KidsTech Fall 2025

About and Welcome

Welcome to the Fall 2025 Semester classroom site for participants in Oswego KidsTech.
- - STEM 4 Kids (S4K), grades K-3
  - Young Inventors (YI), grades 4-6
This classroom site is for campus participants.
- - Remote participants will need to access their classroom to print the weekly learning booklets as they are posted.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any needs or requests (see below).
If this is your first time visiting this site, please start with the info page to learn how to access items.
If you are visiting to obtain information on our programs offered each semester visit us at our website or on Facebook:
- - - http://oswegokidstech.org/
    - https://www.facebook.com/oswegokidstech/

Oswego KidsTech Receives Funding from National Grid

This is our fifth year receiving funding from National Grid (2025-26 Academic Year). Read more on Oswego KidsTech receiving the National Grid funding and how this is enhancing our programs.

Front row: Karin Dykeman, Asst. Prof. and KidsTech co-facilitator; Gwendolyn Sanders, Central NY Community Relations Coordinator, National Grid; Walter Dengos, Jurisdictional Community & Account Manager, National Grid; Mark Springston, Assoc. Prof. and KidsTech co-facilitator; Richard Bush, Assoc. Prof., Department of Technology Chair

Second Row: Laura Spenceley, Ph.D., Interim Dean, School of Education; Methods students: Ashlyn Schuster, Shafia Ibrahim, Emily Blake, Hailey Hatfield, Alyse Porsella.

Third Row: Methods students: Akil Atiba, Coulter Wiley, Alec MacDonald, Matt Ditzel, Brandon DiBattisto, Chris Schmits

Fourth Row: Methods students: Brendan Beutel, Shane Olenick, Patrick Miskell, Jack Shortell, Marc Gagliardi, Ryan Parrish

Back Row: Methods students: Dan Dorney, Erik Bubb, Matt Collins, Hunter Sabella, Ed Catapano, Kevin Zawacki

Link to News Release

Info Page for Participants

Facilitators and Contacts

Facilitators
- - Please contact us via email with any needs you may have. You can email us directly at the below emails, or can always email kidstech@oswego.edu.

Professor Springston
SUNY Oswego

(Campus Program Organizer)

Cell Phone: 315-236-1250

Email: mark.springston@oswego.edu

About

Professor Mark Springston has been at SUNY Oswego since 2006. He has been working with KidsTech since the beginning in 2012.

His interests and hobbies are photography, website work, programming, woodworking, electrical wiring, working out, and playing basketball.

Learn More About Professor Springston

Professor Dykeman
SUNY Oswego

(Remote Program Organizer)

Cell Phone: 315-559-0189

Email: karin.dykeman@oswego.edu

About

Professor Dykeman recently joined the SUNY Oswego Technology Department after more than twenty years teaching technology in public schools. She loves bringing STEM activities to children in after-school and community programs, so she's thrilled to be a part of KidsTech this year.

In her spare time she likes to hike, play with her pets, cook for friends and family, and travel to museums and new places.