AI for STEM Education – Science Friday

interactive game design

It combines visual programming languages, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to create interactive games and teaches how to program and code. Use hand gestures to interact with your computerThis project uses a pre-trained machine learning model to recognize a player’s hands and allow you to code an interactive game that allows you to manipulate various objects on the screen. Learn all the steps necessary to create and play a game using a visual programming language while gaining a deeper understanding of AI and how it works. Then you can unleash your creativity and create your own games. Offered in English and Spanish!

interactive game design

How AI chatbots got smarter

With a seemingly endless selection of streaming services, how can personal preferences be tailored? The concepts of machine conversations and chatbots have been tried for years, dating back to the 1950s. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms recommend what to watch, read, and listen to. In this activity, learners open the AI’s black box and peek inside to see how it works. using An online tool to build your own video recommendation AI, add nodes to the neural network and connect them according to your personal preferences.

How AI chatbots got smarter

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AI dream team

Andy Forrest – Steamlabs

Andy is a tech entrepreneur and educator. As an educator, he led his steamlabs.ca and has built his AI teaching experience for Canada Learning Code, Amazon, Ontario Science Centre, Oslo Teknisk Museum, and many other organizations around the world. rice field. He has given talks and keynotes on the future of technology and education to Mozilla, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, UNESCO, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the Ontario Department of Education, and more. As a technology entrepreneur, he leads the team that develops his AI machine learning projects at scale. For example, in 15 years he has delivered his lessons live to over 2.5 million students, including Berlitz’s Global Online Virtual Classroom.

Anthony St. Jean – Newark Public Schools

Anthony is an educator and founder of EdTech, LLC and the non-profit Student Success Foundation. He has worked as a biology teacher at the Chad Academy of Sciences in Newark, New Jersey, and received a master’s degree in instructional design and technology from Seton Hall University in 2004. Anthony then contributed his knowledge and experience as Orange Public’s Educational Technology Coordinator. school. He is committed to integrating technology into the classroom environment and serves Newark Public Schools as well. His work was recently featured in Good Morning His America. In addition to continuing his own professional development, he continues to guide and support educators who use technology to advance student learning.

Brenda Sivanandan – Steamlabs

Brenda (She/She) is a visual designer, illustrator and maker. Her work, which launched her career as an architect, has been published in her journal of Australian design, her IDEA (Interior Her Design + Interior Architecture Educators Association), and has been published by ArchDaily and the Canadian Arts Council. We collaborate on featured projects. With a focus on exhibit design and her AI education, she has developed her AI exhibits and workshops for Amazon Future Engineer, Pacific Museum of Earth, and Teknisk Museum. She has given her AI her workshops at conferences such as Mozilla Mozfest, the European Network of German Science Centers and Museums, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, and the micro:bit Conference. She has created illustrations and graphics for the Ontario Science Center, the Canadian Association of Science Centers, OCAD University, and her Metropolitan University of Toronto. She resides in Treaty 13 (Toronto Purchase) territories Mississauga, Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe (ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᒃ), and Huron in Wendat.

Camila and Diego Luna – MoonMakers

Camila and Diego are founding members of MoonMakers, a community of creators passionate about knowledge. They host Makerspace, an open space with a variety of digital manufacturing machinery, and a YouTube channel that promotes the science, technology, and maker movement. They work with companies such as Sesame Stree and Make: Community in the US and Educational Television and Fundación Televisa in Mexico to create educational content. Camila also teaches workshops throughout the Mexican Republic at Talent Land, the State Secretary of Education in Jalisco, Conassit and Centro Cultural España.

Reed Richard – Steamlabs

Reade is a Maker educator, author, and curriculum developer from Toronto, Ontario, creating a variety of micro:bit and AI-focused activities in classrooms across Canada. He has worked with Steamlab for over seven years, educating both children and adults. About digital fabrication and the wonders of his DIY projects. Previously, the Ontario Science Center, ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers), Western University and other makers of organizations such as He has helped develop spaces and activities. In his spare time, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Resource Based Economy and an offshoot non-profit organization, he supports The Toronto Tool Library. He also enjoys traveling and has presented at conferences and science centers around the world, including Beijing, China and Oslo, Norway. His latest book, Make: AI Robots, will be published in his summer of 2023 through Make Community.