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Discover how esports can engage students in STEAM learning and prepare them for future-ready careers. This session explores how K-12 educators can use gaming to teach key STEAM skills, from AI to coding, all while building college and career readiness. Explore a variety of esports careers in STEAM and discover ways to connect your students' passion for gaming with diverse and exciting careers on the cutting-edge of technology. You'll leave with resources and strategies for adding career exploration materials to your esports programs that boost engagement and build college and career pathways.
Academic esports provides a unique platform that can be harnessed to foster equitable, inclusive computer science education. Through real-world case studies and research-based best practices, discover how esports can spark students' passion for learning, ignite their curiosity about technology education, and empower underrepresented groups to pursue STEAM careers.
We're thrilled to attend the 12th annual CA STEAM Symposium and connect with California educators and administrators like you!
The Symposium is the largest convening of STEAM educators and stakeholders in California, with additional representation from 20+ American states and Canadian provinces. One key offering is the peer-led breakout sessions, where educators share their learnings and best practices with attendees.
The California Department of Education (CDE) believe in the power of active, joyful, and engaging exploration and learning for all California students, especially those in traditionally marginalized communities. Rarely do we teach just one portion of the STEAM acronym. Connecting to the real world requires cross-content work with the goal of helping students feel safe, known, supported, and fully engaged in learning. Each year, the California STEAM Symposium provides the opportunity to learn how to readily integrate STEAM practices into your learning environment, along with strategies and resources to address students’ and educators’ social & emotional well-being to support academic progress.
All participants at the 2025 California STEAM Symposium will have full access to over 100+ breakout sessions in addition to dozens of Winter of CS computer science-related workshops focused on trends and equitable CS pedagogical strategies for K-12 students.
CDE's STEAM Symposium partners include companies such as Google.org, The Human Energy Company, LEGO Education, Impossible Science, Seasons of CS, and Heising-Simons Foundation.
Exhibitor Hall & Makerspace Open
7:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
General Session:
Keynote: Maynard Okereke AKA Hip Hop M.D
Award-winning Science Communicator, NSBE’s Entrepreneur of the Year, and creator of Hip Hop Science
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
1:45 PM - 5:30 PM
Social Hour Reception
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Exhibitor Hall & Makerspace Open
7:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
General Session:
Keynote: Curtis Carmichael
STEAM teacher, author of the 'World’s First Augmented Reality Memoir Butterflies in the Trenches', and Forbes Top 30 Under 30 recipient
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions
1:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Start:
Friday, February 7, 2025
End:
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Town & Country Resort Convention Center | 500 Hotel Cir N, San Diego, CA 92108
Booth:
Alan Sitomer
CEO and Founder of Mastery Coding
Peter Polygalov
Director of Marketing
