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Twirl’s Light Play in collaboration with TISA’s new STEAM Lab
We launched the new STEAM Lab at the Taos School of Integrated Arts with a series of Twirl workshops. Students from grades K-5 participated in Light Play, which allows them to play, explore and make discoveries with light. They learn how it bends, bounces and blends with the help of lenses and mirrors; along…
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Serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA
MAY 2016 I am in my second year serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA, whose mission is to bring individuals and communities out of poverty. We make a year-long, full-time commitment to serve on a specific project at a nonprofit organization or public agency. I am also part of a growing demographic of ‘older adults’ serving…
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Agnes Chavez shares 2015 Projecting Particles outcomes at return visit to ATLAS@CERN
MAY 2016 CERN. Geneva, Switzerland A year after her 2015 two-week research stay through ATLAS Experiment at CERN, Chavez returns to share end of year video documentation from the Projecting Particles projects. The gatherings took place at the CERN library and Ideasquare, a dedicated test facility at CERN that hosts detector R&D projects, facilitates MSc student programs…
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ATLAS at CERN + The Harwood Museum expand Physics and Art at Taos High School
ATLAS at CERN partners with Agnes Chavez, Quarknet and The Harwood Museum to bring a unique physics + art opportunity to Taos High School students. This event is sponsored by ATLAS Experiment, The Harwood Museum and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Special thanks to Carla Chavez, Biology teacher at Taos High School and Megan Avina Bowers,…
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Explora ABQ: Projecting Climate Change Workshop
As pat of my Americorps VISTA service and partnership with Explora and 516 ARTS,event: Habitat, Exploring Climate Change through the Arts, I will present a hands-on workshop offering students the opportunity to use projection art and their imaginations to explore climate impacts on diverse ecosystems and allow that to inspire and inform their ideas. Using…
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‘Hour of Code’ at Taos Middle School a Huge Success
Taos Middle School was one of 166,726,959 schools around the world that participated in the national week-long Hour of Code event, designed to get the whole world dedicating one hour to learning code using their fun and easy tutorials. Launched in 2013, Code.org® is a non-profit dedicated to expanding access to computer science, and increasing…
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Taos High and Taos Academy Join to Project Particles at The Harwood Museum of Art
Congratulations to all the students that participated in the Projecting Particles STEMarts LAB sponsored by The Harwood Museum of Art Teen Engagement Program, Los Alamos National Laboratory and ATLAS at CERN. The workshop kicked off with a live virtual tour of the ATLAS control room at CERN led by physicist, Dr. Steven Goldfarb, courtesy of…
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CERN Virtual Tour at Taos High School
This morning at 7am students from Taos High School led by biology teacher Carla Chavez, and four teen-leads from Taos Academy participated in a live virtual tour of CERN in Geneva Switzerland. CERN is the home of the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator. This was the kick-off for the Projecting Particles…
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Breaking News for STEAM and Arts Education
BREAKING NEWS: “In the midst of the biggest shakeup of federal education law in over a decade, Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) successfully added an amendment today to the rewrite of the nation’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) legislation that will integrate the arts into STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math)…Read more This is…
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Art Meets Science at Cafe Scientifique
Art Meets Science at Cafe Scientifique Agnes Chavez is an artist, educator and Co-Director of The PASEO. She is also an Americorp VISTA, whose mission is to ‘Help Build Capacity for STEAM Education in New Mexico. Agnes is out spreading the word about the power of art and science for social change. Her interactive presentation takes…
