STEM
STEM at CSD
CSD Students Visit Google
ASL Clear (Innovating STEM Education in ASL)
YouTube Channel
Click here to see some science signs!
Atomic Hands
Why is the sky blue and the sunsets red?
Flesh Eating Bacteria
#STEMsigns
*Signs shown on #STEMsigns are seen and used by the community and are not created by Atomic Hands. We encourage you to evaluate the sign and adopt or discard it; or develop a new sign!
STEM!
Watch to learn the sign and the history behind it!
Electron, valence shell, ionic bond, & covalent bond
This one is chemistry related! Learn the sign for electron, valence shell, ionic bond, and covalent bond.
Energy, potential energy, and kinetic energy!
Watch until the end to learn the status quo of the sign, “energy” in our community and whether the sign should be used differently in varying contexts such as biology and physics!!
Proteins & Enzymes
You may be able to catch a few bonus words like cell, DNA, transcription, and mitochondria.
Virus & Bacteria
Ecosystem
Food chain/Food web-related signs!
Fraction-related signs!
Angles
#STEMvee
Human tears are unique like snowflakes!
ACHOO! Seasonal allergies are the worst!
Why do we call computer errors “bugs”?
Asparagus smells like....
Northern/Southern Lights
Spiders are one of nature’s most magnificent engineers!
How do bees make honeycombs?
How do bees make our favorite golden syrup, honey?!
#deafSTEMchronicle
Thomas Edison
Annie Jump Cannon
Robert Weitbrecht
8585 News at CSD
Rubiks Cube World Record
8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Candyland
8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Toilet Paper Roll
8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Card Stacker 8585 News with kelly Krzyska
Pokemon Go
8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Food Art 8585 News
with Kelly Krzyska
Robotic Clothes Folding
8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Jenga Master 8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Legos
New Bus Design in China
Prime Air (Amazon)
Google Doodle
Stop Plastics with Ooho Water Capsules
Plastic & Edible Utensils
8585 News with Kelly Krzyska
Corn Mazes
Ice Hotel
Surfing Waterpark
Pumpkin Carving Art
Magic & Illusions
Domino Effect
Robot Station at CSD
DeafTec
ASL CORE
Coding
Code & Coding
#STEMsigns
Cork the Volcano- Coding
Fanwood (New York)
Hour of Code
Fanwood (New York)
Inventors
Deaf People in Tech (past & present)
Melissa Malzkuhn
Washington D.C Metro Area
Storyteller, digital strategist, creative director
Founder of Salt & Ink, a creative productions company, and one of the producers of The ASL App: an app that teaches conversational ASL.
Matt Malzkuhn
Washington D.C Metro Area
Co-Founder and Producer at Ink & Salt
Works in the creative development and publishing industry developing apps and resources.
Tim Kettering
San Francisco, California
Software Engineer & Photographer
Software developer with over ten years of Java back-end and front-end web application development experience. Five years of development experience with the iOS ecosystem with multiple apps released in the App Store. Working experience with Android with an app released in Google Play.
Mike Burns
Mountain View, California
Hardware Test Engineering (Reliability)
Currently a Manager at Google with engineers and technicians responsible for Mechanical, Environmental and CMF tests of Google consumer hardware products.
Previously worked at Apple in the same field testing their hardware and Iphones.
Sam Sepah
Mountain View, California
Global Human Resources Manager, Corporate Recruiter & Human Capital Management Guru at Google
An expert on advocating employment rights for the underrepresented workers, especially for the deaf and hard of hearing population.
William Albright
San Francisco, California
App developer & Web Engineer at Linguabee
Will Johansson
Bay Area, California
Software Engineer at Lyft
A Coder who makes apps. He designed an app with ASL videos for Lyft customers to learn ASL and communicate with Deaf Lyft drivers.
Coding Concepts in American Sign Language
At Apple, we believe technology should be accessible to everyone, and all students deserve an opportunity to learn how to code. Will and Tim, software engineers at Lyft, explain coding concepts in American Sign Language and give advice on app development from a Deaf perspective.
Arthur Yankilevich
Perris, California
Welder for SpaceX
Weld Nickel 625/ 718, Stainless steel and Hast W &
build rocket parts.
David Smario
Bay Area, California
Software Developer
Owner of SmarioSoft Solutions. Senior Developer for Hero Digital. Previously with Rauxa, Thought Matrix & HOVRS (Purple).
Ben Mock
San Francisco, CA
Designer at LAM Research
Ken Bolingbroke
Bay Area
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Currently Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Verizon Media (formerly known as Yahoo), responsible for critical systems infrastructure in every company data center, colo and offices around the world.
Amelia Bernstein
Hollywood, California
Animation
A graduate of Chapman University's School of Animation, and studied under animators from Disney and Pixar. She has illustrated a book, “The Sled.” She is hard at work on an animation movie.
Gary Behm
Rochester, New York
STEM program at RIT
Director of RIT/NTID’s Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory, and as an engineering lead for the faculty, researchers and students in the conceptualization, design, development, building and testing of engineering solutions that address the need of accessibility of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals primarily in the postsecondary educational environment.
Michael Kaufer
Manhattan, New York
Employee at Apple Store
Troubleshooting & fixing MAC products including iPads, iPhones and MacBooks.
Michael Kaufer introduces coding to students at CSD
Maureen "Moe" Klusza
Fremont, California
Illustrator & Digital Media Teacher at CSD
STEAM Resources & Activities
Social Justice in STEM- http://stemteachingtools.org/brief/67 Focusing Science and Engineering Learning on Justice-Centered Phenomena across PK-12
Science Fair Central - https://www.sciencefaircentral.com/parents excellent non-overwhelming DOABLE hands-on projects for families for the youngest through high school:
Girls and STEM -https://girlsleadstem.com/educator-resources/ (Grades 2-5). Excellent videos for all genders. Click on the family activities to the right of the captioned videos.
DeafPlanet.com
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Technology
Leah Katz-Hernandez-Watch her explain why technology and accessibility is so important for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Melissa Malzkuhn-develops literacy apps so that deaf children can enjoy literature and immerse themselves in language at an early age.
ML2 Training: Crash course with the Bison Brainiacs
My Three Animals (Animation)