Collaborative activity

Three 10-minute talks followed by a moderated group discussion.

Three 10-minute talks followed by a moderated discussion.

With parallel sessions, we have COMO: the Certainty Of Missing Out. Come co-create and play with what you learned from the morning sessions you attended and share it with other conference participants, and experience a glimpse of what happened in the sessions you missed!

We are living in a time of escalating uncertainty—politically, culturally, ecologically—and the pull to respond with outrage, protest, or a return to what we think we know is strong. Even in the academy, where experimentation has historically been valued, many feel the urge to retreat to the familiar. But what if this moment calls for something else?

In Boxes, Dualisms and Rhizomes, Carrie Lobman invites us to embrace collective imagination and creative activity. We can’t get out of the box—but we can imagine getting out of the box. And in that act of imagining, something new might become possible.

This talk is a call to cultivate ensembles that don’t just resist the constraints of the present, but perform their way beyond them—where unknowability is embraced, and playful, dialectical activity becomes a path to new ways of seeing, relating, and becoming.

Bring your dreams and open curiosity to the CE Jamboree! You will connect with creative thought partners to explore, build, and co-create. Throughout the conference, there will be opportunities to continue playing with the same or new ideas and people (the “Co-Play Jamboree” sessions on the program, such as this one). On Saturday afternoon, everyone will have a chance to share what they have played with throughout the Jamboree sessions. Discover what magic might happen when we make time and space to co-create with each others’ wild ideas during CE.

All-you-can-eat lunch buffet for $10.50 (includes grill, sandwiches, salad, pizza, dessert, fruit bar)

Collaborative share out from early afternoon sesssions

Cultivating Communities of Hope: Playful Responses to Ethical-Political Suffering in São Paulo, Viviane Carrijo
Designing Curriculum for Teaching Programming with Comics, Hongzip Kim 
Once Upon a Neuron: Using a Narrative Game to Teach Neuron Communication, Nicole E Calma-Roddin
Song in STEMM: Lifting our VOICES, Nicole E Calma-Roddin
PUNCH Outreach, Cherilynn Morrow and Nick Gross
Stories of Freedom and Independence, Raquell Holmes (improvscience)
Mapping Perception Across Disciplines to Build Community in STEAM Education, Research and Leadership, Rhoda Donat-Flowers
Learning Biology with Comics; Transition to no-exam Anatomy and Physiology Classroom, Sofya Borinskaya

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Bring your dreams and open curiosity to the CE Jamboree! You will connect with creative thought partners to explore, build, and co-create. Throughout the conference, there will be opportunities to continue playing with the same or new ideas and people (the “Co-Play Jamboree” sessions on the program, such as this one). On Saturday afternoon, everyone will have a chance to share what they have played with throughout the Jamboree sessions. Discover what magic might happen when we make time and space to co-create with each others’ wild ideas during CE.

Bring your dreams and open curiosity to the CE Jamboree! You will connect with creative thought partners to explore, build, and co-create. Throughout the conference, there will be opportunities to continue playing with the same or new ideas and people (the “Co-Play Jamboree” sessions on the program, such as this one). On Saturday afternoon, everyone will have a chance to share what they have played with throughout the Jamboree sessions. Discover what magic might happen when we make time and space to co-create with each others’ wild ideas during CE.

Warning: this presentation and activities involve strobe lights flashing at various frequencies. Some people react adversely to these frequencies. If you feel unsteady, please let us know and we’ll help you leave the room for that part of the activities. 

Come co-create and play with what you learned from the morning workshop you attended and share it with other conference participants, and experience a glimpse of what happened in the sessions you missed!

Bring your dreams and open curiosity to the CE Jamboree! You will connect with creative thought partners to explore, build, and co-create. Throughout the conference, there will be opportunities to continue playing with the same or new ideas and people (the “Co-Play Jamboree” sessions on the program, such as this one). On Saturday afternoon, everyone will have a chance to share what they have played with throughout the Jamboree sessions. Discover what magic might happen when we make time and space to co-create with each others’ wild ideas during CE.

Theater arts go far beyond the performances seen on stage, and each discipline brings a unique perspective to making compelling art. In this interactive session, we’ll start by reviewing what the other theater disciplines do, from directing to design, and discuss how these skills and perspectives can enhance science communication. Then we’ll dive into those perspectives and plan science communication “plays” together!

Three 10-minute talks followed by a moderated discussion.

Collaborative share-out from early afternoon sesssions

Throughout the conference, there have been opportunities to connect with creative thought partners to explore, build, and co-create (the “Co-Play Jamboree” sessions on the program). In this session, everyone will have a chance to share what they have played with throughout the Jamboree sessions. Discover what magic results when we make time and space to co-create with each others’ wild ideas during CE!

Collaborative share-out from late afternoon sessions

Join us for an exciting and interactive closing activity for CE 2025.