Events By Semester

Fall 2021

• Chicago Pre-College Science & Engineering Program (ChiS&E)
  Friday, October 15, 2021 - 12:00
• Hope for the Future: Reaching, Teaching, and Empowering to Prioritize Academic Achievement and Child Well-Being
  Friday, November 19, 2021 - 12:00

Fall 2019

• PAGES: Progressing through the Ages: Global Change, Evolution, and Societal Well-being
  Friday, October 11, 2019 - 12:00
• IT Accessibility at the University of Illinois
  Friday, October 25, 2019 - 12:00
• A Laser Light Show to Teach Coordinates
  Friday, November 8, 2019 - 12:00

Spring 2019

• Those Not Chosen
  Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:00
• The Reciprocity Equation
  Friday, March 8, 2019 - 12:00
• Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching: What do familiar challenges look like in a brave, new world?
  Friday, March 29, 2019 - 12:00
• Updates coming soon!
  Monday, September 30, 2019 - 23:45

Fall 2018

• Mathematics and Science Education: Where have we come from and where are we going?
  Friday, October 12, 2018 - 12:00
• [CANCELLED] The Rise and Fall of International Comparative Studies in Math Education
  Friday, October 26, 2018 - 12:00
• Weaknesses in Preservice Teacher’s Computational Skills and Understandings
  Friday, November 2, 2018 - 12:00
• Math Lessons from a School-University Partnership
  Friday, November 30, 2018 - 12:00

Spring 2018

• Exponential Educators: How Can Education Match the Speed of Innovation?
  Friday, February 23, 2018 - 12:00
• No Homework? No Problem
  Friday, March 30, 2018 - 12:00
• Math Teachers, Auto Mechanics, and Internet Education in the 90s
  Friday, April 6, 2018 - 12:00
• Three Mathematicians Walked into a Bar
  Friday, April 20, 2018 - 12:00

Fall 2017

• Science Fiction Films in the Classroom – Teaching Science through Bad Examples
  Friday, September 8, 2017 - 12:00
• Eclipses as Heavenly Laboratories: Launching Revolutions in General Relativity and Exoplanets
  Friday, September 29, 2017 - 12:00
• OCTOBER 13, 2017: Eclipses as Heavenly Laboratories: Launching Revolutions in General Relativity and Exoplanets
  Friday, October 13, 2017 - 12:00
• Researcher-Practitioner Partnerships in K-8 Integrated Computer Science Education
  Friday, October 20, 2017 - 12:00
• Have Screwdriver: Will Hack!
  Friday, November 3, 2017 - 12:00

Spring 2017

• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, January 27, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, February 3, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, February 10, 2017 - 12:00
• St. Elmo Brady STEM Academy: The Importance of STEM Outreach to the Community and to You
  Friday, February 17, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, February 24, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 3, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 10, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 17, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 24, 2017 - 12:00
• Hunger in the Local Community
  Friday, March 31, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, April 7, 2017 - 12:00
• Solar Urbana-Champaign 2.0
  Friday, April 14, 2017 - 12:00
• 4-H: Out-of-School STEAM and Life Skill Development
  Friday, April 21, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, April 28, 2017 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, May 5, 2017 - 12:00

Fall 2016

• EdCampCU at Pygmalion Festival
  Friday, September 2, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, September 9, 2016 - 12:00
• Tap In Leadership Academy: Our Six Years of Leadership in Academic Enrichment and Student Empowerment
  Friday, September 16, 2016 - 12:00
• MathTeacherLink: A Retrospective Look
  Friday, September 23, 2016 - 12:00
• Ctrl-Z Robotics Team
  Friday, September 30, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, October 7, 2016 - 12:00
• The GRASP Project: A "Hands In" Approach to the Design of Learning Environments
  Friday, October 14, 2016 - 12:00
• Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment (iSEE): Vision and Activities
  Friday, October 21, 2016 - 12:00
• Cuba, Education, and Scratch: Insights and Opportunities
  Friday, October 28, 2016 - 12:00
• Being on the School Board: Thoughts on Keeping a Balance
  Friday, November 4, 2016 - 12:00
• Leveraging Technology for Interactive Pedagogy
  Friday, November 11, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 18, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 25, 2016 - 12:00
• Cooking with Stored Solar Energy in C-U, The Navajo Nation, and Haiti
  Friday, December 2, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, December 9, 2016 - 12:00

Spring 2016

• Renewable Energy at the University of Illinois
  Friday, January 29, 2016 - 12:00
• Getting Started with Minecraft in the Classroom
  Friday, February 5, 2016 - 12:00
• Champaign-Urbana Cradle 2 Career
  Friday, February 12, 2016 - 12:00
• The Harmony of Numbers
  Friday, February 19, 2016 - 12:00
• Engineering Outreach at the University of Illinois
  Friday, February 26, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 4, 2016 - 12:00
• EdCampCU: A Community Conference
  Friday, March 11, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 18, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 25, 2016 - 12:00
• Fighting Hunger with Eastern Illinois Foodbank, plus: a meal tasting!
  Friday, April 1, 2016 - 12:00
• Solar Urbana-Champaign: Solar Power Hour
  Friday, April 8, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, April 15, 2016 - 12:00
• Albert Michelson's Harmonic Analyzer: A Visual Tour of a Nineteenth Century Machine
  Friday, April 22, 2016 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, April 29, 2016 - 12:00

Fall 2015

• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, September 11, 2015 - 12:00
• Ed-TPA 101
  Friday, September 18, 2015 - 12:00
• 4-H Youth Development in Champaign County and STEM Education for Illinois Youth
  Friday, September 25, 2015 - 12:00
• Pollinator A-Bee-Cs
  Friday, October 2, 2015 - 12:00
• The Common Core and the Grand Canyon
  Friday, October 9, 2015 - 12:00
• Multi-Modalities in STEM Teaching & Learning and the Affordances of New Technologies
  Friday, October 16, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, October 23, 2015 - 12:00
• Engaging Academically Diverse K-12 Learners in Computer Programming and Computational Thinking Instruction
  Friday, October 30, 2015 - 12:00
• Teaching Science in the Garden with Young Learners
  Friday, November 6, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 13, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 20, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 27, 2015 - 12:00
• Gamify to Unify
  Friday, December 4, 2015 - 12:00
• STEM Outreach with Computational Thinking & MatheMagic
  Friday, December 11, 2015 - 12:00

Spring 2015

• Phase 1: Get a Raspberry Pi, Phase 2: ?, Phase 3: Rule the World
  Friday, January 30, 2015 - 12:00
• A Curmudgeon Reflects on 50 Years of Math Education
  Friday, February 6, 2015 - 12:00
• 3D Printing in Your Classroom
  Friday, February 13, 2015 - 12:00
• Where Should We Park the PARCC?
  Friday, February 20, 2015 - 12:00
• Renewable Energy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Friday, February 27, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 6, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 13, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 20, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, March 27, 2015 - 12:00
• Engaging the Public to Benefit the Community
  Friday, April 3, 2015 - 12:00
• Taking High School Level Math in College: Issues, Trends, and Novel Approaches
  Friday, April 10, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, April 17, 2015 - 12:00
• A Whirlwind Journey from Classroom AP Statistics to Corporate Data Scientist via Coursera
  Friday, April 24, 2015 - 12:00
• Project Lead The Way in Illinois - Reflections and Updates on a Decade of PLTW K-12 STEM across Illinois
  Friday, May 1, 2015 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, May 8, 2015 - 12:00

Fall 2014

• Minecraft 3D Printing
  Friday, September 19, 2014 - 12:00
• Smart Grid Education: Power & Energy Curriculum
  Friday, September 26, 2014 - 12:00
• Celebrating High School Innovators
  Friday, October 3, 2014 - 12:00
• Kenwood Kennovation: An elementary school community promoting collaboration, creativity, computational thinking, and computer science
  Friday, October 10, 2014 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch This Week
  Friday, October 17, 2014 - 12:00
• What It's Really Like on the Champaign Unit 4 School Board
  Friday, October 24, 2014 - 12:00
• Georg Cantor and the Idea of Infinity
  Friday, October 31, 2014 - 12:00
• NetMath's Partner High School Programs
  Friday, November 7, 2014 - 12:00
• 2015 Illinois Climate Action Plan (2015 iCAP) draft
  Friday, November 14, 2014 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 21, 2014 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, November 28, 2014 - 12:00
• Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab Outreach Projects
  Friday, December 5, 2014 - 12:00
• No Friday Lunch this Week
  Friday, December 12, 2014 - 12:00

Spring 2014

• Changing Strategy in Developmental Math
  Friday, January 31, 2014 - 12:00
• How People with Disabilities Access the Web
  Friday, February 7, 2014 - 12:00
• Collaborations with the Center for Education in Small Urban Communities
  Friday, February 14, 2014 - 12:00
• De-Mystifying Technology and Other Projects from GSLIS' Center for Digital Inclusion
  Friday, February 21, 2014 - 12:00
• iSEE a Sustainable Campus
  Friday, February 28, 2014 - 12:00
• Creative thinking + Computational thinking = Aspirational thinking
  Friday, March 7, 2014 - 12:00
• Creating Connections Between Volunteers and the Community
  Friday, March 14, 2014 - 12:00
• Cognitive research in STEM: What it tells us about student perception and performance, and how it can inform teaching
  Friday, April 11, 2014 - 12:00
• Digital Environments for Learning, Teaching, and Agency (DELTA) in the College of Education
  Friday, April 18, 2014 - 12:00
• Interactive Online Laboratories
  Friday, April 25, 2014 - 12:00
• Teacher Stress: The Key to Happy Classrooms and Careers
  Friday, May 2, 2014 - 12:00

Fall 2013

• Math Classroom Observations: A New Tool and a Search for New Perspectives
  Friday, September 13, 2013 - 12:00
• Development of an Outreach Program for Private Well Owners
  Friday, September 20, 2013 - 12:00
• A classroom activity for teaching about the dynamic nature of science
  Friday, September 27, 2013 - 12:00
• A Pizza Lunch with Galileo OR How a Genius Does Mathematical Modeling
  Friday, October 4, 2013 - 12:00
• What I Learned From Art About Teaching Math
  Friday, October 11, 2013 - 12:00
• Open Discussion
  Friday, November 1, 2013 - 12:00
• Field Trip to the Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab
  Friday, November 8, 2013 - 12:00
• Engaging struggling learners and students with disabilities in STEM learning
  Friday, November 15, 2013 - 12:00
• The Virtues of Integrated Secondary Science
  Friday, December 6, 2013 - 12:00

Spring 2013

• Exploring the Next Generation Science Standards: implications for Teaching
  Friday, February 1, 2013 - 12:00
• Naturally Illinois Expo: Prairie Research Institute Reaches out to our Communities
  Friday, February 8, 2013 - 12:00
• The Illinois Geometry Lab
  Friday, February 15, 2013 - 12:00
• CUScholars: Preparing our students for more choices
  Friday, February 22, 2013 - 12:00
• Working with Math Teachers in Haiti
  Friday, March 29, 2013 - 12:00
• Supercomputers: What are they and why we need them
  Friday, April 5, 2013 - 12:00
• VMD, a molecular visualization tool created by Physics and Beckman
  Friday, April 12, 2013 - 12:00
• How students in statistics classes process mathematics.
  Friday, April 19, 2013 - 12:00

Fall 2012

• iFoundry Update
  Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:00
• Studying Student Misconceptions in Basic Mathematics Through Analysis of Solution Strategies using ILogistic Modeling.
  Friday, September 21, 2012 - 12:00
• Making A Difference, One Student at a Time
  Friday, September 28, 2012 - 12:00
• Time vs. Difficulty: A graphic display of programming problems for young children
  Friday, October 5, 2012 - 12:00
• Is Algebra Necessary?
  Friday, October 12, 2012 - 12:00
• The iPad's Role in Meaningful Education Improvement
  Friday, October 26, 2012 - 12:00
• Cosmology Research at UIUC
  Friday, November 2, 2012 - 12:00
• Cinematic Treatments of Scientific Data for Public Outreach
  Friday, November 9, 2012 - 12:00
• Ecosystem Engineering: A New Class of Optimization Problem
  Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:00

Spring 2012

• New Zealand Delta Conference
  Friday, January 27, 2012 - 12:00
• KAM WAM (Krannert Art Museum-Week at the Museum)
  Friday, February 3, 2012 - 12:00
• Calculus Class Activity Grab Bag
  Friday, February 10, 2012 - 12:00
• BeeSpotter/The Insect Fear Film Festival
  Friday, February 17, 2012 - 12:00
• Sustainability
  Friday, March 9, 2012 - 12:00
• The BioGraph project using StarLogo TNG
  Friday, March 16, 2012 - 12:00
• Novel Education for Understanding Research on Neuroscience
  Friday, April 13, 2012 - 12:00
• Etoys as modeling tool in a science methods class
  Friday, April 20, 2012 - 12:00
• Formative Assessment and Mathematics Teaching and Learning
  Friday, April 27, 2012 - 12:00

Fall 2011

• Field Trip to Champaign Central High
  Friday, September 9, 2011 - 11:45
• Open Discussion
  Friday, September 16, 2011 - 12:00
• Ways To Use Multimedia in Education
  Friday, September 23, 2011 - 12:00
• Talking about rates of change: Gaining insights from Algebra students' conversations.
  Friday, September 30, 2011 - 12:00
• iFoundry and iEFX
  Friday, October 7, 2011 - 12:00
• TAP In Leadership Academy
  Friday, October 14, 2011 - 12:00
• CUVolunteer
  Friday, October 28, 2011 - 12:00
• Math Puzzles with Pete
  Friday, November 11, 2011 - 12:00
• Open Discussion and Math Puzzles!
  Friday, December 2, 2011 - 12:00

Spring 2011

• Accessible Math and Graphics
  Friday, January 28, 2011 - 12:00
• The psycho-pedagogical bases of electronic textbook development
  Friday, February 4, 2011 - 12:00
• Enhancing Creativity: Assisting students whether you have 15 minutes or 15 weeks
  Friday, February 11, 2011 - 12:00
• Teaching Mechanics with a Cheap Stroboscope
  Friday, February 18, 2011 - 12:00
• Field Trip to Staerkel Planetarium
  Friday, February 25, 2011 - 11:30
• Assessing Science by Assessing Writing: A Report on the Assess-As-You-Go Writing Assistant Project
  Friday, March 11, 2011 - 12:00
• Open Discussion
  Friday, March 18, 2011 - 12:00
• Engineer Guy Videos
  Friday, April 1, 2011 - 12:00
• Numerals
  Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:00
• Presentation by Quinn Baetz
  Friday, April 15, 2011 - 12:00
• An informal discussion on preparation for college mathematics
  Friday, April 22, 2011 - 12:00
• Illinois Project Lead The Way STEM Update
  Friday, April 29, 2011 - 12:00
• Field Trip to the Hydrosystems Lab
  Friday, May 6, 2011 - 12:00

Fall 2010

• Calculus with and without Mathematica: Some questions about student thinking
  Friday, September 10, 2010 - 12:00
• Increasing Algebra I Proficiency Scores
  Friday, September 24, 2010 - 12:00
• Visit to the Pollinatarium
  Friday, October 1, 2010 - 12:00
• An overview of Project NEURON
  Friday, October 22, 2010 - 12:00
• Learn Math by Making Math: an Overview of the Make Mathematics Platform
  Friday, October 29, 2010 - 12:00
• Illinois Bridge to China: An International Outreach Initiative
  Friday, November 5, 2010 - 12:00
• Presentation by Anita Martin
  Friday, November 12, 2010 - 12:00
• Open Discussion & Math Problems
  Friday, December 3, 2010 - 12:00

Spring 2010

• What Etoys Could Bring to STEM Education
  Friday, February 5, 2010 - 12:00
• A Teacher's Experience at the Emergent Life Institute
  Friday, February 12, 2010 - 12:00
• Teaching with Dynamic Geometry: Is There Something New for Students to Learn?
  Friday, February 19, 2010 - 12:00
• Discussion on Math Workshops for Teachers
  Friday, February 26, 2010 - 12:00
• Thinking and Creativity in Learning Mathematics Teaching
  Friday, March 5, 2010 - 12:00
• The FABLab in Champaign-Urbana and the DigiFab Proposal
  Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:00
• iFoundry
  Friday, April 2, 2010 - 12:00
• TI-Robots in the Classroom
  Friday, April 9, 2010 - 12:00
• The First Calculus Text: 1609
  Friday, April 16, 2010 - 12:00
• Merit Program and the MIST Project
  Friday, April 23, 2010 - 12:00

Fall 2009

• Exoplanets Activity
  Friday, September 18, 2009 - 12:00
• Etoys Presentation
  Friday, September 25, 2009 - 12:00
• Merit Program Presentation
  Friday, October 2, 2009 - 12:00
• New Math
  Friday, October 23, 2009 - 12:00
• Creativity
  Friday, November 6, 2009 - 12:00
• The Math You Need and The Math You Want
  Friday, November 13, 2009 - 12:00
• Distributed Wall Socket Metering
  Friday, November 20, 2009 - 12:00
• Robotics at Uni Summer Camp
  Friday, December 4, 2009 - 12:00