A class built around a robot dog?
Sure enough, Hamzah Shanbari, Haskell’s Director of Innovation, and Bolt, the robot dog, recently joined Jeremy Nix, an educator, composer and chemist, on WJCT Public Media’s First Coast Connect with Anne Schindler to discuss Nix’s pioneering STEAM program The Celestial Kingdoms of Sound.
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics, and the program, which is offered as in-school and after-school enrichment programs in partnership with Montessori Tides School. It teaches students the wonders of sound and music in the natural world through a science-and-technology-integrated music curriculum.
“We want to expose them to as many technologies and as many creative modalities as possible,” Nix told the WJCT audience. “The dog itself is utilizing laser technology; laser is a form of electromagnetic radiation. It’s a wave, a vibration. We can also listen to that as a sound, so we draw inspiration from the technical, from the world and also from our inner realities.”
“And it’s fun,” Shanbari added.
Listen to the segment: https://lnkd.in/e_NupNg8
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