Students For Innovation Advocacy Day May 10th 2023

What is Students For Innovation: Advocacy Day

Illinois educators and students are doing amazing, innovative things in the classroom every single day. At IDEA, our hope is to give these students and educators a platform to exemplify the importance of this innovative learning.

With this in mind, 30+ years ago, IDEA began hosting an annual one-day event at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield. Students from across the state are selected through an application process to present their innovative projects. Formally known as TECH 20xx, we have re-branded this event to better reflect its mission…

To amplify student voices by demonstrating innovative learning occurring in Illinois schools. These demonstrations will inspire legislatures and key stakeholders and highlight the importance of funding innovative practices that will drive life-long learning for both students and educators. Innovation takes funding, and is a critical component to our future.

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App Inventor: Creating
Apps for Mobile Devices

Pleasant Plains High School

Students will provide examples of how they have created apps using MIT App Inventor to help solve everyday problems. The Illinois Learning Standards provided the students with ways to enhance their knowledge within the curriculum by using technology for critically thinking through real world problems and the development of solutions.

Mr. John DeWeese, Lily Hartshorn, Ben Morgan, Sophia Smith & Adrian Kim

Websites used for Computer Science Principles course

https://appinventor.mit.edu/
https://codehs.com/
https://trinket.io/python3
https://www.codecademy.com/
https://pixlr.com/
https://www.freesoundeffects.com/

Assembly Line: 3D Printing

Prairie-Hills ESD 144

Students at the S.T.E.A.M Academy were tasked with creating an assembly line to produce a new prototype. The students decided that their assembly line would produce a new water bottle and a box of chocolates. During the design process Jamboard was used to brainstorm product ideas, learning notebooks were developed using Google Slides, and TinkerCad was utilized to 3D print the prototypes.

Ms. McNabb, Brooklynn
Cooperwood, Micah Scott
& Ava Kennedy

Augmented Reality & Civics

AlWood CUSD 225

Students created visuals to represent different topics in U.S. History and Government. Using desktop devices and augmented reality apps the students then created graphics and information to expand upon those topics. Using an augmented reality app, students attached those graphics and designs to be viewed through internet enabled devices. AR created using Halo AR (https://haloar.app/)

Mr. Jared Bruening, Sam Keever, Kaylie Smith
& Rylee Swanson