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In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris and Marcus Schappi talk with Mark Roper.

Mark is a strategic thinker, entrepreneur, and lecturer who enjoys working at the leading edge, envisioning solutions to real-world problems and taking action to make these solutions a reality.

Mark is a co-founder of Royalti Blockchain Group Pty Ltd, an Australian-based blockchain training and consulting company. In that capacity, we invited Mark to have a discussion with us, in which we explore the Blockchain and the ways by which it promises to change the world.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0053-mark-roper/

In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris talks with Dr. Jillian Kenny.

A creator at heart, Dr. Jillian Kenny is constantly on the lookout for opportunities to challenge traditional ways of thinking. As a result of her work she was named one of the first Superstars of STEM by Science and Technology Australia in 2017 and as one of Australia’s Top 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review and Westpac in 2014.

As a Founding Director of Machinam, Jillian has led the company to develop innovative digital high school mathematics resources that are engaging and relevant to real life, answering that age-old question, “Why do I have to learn this?”

In 2012, she co-founded the non-profit organization Power of Engineering, which runs nationwide events for female and regional Year 9 and 10 students to inspire them about the engineering profession; showcasing its diversity, creativity, and most importantly that it is an avenue to making a real difference in the world.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0052-dr-jillian-kenny/

In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris talks with Christie Evans.

Christie has a deep interest in STEM initiated by a science degree at Flinders University, then further developed by a strong classroom practice from her first days of teaching.

Within the classroom, Christie engages students through problem-based learning with real-world applications using a cross-curricular inquiry model.

Christie’s enthusiasm for both the Sciences and Technologies has enabled her to have a significant impact not only at her site but across several schools. Teachers recognize, and are enlightened by, her progressive pedagogies and connection to authentic context and are thereby motivated to adopt this way of teaching.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0051-christie-evans/

In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris and Marcus Schappi talk with Nurit Bar-Shai.

Nurit is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of art, science, and technology.

She is the co-founder of Genspace NYC, a community biotech lab in Brooklyn, NY, ranked by Fast Company among the top 10 most innovative education companies.

As an activist and educator working with biological systems, she conducts experiments through creative, collaborative inquiries and addresses the ethics and the emerging practices of Do-It-Yourself Biology and citizen-science.

As the Arts and Culture Program Director at Genspace, she developed content for educational, cultural and outreach programs creating solutions to bridge the Arts and Biological Science.

Her research and artistic practice look into microbial social networks and communication systems, collective collaboration, emergence, Soft-Genetic Modification, and BioMaterial fabrications.

Nurit developed collaborative STEAM projects including the NYC Biome Map.

She is a co-curator of the BioArt exhibition Cut/Paste/Grow, curator of the Genspace Pop-up Lab at Biofabricate, and has partnered with The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) for their Agar Art competition and the co-organizer of Nodes & Networks NYC.

Nurit is a contributor to the Leonardo ebook: Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts.

Her work is featured in the book BioDesign: Nature, Science, Creativity published by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Her artwork was commissioned by Turbulence.org, won a Prix Ars Electronica and included in the collection of the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art at Cornell University.

Nurit held residencies at Tel Aviv University, Microbiology lab of Professor Eshel Ben Jacob, who studied the social life of bacteria and at Epibone, a bioengineering NYC startup that grows bone tissue for skeletal reconstruction.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0050-nurit-bar-shai/

In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris talks with Andra Kaye.

Andra is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, an industry group supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies.

Andra is also

• founder of Robot Launch, a global robotics startup competition,

• co-founder of Robot Garden hackerspace,

• mentor at hardware accelerators,

• and a startup advisor and investor, with a strong interest in commercializing socially positive robotics and artificial intelligence.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0049-andra-keay/

In this episode, Peter and Marcus talk with Kurt Yang.

Kurt is the product manager of an Australian EduTech start-up company, Actura. Actura provides leading STEAM learning solutions spanning from in-class to out-of-class environments.

Kurt grew up in China and settled down in Sydney after completing his Commerce degree at Macquarie University. He then commenced his banking career in CBA shortly after graduation while completing his Master of Applied Finance at Macquarie University.

During the 8.5 years Kurt worked in CBA, he gradually developed an enormous passion for technology innovation and product management. That led him to join Cuscal and help implement Android Pay and Apple Pay digital wallet solutions for 30-40 domestic banks and credit unions across Australia.

After the successful launch of these two products, Kurt moved onto an exciting new challenge, which is the development of Actura’s FlipRobot. Kurt is determined to make a difference in the STEAM education industry by creating accessible and affordable educational robotic learning solutions with a solid curriculum and teaching implementation support.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0048-kurt-yang/

In this episode, Dr. Peter Dalmaris talks with Dr. Linda McIver.

Dr. Linda McIver started out as an Academic with a Ph.D. in Computer Science Education. When it became apparent that High School teaching was a lot more fun, Linda began a highly successful career at John Monash Science School, where she built innovative courses in Computational and Data Science for year 10 and year 11 students.

Nominated one of the inaugural Superstars of STEM in 2017, Linda is passionate about creating authentic project experiences to motivate all students to become technologically and data literate.

While Linda loves the classroom, it was rapidly becoming clear that teachers in the Australian School system were keen to embrace Data Science, but that there was a serious lack of resources to support that. That’s why Linda created ADSEI – to support Data Science in education.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0047-dr-linda-mciver/

In this episode, Peter and Marcus talk with Jesse King.

Jesse is a Waanyi descendant who has a passion for education and the opportunities it provides for everyone involved.

He has close ties to the Mt Isa and Central Queensland regions through his father and mother’s family. Jesse attended school in Townsville and completed his teacher training at Charles Darwin University.

He is keenly interested in the opportunities 21st-century pedagogy offers for learners of all abilities and backgrounds.

Jesse has experience in classroom teaching, school leadership, learning management system implementation (School and Sector), school strategic planning and has successfully gained funding and delivered a variety of programs at the school level.

The show notes to this episode can be found here: https://techexplorations.com/podcast/stemiverse-0046-jesse-king/