Texas high schoolers made the raw material for cement and concrete aggregate out of carbon dioxide…
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The Center for Learning with Nature (LWN) is partnering with the Glacier Institute to offer a biomimicry workshop this summer, led by LWN’s senior educator, Megan Schuknecht, along with Adelheid Fischer. The Wild Ideas workshop is a 4-day introduction to the basics of looking to nature for design inspiration. In this…
Director Sam Stier was invited by the Guam Department of Education to deliver the keynote address to a teacher conference in Guam on using bioinspiration with place-based education. Sixty teachers from across the island and the island of Kosrae (Federated States of Micronesia) attended the January conference. As part of…
The Center for Learning with Nature has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore ways of integrating bioinspired innovation into undergraduate biology education. Despite being based on the living world, bioinspired innovation is not typically covered in undergraduate biology. This project will focus especially on integrating…
The Center for Learning with Nature has again been invited by the European Union to help integrate biomimicry into its educational systems. The Center for Learning with Nature will work with several education organizations in five different European countries (The Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and England) to help train…
A 3-year project begun in 2018 — to begin integrating biologically-inspired STEM education into the European Union — is now beginning to come to fruition. Funded by the EU, The Center for Learning with Nature has been working with five non-profit educational organizations from five different countries (the United Kingdom,…
Director Sam Stier again helped lead BioFest, an annual event for several hundred middle school students in the mid-Michigan region. During the two-day outdoor event, students learn how to use the bio-inspired design process and go on to develop their own original design concepts. This year, the 6th annual BioFest…
Pathlight International, a non-profit organization that provides training to teachers in Belize, invited LWN Director Sam Stier to give a one-day, online training to 40 teachers working in primary and middle schools across the country of Belize. It was the first time the teachers had been introduced to using biomimetic…
Director Sam Stier has been invited by NASA to share his experience bringing bio-inspired innovation into K-12 education at the 2020 Virtual Fall Biocene Workshop, hosted by NASA’s Virtual Interchange for Nature-Inspired Exploration (VINE) group. NASA’s VINE group’s mission is, “With inspiration from nature and natural systems as its driving…
The University of Idaho’s College of Education is offering a new class for teachers, using The Center for Learning with Nature’s director Sam Stier’s new book as the class text. The class is taught by Beth Brubaker, the Invent Idaho Invention Convention State Director.
