2021 STEAM Education PROCEEDINGS

Title
Cantorvals, Their Topological Structure, and the Generalization of the Guthrie/Nyman Set

Synopsis
With interesting topological properties, the Cantor set is worth studying for itself. In other areas, topological structures arise that are in fact homeomorphic to the Cantor set. In particular, we see sets that are homeomorphic to the Cantor set which result from the subsums of particular series, as well as linear combinations of algebraic sums of Cantor sets. These also result in what has been termed a Cantorval, which we also investigate.

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Title
Online Learning: Insights from COVID
Conversions in Higher Education

Synopsis
The 2020/2021 COVID-19 pandemic has conceivably altered the educational landscape for many years to come – potentially forever. Educators heroically migrated to alternative distance learning approaches almost overnight. This study explores how higher education students evaluate online learning approaches. Specifically, this study compares student responses among different disciplines. Findings indicate that students from some academic areas responded favorably to techniques that students from other academic areas found less favorable. The results of this study indicate that student needs in online learning may be predictable by the degree programs in which the student enrolls. Implications for customizing online learning based on degree category are provided.

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Title
Challenges With Enrollment Increases”
Lessons Learned in the Trenches

Synopsis
This panel discussion addresses how four college-level leaders have managed the demands associated with dramatic increases in enrollment. Providing perspectives from the levels of professor, department chair, program director, associate dean, and dean, the challenges of persistent enrollment increases coupled with irregular infusions of supporting resources are discussed.

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Title
What has Gatekeeper Training Got to Do With It?
Understanding Educators and Student Leaders
Initial Baseline Knowledge and
Comfort Level of Question-Persuade-Refer (QPR)
Gatekeeper Training

Synopsis
A baseline understanding and comfort level of topics and concepts covered in QPR: Question, Persuade, Refer Gatekeeper Training of 1172 k-12 and higher education professionals and student leaders.

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Title
Increasing the STEM Teaching Pipeline

Synopsis
Tennessee Tech University’s – STEM Majors for Rural Teaching (TTU-SMaRT) Noyce Scholarship Program aims to produce highly qualified teachers of mathematics, physics and chemistry to help address the high demand for STEM educators nationally. Over 40 STEM majors have participated in the Early Teaching Experience internship, 20 STEM majors have been supported by Noyce scholarships. We share lessons learned over the past 9 years regarding key partnerships, successful recruitment, and programming.

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Title
Experiential Investigation of STEAM
Projects: Art and Engineering

Synopsis
Schools at all levels are implementing Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) programs, but not all share the same goals or the same outcomes. Ideally, STEAM programs foster whole-person development by improving creativity and innovation, by teaching technical concepts within a meaningful context, and by improving the balance between logical/cognitive thinking and creative thinking. This should result in both wellrounded citizens and improved problem-solving skills. In this study, a professional artist and a mechanical engineering professor collaborated on a STEAM project in order to investigate the factors that lead to STEAM projects.

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Title
Sustaining STEM/STEAM on a College Campus

Synopsis
College campuses that launch STEM/STEAM Programs often neglect to establish a STEM/STEAM sustainability plan. STEAM events tend to be random acts or stand-alone events without intentional integrated or collaborative connections across the STEAM disciplines, faculty or students. STEM/STEAM initiatives, goals and objectives require adequate staffing, administrative support, funding, equipment, training and key stakeholders in order to strategically sustain a robust STEAM college campus. In order to continuously support and maintain the efforts in STEAM on a College Campus a STEAM sustainability plan should consider the six core components.

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Title
Solving Third Order Ordinary Differential
Equations by Using Ricatti Equations

Synopsis
This paper deals with an analytic approach for solving third order ordinary differential equations (ODEs). We show that a general linear differential equation has an associated Ricatti type equation. In addition, the coefficients of the differential equation associated to the integrating factor for the original equation verify Ricatti type equations. The solutions for these Ricatti differential equations are related to the solutions of the original differential equation.

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Title
A New Interactive Virtual and Physical Manipulatives (VPM)
Education Technology for Spatial Training

Synopsis
Spatial skills are important in learning a variety of subject matters in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Training of students’ spatial skills, however, has not received adequate attention in STEM education. This presentation focuses on the demonstration of a new interactive virtual and physical manipulatives (VPM) education technology we recently developed for spatial training.

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Hypoallergenic Air LLC
Las Vegas, Nevada

Air Oasis
Amarillo, Texas

Title
A Novel Air Purifier: Assessment on the
Reduction of the Mold and Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM 2.5)

Synopsis
Aerosols, including Particulate Matter 2.5, are the culprits of many allergic reactions and respiratory syndromes. Particulate Matter 2.5 is present in heavily polluted areas such as southern Californian cities, New Delhi, China and New York. Based on studies from clinics and hospital admissions, PM2.5 has been positively correlated with increased cases of allergic rhinitis, asthma, bronchitis, allergic pharyngitis and many others. We used a novel technology AHPCO to reduce molds and PM 2.5.

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Air for Life UK Ltd.
Linford Wood, United Kingdom

KIIT School of Biotechnology
Bhubaneswar, India

Title
An Assessment of the AFL Mini Sanifier II®
in Terms of Reducing the Incidence of Canine Allergy

Synopsis
With the current unprecedented situation of COVID-19, indoor air-quality has become a major concern all over the world. Air quality has become a greatly challenging issue and millions of people are dying due to polluted, unacceptable air quality in different countries of the world. There is a great demand for an energy efficient air purifier that cleans up the air efficiently. With revolutionary, energy-efficient technology, that is filterless, the AFL Mini II fights impurities by cleaning and sanitising the air and surfaces in rooms up to 330 square feet. This includes nurseries, bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, hotel rooms, aeroplanes, motor homes and more. The long-life UVC lamp fitted in the AFL Mini Sanifier II® destroys germs as they pass through UV light. The light rays react with the nano metal AFLPCO® catalyst to produce an abundance of negative ions, which find and destroy carbon-based molecules including bacteria, viruses and VOCs. Hydrocarbon contaminants are broken down into water and carbon dioxide. The AFL PLASMA® ionisers reduce aero-allergenic particulate matter such as dust, pollen, PM2.5 and pet dander.

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Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania

Title
Speech-Language Pathology and People
Of Color: A Social Justice Perspective

Synopsis
Bridging the gap between racial/ethnic and linguistic minorities and speech services is imperative to building a better foundation for students in need of these services. This paper will inform policy and practice by providing better insight on this issue through a social justice lens not only for the field of Speech-Language Pathology, but the minority communities and their deep-rooted beliefs and experiences that may contribute to this challenged relationship.

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Forest Hills High School
Queens, New York

Queens High School for the Sciences at York College
Jamaica, New York

Title
The Impact of COVID-19 on Students’ Perceptions of
Imposter Syndrome: An Exploratory Study Applied to
High-Achieving Asian Female High School Students
in New York City

Synopsis
Imposter syndrome is a mental health issue that affects how individuals depict themselves and is often delineated through their feelings of inadequacy and incompetence despite evidence of success and achievement. With COVID-19, students in New York City have been taking virtual classes for about a year already. Virtual schooling usually allows students to converse with their teachers and fellow classmates through video conferencing and internet chatting, but it also does not allow any physical or face-to-face interaction of any kind. This study attempted to investigate the perceptions of the high-achieving female Asian students regarding imposter syndrome and the impact of the virtual learning due to COVID-19 on students’ perceptions of the imposter syndrome.

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Title
Of Gods and Tricksters: The Making
and Killing of Gods in Octavia Butler’s
Patternmaster Series

Synopsis
Future Blacks will be gods in Butler’s Patternmaster series. Her Afrofuturism enables them with creative and destructive power, messages of resistance and resilience. She explores ethics of power and abuse; weaves love stories with great loss and tragedy. Patternmaster series uses ex-slave narratives’, tricksterism, resistance, suffering and complicity, ultimately delineating costs of survival. Her bold use of the motif is a labyrinth of emotional, psychological, and physical bondage in a shell of psionic power. She both makes and kills gods.

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Department of Data Science
Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, New Jersey

Title
Multifractal Analysis of Daily US COVID-19 Cases

Synopsis
In this work, we applied the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDA) to analyze the highly irregular behavior or volatility clustering of daily COVID-19 cases in the United States. We use the multifractal spectrum of the MFDFA to characterize the path and predict short or long-memory behavior of the time series on different time scales. Empirical results from the generalized Hurst exponent (gHE) and multifractal spectrum estimation indicates that path of the COVID-19 cases is multifractal and keeps becoming less fractal as the days progresses.

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Title
Plugged and Unplugged Reading:
Preferences of Young Readers

Synopsis
Read and discover why classrooms should provide students time for plugged eBook (electronic books) reading and unplugged reading tBook or (traditional books). Clearly, preference matters to young readers!

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Title
Hanpuku Learning: A New Information
Technology Education Method by Introducing
National Certificate of Japan into Bangladesh

Synopsis
In this paper, we summarize the current status and issues of IT education in Bangladesh, and then describe the effects of introduction of Hanpuku Learning, a unique teaching method for ITEE. It also shows the excellence of young people in Bangladesh, which wants to become an IT nation, and proposes a possibility that is beneficial to both Japan and Bangladesh. The effect of the introducing ITEE is excellent, and it can be determined that the Japanese-style Hanpuku Learning adapted to Bangladesh.

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Title
Applying A Universal Design Of Inclusion In Higher Education

Synopsis
Universal Design of Inclusion (UDI) creates an environment that enables all students to succeed across all curricular experiences. This paper presents the argument that the application of UDI as a deliberative process of policy development will inform and impact practice in the areas of student affairs, professional development, instructional practices and sustainability. This will ensure access and improved outcomes for all students including students with exceptionalities in higher education.

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Title
Life Influencers as Significant Contributors
to Student Motivation and Academic
Achievement at the Graduate School Level

Synopsis
Graduate non-traditional learners from various backgrounds attend universities all over the country, to achieve a piece or even a portion of what they are told is American success. For many of these students, they are met with financial challenges, emotional strain, stressors, trauma, triggers, learning disabilities, maladaptive behavior traits, interpersonal relationship trauma and a plethora of other issues.

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Title
Critical Reflection and Challenges in
Creating A Multi-Level Cyber Wellness
Policy to Support Digital Citizenship

Synopsis
People routinely underestimate effects of their actions, yet the implications can be profound. This paper will address contemporary issues of cyber wellness and reflect upon challenges and solutions that are necessary to promote cyber-wellness. It will provide an opportunity to discuss what kind of policies (at micro, meso, macro level) should be developed to promote cyber-wellness. In this paper I will contextualize the conversation addressing policy development supportive to cyber wellness.

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Title
A Christmas Carol en La Frontera:
Producing Bilingual Work During Quarantine

Synopsis
An interactive presentation of the process of writing, directing, and re-writing (for radio) the classic, A Christmas Carol, for a Frontera audience. A Christmas Carol en La Frontera had its premiere in 2018 at UT-El Paso and had a deep impact on audience members from both sides of the Frontera, especially school audiences. COVID-19 further spurred the reimagining of this show; it shifted from the stage to the radio. Samples from the text, video clips, and photos will further the conversation.

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Title
Preparing Teachers to Teach Computational Thinking with 3D Weather Data Visualization

Synopsis
The 3D Weather Analysis and Visualization (3D Weather) project is being funded by the NSF STEM+C grant to develop secondary science learning modules and teacher workshops for teaching computational thinking through 3D visualization of weather data using Unidata’s Integrated Data Viewer (IDV). This paper reports on the design-based research study in the first project year on the iterative process of developing, revising, and improving the modules and the teacher workshop.

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Title
Songs of Japonisme – Early 20th Century
Art Songs from Japan and the West

Synopsis
Songs of Japonisme, is a lecture recital presentation that surveys the musical influence of the Japonisme movement in the art-song repertoire of the early twentieth century. The works performed are by both Japanese and Western composers, such as Yamada, Nobutoki, Marx, Santoliquido and Martinů. This presentation is to showcase some of these composers’ neglected works, performed in five languages, English, French, German, Japanese and Czech.

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Title
Saving a Life: The Impact of COVID
on the Opioid Crisis

Synopsis
The national opioid crisis continues to ravage our nation with over 221 overdose deaths per day, nearly doubling since last year, and deeply affecting our neighborhoods, schools, and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to drastically hamper the already overly burdened access to treatment in our country. Addiction is an “equal opportunity disease,” and can strike any person, from any background, culture, or environment. Few truly understand the irrepressible anguish of the addicted person’s withdrawal that compels continued use. This presentation discusses the raw realities of addiction, the profound hope found in recovery, and the humanistic advocacy role that more police are engaging in as first responders to help those afflicted.

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