I have chosen Theatre + STEM: a STEAM integrated approach as I have always had an interest in STEAM. In my undergrad, I had the opportunity to do a brief talk on STEAM education and its benefits. One program that I looked at briefly was a theatre program in Texas that looked at the applications of STEM in theatre. It was largely technical based on light and computer programming for lights and music and engineering a set design. I would love to revisit this program but also I would like to explore, this time, how we can actually make connections in the dramatic performance elements. For example, making a spaghetti bridge and having students do a skit as they build it to model tension building in the skit as it builds on the bridge. I like making these types of connections between out of physics concepts and the ones in the class. One benefit of the theatre approach is that it has some studied benefits in attracting (young) girls to STEM. I would be very interested in looking what groups benefit most from this type of activity (eg. look at Girls and LGBT), and even which might be left behind.
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