Idea Expo

At this year’s Idea Expo, a wide range of topics will be on display, from cutting-edge research to creative solutions tackling real-world challenges. Browse the presentations, meet the innovators behind them, and dive into conversations that could spark your next big idea.

AI-Driven Workforce Readiness: Lessons from Cybersecurity Education

Augmented Reality, Art, and the Power of Imagination

: Realizing that Augmented Reality was the way to bring all of my efforts together. I developed my own App that would bring my work to life. I immerse the viewer in my world. I am able to communicate with my audience in a new way and the look of joy on their faces when the work of art leaps off the page and allows them to interact with the content is truly satisfying.

Career Readiness, Goals, Internships: Creating the Future of Work

: The career readiness program is student-focused, students decide what they want to explore. The experiences have spanned many careers, from trade fields to white-collar pursuits, including healthcare jobs and a heavy equipment operators union. The students tour job sites, discuss future education requirements, and hear about typical work experiences. The program focuses on engineering and construction, health science and medical services, manufacturing, business and finance, and public administration. The goal is to expose students to career opportunities and help them make connections for possible future internships or apprenticeships while also helping them pursue college credits and professional certificates.

Creating Transformational Change in Workplaces and Ensuring HR Best Practices

: The Bradley Partnerships works with small businesses and organizations in multiple industry segments such as government, healthcare, manufacturing, energy, education and non-profits to help them accomplish their organizational strategic objectives. From organizational assessments, outsourced human resource solutions, staffing and recruitment, employee training, corporate outplacement, executive coaching, and customized leadership development programs, organizational consulting efforts assist clients in making the right choices to capitalize on their strengths and address their business challenges in the areas of bench-marking surveys and analysis, focus groups, leadership assessments, and talent management. How may we help you?

Does Choice and Fragmentation in the Curriculum Hinder the Development of Advanced Research Skills?

: Despite the broad diversity of different colleges and universities in the U.S., the undergraduate degree looks remarkably consistent across disciplines. The major takes up less than half of most degrees. Each course is largely independent of others in the degree. It is left to students to make connections and logically sequence their learning, which means it is highly inconsistent. Are the values of choice and breadth so important that they must dominate the curriculum to the exclusion of coherence? Is it possible to develop advanced skills for all students in its absence? Is this system still fit for purpose?

Empower a Technologically Fluent Generation Through Experiential Learning Opportunities

: Actively connecting teachers across school districts with professional learning communities, tools, and best practices to develop competent and technologically fluent students. ABC CREATE centers its core values in all its initiatives: Equitable Access, Collaboration, Technological Fluency, Innovative Teaching and Learning.

Empowering Gen Z to Be What They Want to Be

: Damola and Wole are empowering students to be the STEAM superhero rap version of themselves. They learn storytelling and gain a sense of identity and expression utilizing his art and TOYZSTEAM program. Super Hero Rap is based on Idealism, which is the student’s ideal world and vision of their best self. The villain is their obstacle. Their superpowers are based on using STEAM concepts to overcome their obstacles.

Engaging with Generative AI

: Explore an AI literacy micro-course to promote familiarity with generative AI tools and AI-informed teaching and learning practices among RMU faculty and students. The goal: to deliver basic practical knowledge of available generative AI technologies, an understanding of privacy and ethical issues associated with use, knowledge of the importance of evaluating output accuracy, and an understanding of the documentation requirements, the attribution of sources, and compliance with relevant use policies.

Exploring the Impact of AI Curriculum on Workforce Preparedness in Business Graduates

: Collaborations around workforce preparations. Investigating the relationship between university curricula in artificial intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technologies and the professional preparedness of recent graduates from business schools.

Fab Learning Academy: International Certification Program for Educators

: Digital makerspaces have the power to support culturally relevant, student-centered teaching and learning. Let's work together to unlock the potential of this toolset in classrooms across the globe.

From College to Career: Connecting Facuty and Career Services for Impact

: Career readiness initiatives, including coursework and internships, help prepare undergraduates for life after college. While career services support this development, student engagement and effectiveness vary. Faculty can influence students’ career preparation, yet this role is often overlooked. Presenting key findings and offering practical, replicable strategies for faculty-career center collaboration, including integrated advising, department-based career programming, and faculty training. These solutions aim to better support students' career readiness and post-graduation success, whether entering the job market or pursuing further education.

Future Ready: Where AI, Robots, and Workforce Development Converge

: Discover how the NCPA LaunchBox and AI Applied Consortium Robotic Sandbox at Penn State DuBois are shaping the future of manufacturing in North Central Pennsylvania. Explore how AI and robotics are being integrated onto the factory floor, how local industry and educators are collaborating to upskill the current workforce, and how youth-focused programs are inspiring the next generation of makers, technicians, and innovators.

Hands on Learning with Technology Innovation!

: The Fab Lab is a digital fabrication studio that provides hands-on experiences with technology like 3D printers, laser cutters, and more to encourage innovation and creativity. Students learn fabrication tools and develop prototyping and testing designs in real-world applications.

PathQuester: Your Perfect Partner in Achieving Career Dreams

: Empowering career education utilizing AI and data informed decisions. Ensuring individuals have the most relevant and up-to-date information about the ever-changing career landscape at their fingertips.

Relationships at the Heart of Transformation

: Growth flourishes through the connections we consciously cultivate. At Aminata Diatta, we prioritize strengthening relationships as catalysts for transformation, not only with ourselves but also with our environment, resources, and communities. Through coaching and facilitation, we create supportive spaces for individuals and communities to gain clarity, alignment and collective understanding. Curious about how we can work together? Stop by and let’s share!

School Partners Needed!

: The challenge: Using podcasting in schools in order to up skill communication and soft skills all the while using and exploring technologies and artificial intelligence responsibly. The need: we need additional schools to explore programming. It’s very 1:1 and educator driven so it’s not interruptive. Our hope: “Get on the ship now before it leaves the station and everyone is left on the dock.” Be one of the first – stop by now!

See Things Differently, Get There Faster

: Whether it’s deciding on a business direction, defining a product or customer experience, or working out a process, introducing new ideas is challenging. Large organizations have specialists to guide innovation. Branching Design provides this expertise for smaller organizations and nonprofits. Branching Design helps clients see things differently through facilitated innovation workshops. Together, we frame and explore your goals and problems in highly collaborative structured sessions. In as few as three sessions, clients arrive at insightful observations and ideas that inform better decisions and solutions.

The Eduling Educator Dashboard

: Create your own class on Eduling Educator Dashboard to add your students and assign tasks from our task library. Students' submission includes their recording, transcript, AI feedback, and detailed linguistic analysis. You can easily grade their work, add additional comments, and monitor their progress!

The Legacy Storytelling Method: Digging Deeper

Integrate storytelling into your life and work. The Legacy Storytelling Method is based on the 5 W's and is the backbone of everything in the Legacy World.

Who • What • When • Where • Why

These simple prompts are followed by what I affectionately call the "Digging Deeper" questions. These questions give people an opportunity to reflect and dig into their emotions and legacy.

The Mission: Honoring the Past, Impacting the Future

: It’s about a colossal treasure trove of handcrafted wooden steelmaking patterns used in the sand casting of steel machine parts, collected from a shuttered steel mill in Youngstown, Ohio, and stored away for decades in a nearby barn. Its discovery and a lot of coincidences have come together to result in The Patterns of Meaning, which highlights these artifacts with the work of local artist Cory Bonnet. The displays have become a permanent exhibit of this nearly lost aspect of the steel casting industry.