Now through August 18, the Quakertown Community School District seeks your vote to help determine what panel sessions will be presented at the SXSW Conference in March 2025 in Austin, Texas – including a panel session developed by QCSD teachers. You can privately “vote up” or “vote down” all panel session ideas and add comments to each page. Anyone with internet access can vote for as many proposals as they like after creating a PanelPicker account.
Jacki Clymer, STEM Coordinator for QCSD, helped to develop the proposed Connecting Communities Through Cosmic Careers panel session based on collaboration between the district, the company Streamable Learning, and the Moonshot Museum in Pittsburgh, PA. The collaboration led to the opportunity for students at the Sixth Grade Center to take a virtual field trip to the Moonshot Museum through Streamable Learning.
In addition, Quakertown Community High School students attended a live stream titled Cosmic Careers during which they went behind the scenes to see real spacecraft under construction, traced the journey of a robotic lunar lander from concept to reality, and traveled to the lunar surface through astronomy visualization software – all in the context of learning about a wide array of careers available in the space industry today. This collaboration will be the subject of the proposed SXSW panel discussion.
To learn more about the proposed QCSD Cosmic Careers panel session proposal and to cast your vote, please visit http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/154216. Please note: to make your vote count, you are required to create an account with SXSW.
Please cast your vote today in support of spreading the word about this unique learning opportunity developed by the Quakertown Community School District!