ExCITeCast

In lieu of our regular jam sessions, members of the Drexel Music & Entertainment Technology Lab collaborated virtually, while in isolation.

This is the first episode of ExCITeByte, a revamped version of the ExCITeCast with a shorter time frame and a new host. In this episode, we'll hear about the Skyscraper Games project and the event that's coming up for it. Special thanks to Justin Moore for our new intro music and Dr. Frank Lee, Corey Arnold, and Ben Ledoux for being on the show!

50th Episode: ExCITeCast Blast from the Past by excitecenter

Best of the Fest: Startup Fest 2018 by excitecenter

The October 2018 ExCITeCast features an interview with Sterling Grimes, Executive Director of Programs for The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice. Learn more about The Fellowship at www.fellowshipbmec.org.

ExCITe Goes Back to School by excitecenter

While many universities slow down during the summer months, Drexel is just the opposite. For Part Three of our Learning Innovation series, we'll look at a handful of the engagement opportunities The ExCITe Center offers for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and beyond. ExCITe's Program Coordinator Jillian Reilly and Associate Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research Jaya Mohan join.

Making Culture is the first in-depth report on K12 Education Makerspaces nationwide. The report, authored by ExCITe Director Youngmoo Kim, Kareem Edouard, Katlyn Alderfer, and Brian Smith, examines the culture behind makerspaces and the impact it can have on the students within these spaces. Postdoctoral fellow and lead researcher on the Making Culture report Kareem Edouard sat down with us to share his findings. We also spoke with Matt Riggan, co-founder of The Workshop School in West Philadelphia. The Workshop School is an alternative high school with a focus on collaboration, building, and hands-on learning. Matt talks about how the culture of The Workshop School shapes his students, and how he and his team are making an effort to create a space that is welcoming and hospitable to all. Download the full Making Culture report: http://drexel.edu/excite/engagement/learning-innovation/making-culture-report/ Learn more about the The Workshop School: http://www.workshopschool.org/

It's never too early to start planning for your future - this month, we explore three ways in which K12 students are able to find engagement opportunities with the ExCITe Center. Meredith Martin of the Science Leadership Academy Middle School talks about her students' involvement with the Center (by creating their own podcast), four SLA Center City students reflect on their recently-concluded externships, and former ExCITe intern and current Drexel sophomore Vriti Khurana talks about her position at the Center and how it's informed her academic experience. Check out SLA's Rovercast here: slamiddle.org/rovercast/?p=home

This month's ExCITeCast is all about STEAM. Project Director for Civic Technologies Brandon Morton and Creative Technologist Co-op Emre Fisher sit down with us to talk about two projects that aim to build capacity in the arts. To learn more about the drone workshop on May 12th, visit the event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/208643373230861/

Dr. Youngmoo Kim, The Director of the ExCITe Center sits down with Dr. Paula Hooper, a seasoned educator and the Assistant Professor of Instruction at NorthWestern University. Paula was the Keynote speaker at the 4th Annual STEAMshop, an event where educators come together to discuss integrated learning. Learn more here! http://drexel.edu/excite/about/steam-education/

Today on the ExCITeCast we talk to Corey Arnold and Erin Truesdell of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio, we talk about their upcoming game they are making in collaboration with the National Science Foundation Hacktion. Hacktion is a mobile game that uses augmented reality to teach about hacking, cyber security, and cyber literacy.

Today everything we do is connected to the internet, we talk to Director of the Auerbach Drexel Cybersecurity Center Steve Weber and president of the Drexel Cyber Dragons Colbert Zhu about what is cyber security and how you can learn and practice it.

In February of 2016, the Director of the ExCITe Center, Youngmoo Kim, began collaborating with composer Lembit Beecher and librettist Hannah Moscovitch to create Sophia’s Forest: an opera that focuses on the interior world of a 9-year-old child, Sophia, who has recently immigrated to the United States. To evoke Sophia’s thoughts and memories, Youngmoo, working with architect Simon Kim and engineer Mark Yim of the University of Pennsylvania, created nine tree-like, sound-producing sculptures as part of the opera’s set. In this podcast we talk with the composer, Lembit Beecher, and two ExCITe Center collaborators who were integral to the sculptures' function, Rich Vallett and Scott DelPrato. Hosted by Alex Jones.

An estimated half of all small businesses in the United States have little-to-no online presence. So, in collaboration with Rebrand Cities, the ExCITe Center will be partnering with the West Philadelphia Corridor Collaborative and the Lancaster Avenue 21 business association to help Philly entrepreneurs get their businesses online. This podcast explores ExCITe's engagement with Rebrand Cities, talking to John Maeda, a key collaborator in the Rebrand Cities project and the Global Head of Computational Design and Inclusion at Automattic; Brandon Morton, the ExCITe Center's AppLab Manager; and Kwaku Botang, the Executive Director of the Lancaster Avenue Business Association. Hosted by Alex Jones.

Saturday, June 17 will culminate in the debut performance of a brand new, original instrument for two ExCITe Center residents. Artist in Residence Peter English and PhD candidate Jeff Gregorio have been working hard for the last year to develop Drumhenge — a circle of 16 drums that have been modified with magnets and code to give off a more electronic, eery sound. Have a listen to learn more about their work or register for the event, which will take place from 7-9 p.m. at Drexel University's Blackbox Theater, at exctie.ticketleap.com. Hosted by Alex Jones.

Meet the people who conduct the research necessary to transform the textiles we interact with everyday into functional technologies more like smartwatches and Apple Watches. This month we talked with the Director of the Shima Seiki Haute Technology Laboratory, Genevieve Dion, and her design assistant, Amy Stoltzfus. Hosted by Alex Jones.

The ExCITe Center's third annual STEAM education workshop took place on January 20, 2017. In this episode we explore some of what we learned and Youngmoo talks with our keynote speaker, Dr. Nettrice Gaskins of Boston Arts Academy about her road to STEAM and how it and afrofuturism shaped their recent production of The Wiz.

Colton Link sits down for a one-on-one conversation with ExCITe's Director Youngmoo Kim to discuss the term learning innovation. This is the full interview between Colon and Youngmoo from the "Laying Out Learning Innovation" podcast.

This month on ExCITeCast we are talking about advancing learning innovation. Colton takes time to sit down with some of the leaders of the Learning Innovation Initiative. Our first guest is the director of the ExCITe Center, Dr. Youngmoo Kim. Colton’s other guest is Dr. Brian Smith, an associate professor from the School of Education. By sitting down with our guests we hope to find out more about what the Learning Innovation Initiative will tell us.