Project STITCH

Project STITCH is now recruiting teachers from across the intermountain west for both of our summer professional development workshops.  Teachers will be compensated for their time in addition to being provided with the classroom supplies needed to use these projects in their classrooms.  Please email Mike for more details @michael.oliva@aggiemail.usu.edu.

STEM Teaching Integrating Textiles and Computing Holistically – STITCH STEM Teaching Integrating Textiles and Computing Holistically (STITCH) is a curriculum and professional development project designed to facilitate the development of a curricular approach to STEM content that integrates computer science (both hardware and software applications and development) into STEM curricular content to solve a range of authentic problems across disciplines in grades 6-11. The projects require students to program microprocessors to gather and process the data needed to answer a range of STEM associated questions related to concepts drawn from physics, chemistry, earth science, and life science. E-textiles incorporate elements of embedded computing for controlling the behavior of fabric artifacts. In contrast to conventional wires and breadboards, these artifacts are created using novel materials such as conductive fibers or conductive Velcro, sensors for light, sound, and pressure, and act