure telecommunications products, and he founded an educational technology company building STEM-focused products. Dr. Zintgraff holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Trinity University, an M.S. in Technology Commercialization from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Learning Technologies from the University of North Texas.
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