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.

This month on ExCITeCast we are talking about student organizations housed at ExCITe. Colton takes time to sit down with some of the leaders from each of these groups. Our first guest from Theme Park Engineering and Design Group is Harrison Katz, who is the president of the club. Colton’s other guest is the founder of the Drexel Hackathon and Coding Club, Ryan Young. By sitting down with our guests we hope to find out more about their respective student organizations.

This time on ExCITeCast we are talking about faculty fellowship. Colton takes some time to sit down with the ExCITe Center’s faculty fellows to ask questions about their fellowships. Our first guest is Dr. Shivanthi Anandan, who takes some time to discuss her views of the faculty fellowship. Our other guest for this month’s podcast is Dr. Stefan Rank. He works in gaming and artificial intelligence with a passion for exploring performance and perception of personality.

On this episode, Sarah Juma speaks with two members of the Drexel community - Raja Schaar, a new faculty member in the Product Design department and Mike Koerner, a biomedical engineering student about design in Philadelphia.

An interview with Dr. Nancy Songer, Dean of the School of Education at Drexel University, about her former work with STEM curriculums in city schools and her current work at Drexel University.

Often, when we think of education, we think think of learning different subjects in isolation in a classroom setting. In reality though, learning happens all around us, in many different ways, with knowledge of one topic informing another. Sarah Juma talks with Philadelphia Eagles player Malcom Jenkins about the Malcom Jenkins Foundation, an after school and summer STEAM program.

How do we use technology in politics? We talk with Dan Shultz, from the National Archives, to find out.

Should all research be free and open to the public? What are the implications? For this podcast, we sat down with a panel to discuss this and more. For supplemental content, click here: https://storify.com/excitecenter/open-access-research

Much of the discussion around diversity in STEM and STEAM involves reaching out to young students to encourage them to join these fields. How do we encourage students interested in STEM/STEAM once students get to university, and make the university experience better for students from underrepresented backgrounds? For supplemental content, click here: https://storify.com/excitecenter/diversity-in-stem-and-steam

Drexel University is a global school. In this podcast, we examine how widespread the university's efforts are.

In today's episode, we talk about the Drexel Food Lab, an interdisciplinary research group that aims to solve real-world problems in the areas of recipe development, product development, and product ideation. Interviewees: Alexandra Zeitz, Manager of the Food Lab Jonathan Deutsh, Ph.D, Professor of Culinary Arts and Food Sciences and overseer of the Food Lab Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound https://soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

In this episode, we talk about how students at Drexel can enhance their STEM degree through the DragonsTeach program. Interviewees: Matthew VanKouwenberg, Master Teacher at DragonsTeach Nicole Naranjo, Student in DragonsTeach Isaac Quelly, Student in DragonsTeach Follow us on on Twitter! @excitecenter Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Current Civic Innovation Co-op, Madeline Demas, sets out to understand what civic innovation means and what that looks like in Philadelphia. Interviewees: -Jim Saksa: Reporter, Plan Philly -Jess Solomon: Director, Art in Praxis -Seema Iyer: Associate Director, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance -Julianna Reyes: Lead Reporter, Technical.ly Philly -Tony Abraham: Lead Reporter, Generocity.org -Mo Manklang: Community Manager, Generocity.org -Christopher Wink: co-founder and Editorial Director, Technically Media Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Is college doomed? Hear about the ways that students are moving out of the traditional classroom in a movement we're referring to as the DIYification of Higher Education. Interviewees: -Kevin Egan, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry -Amanda Kraft, Kevin Jablonowski, Peyton Parrott: Custom Designed Major Students Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

The Shima Seiki Haute Tech Lab was established in 2012 as an interdisciplinary research hub concerning matters of smart textiles. In this podcast, hear about the current projects going on at Shima. Interviewees: -Genevieve Dion, Director of the Shima Seiki Haute Tech Lab -Chelsea Knittel, Grad Student working on research projects at Shima Seiki Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Social Entrepreneurship by excitecenter

Hear about the expansive work Opera Philadelphia does to expose students to opera and support art education throughout the city.

Hear about how Opera Philadelphia helps facilitates and supports new works and spreads art education around Philadelphia. Interviewees: -Sarah Williams: New Works Administrator, Opera Philadelphia -Mike Bolton: Vice President of Community Programs, Opera Philadelphia Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the summer activity happening at Drexel and the opportunities Drexel provides to its community and to its student body. Interviewees: -Joanne Ferroni: Director of University and Community Partnerships -Bao Pham, Shaun Barry, Ibukunoluwa Fatoki: STAR Scholars Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Hear how technology plays a vital role in civic engagement and local participation. Interviewees: -Paul Wright: co-founder of Open Access Philadelphia -Dawn McDougall: executive director of Code for Philly Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Full Interview with Paul Wright from Open Access Philadelphia by excitecenter

Hear about the outreach work of the Entrepreneurial Game Studio (EGS)as well as the work of student companies. Interviewees: -Arianna Gass: Program Manager for EGS -Travis Chandler, Zach Howell, Nick Rome: EGS students Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Hear from a past and current Seed funded projects. Interviewees: -Kara Lindstrom: Seed Project Creator -Michael Koo, Michelle Rogers, Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness: A Free Repository of Material Things -Paul Diefenbach, Margaret O'Neil: Kollect Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the experience the two co-op students have had working at ExCITe. Interviewees: -Allison Frauenpreis: ExCITe Assitant Co-op -Maren Larsen: Civic Innovation Co-op Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound @chronicles-of-sound

Hear about how Drexel and the Drexel community are inspiring an Entrepreneurial mindset. Interviewees: -Patrick FitzGerald: DreamIt Ventures -Chuck Sacco: Close School of Entrepreneurship and Baiada Institute Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the work ExCITe, Drexel, and partners are doing in the world of STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. Interviewees: -Brian Smith: Professor in School of Education, Drexel University -Jeff Gregorio: PhD in Drexel's Music and Entertainment Technology (MET) lab -Tracey Welson-Rossman: Founder, CEO TechGirlz Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the work being done at Drexel to be better engaged in our local community through the efforts of the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships and the West Philadelphia Early Childhood Education Initiative. Interviewees: -Jenn Britton: Launch Director for the Dornsife Center -Sarah Steltz: Associate Director, University and Community Partnerships -Rose Samuel-Evans: Assistant Director of Community Outreach -Maria Walker: West Philadelphia Early Childhood Education Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the important outreach being done to give access to computer science in K-12 education and in Mobile App development in Drexel's App Lab. Interviewees: -Jake Baskin: Director of District Management for Code.org -Matt Prockup, Mark Koh, Brendon Barnes, Kevin Jablonowski: Drexel App Lab Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the future of workforce development and digital badges with Digital On Ramps. Interviewees: -Andy Stutzman: Senior Web Architect, Digital on Ramps -Mike Eleey: Project Lead, Digital On Ramps -Amy Wen: Project Coordinator, Digital On Ramps -Joe Dickinson: Program Analyst, Digital On Ramps Song Credit Artist: Chronicles of Sound Song: Soo Station Album: Landscape Year: 2012 www.chroniclesofsound.com facebook.com/chroniclesofsound soundcloud.com/chronicles-of-sound

Hear about the incredible multidisciplinary research done between expressive robotics and digital knitting lab. Interviewees: -Chelsea Knittel- PhD student researcher, Shima Seiki Haute Tech Lab -Ryan Young- Undergraduate student researcher, HUBO and expressive robotics -Rich Valet- PhD student researcher, Shima Seiki Haute Tech Lab and HUBO

Listen to this "Introduction to ExCITeCast" for an overview of the ExCITe Center and a preview of what to expect in upcoming full-feature podcasts.