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Full STEAM Ahead

I represented the creative or the “A” in STEAM at the APGA 2013 Conference: Garden Evolution held in Phoenix. With my education colleagues from the Desert Botanical Garden. APGA is the American Public Garden Association. We presented to a packed house on how to use STEM in a garden education program and more specifically how to add the Arts right in the middle to create a more well rounded offing to students during tours. We avoid the typical power point and instead I created ‘slides’ to serve as a set design for us to speak in front. This allowed the focus to be on our words and the images from nature and industrial, recycled bits and pieces as inspiration only; not more words of information on the screen. The talk was very successful with a lot of interest nationally. Here are the slide images with the full power point downloadable at the bottom.

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Click here for the PowerPoint: Full STEAM Ahead You are welcome to use it I only ask that you credit Laboratory5 Inc.

 

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Thrifty Find

I have been on a terrarium making kick for some time as exhibited HERE. So I can not express how thrilled I was to discover this little gem at a thrift store this weekend and with my teacher discount I scored it for only $4.25!! I could not wait to hit the plant store for some supplies so I  headed out first thing this morning and scored some half dead plants at Lowe’s for only ¢.25 each. I am confident that I can totally bring them back to life. Those plants combined with a bunch of free spider plants that my friend Tom gave me and I have an awesome display and spent under $6 (note: I had the soil, terrarium supplies and root grow on hand already.) Thrilled beyond!

BEFORE – Thrift Store Find

 

AFTER – Planted

Close Up of Plants

 

 

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