Student-to-Student Conference 2012 - CAG Santa Lucia Region California Association for the Gifted, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties, Region 5

Fourth Annual Student-to-Student Conference
Saturday May 12, 2012  ~  1:00–5:00 pm
Cowell Colleges, UC Santa Cruz

Students present workshops on their favorite subjects; other students attend these workshops! Open to all students grades 3–12 in Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Monterey, San Benito and San Mateo Counties. You do not need to be a GATE-identified student in order to attend the conference, or to present a workshop. Everyone is welcome to this FREE conference!

New this year: Lunch served from 12–1!

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Students grades 3–12 (and their parents/guardians) are invited to attend a conference by and for students. The conference is open to ALL students from throughout the region: Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Monterey and San Benito Counties. You do not need to be a GATE-identified student in order to attend the conference, or to present a workshop. Everyone is welcome!

Two Ways to Participate—plus a campus tour:

• Students can present a workshop of their choice, and also attend other students’ workshops. (More information about presenting, including a list of possible topics below.)
• Students can attend the conference without presenting, and just enjoy other students’ workshops.
• And before the conference itself, UCSC Admissions is offering a FREE walking tour of the UCSC campus. More info below.

At the conference, students will offer a wide variety of 25-minute workshops and presentations to other students. Much like an adult professional conference, students will receive a program that lists the various presentations and workshops, and can choose to attend up to six sessions.

Location:

This TOTALLY FREE event will be held at Cowell College on the breathtakingly beautiful campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Comprising 2,000 acres of the former Cowell Ranch, the UCSC campus includes rolling meadows and forests of redwoods, oak and madrone, with sweeping views of the Monterey Bay and Pacific Ocean.

Student workshops will be held in the classrooms of Cowell and Stevenson Colleges. Free parking is available, and conference attendees can grab lunch (before the conference) or dinner (after the conference) at the University Dining Hall right at Cowell-Stevenson Colleges, or several other places just a few minutes walk from Cowell-Stevenson. (Several campus maps are available online.)

Students and their families are invited to take a FREE tour of the campus before the conference. The walking tour, hosted by UCSC students and staff, will start and end at Cowell College, and will involve walking approximately 1½ miles—including up and down some hills—during a 90-minute tour. The tour will depart from Cowell College at 10:30 am, returning to Cowell around 12:00 noon, leaving time for lunch before the conference begins at 1:00 pm. With apologies to our younger students, UCSC staff tell us the tour is open only to students grades 6–12, and their families. Please make sure to indicate your interest in taking the tour when you register for the conference, so that UCSC staff can plan accordingly. Hurry, limited space available!

Students and their families are invited to join us for lunch from 12–1 pm at the Cowell College Provost’s House. Make-you-own-sandwiches, a snack and a beverage will be available for free (donations happily accepted), generously funded by Cowell College and an anonymous donor! Whether you’re on the campus tour or just coming early for lunch before the conference, we hope you’ll join us at the Provost’s House for lunch at noon!

The conference program will begin at 1:00 pm sharp! Please plan on arriving by 12:30 (10:00 if you’re taking the tour, 12 for lunch) to park and sign in, so that we can begin on time.

More About Presenting a Workshop:

Students wishing to offer a workshop, performance or other presentation are asked to submit their proposal to us no later than Friday May 8. The registration form has a place for your presentation’s title and a brief description (500 characters max = around 100 words). You can also let us know that you want to present, but will send us your presentation information later. If you do this, make sure we get your workshop info by May 15, or you may not be able to present. And if we get more presentation proposals than we have room for in the schedule, it may be “first come-first served,” so don’t wait too long!

NOTE: A parent, guardian, teacher or other adult (21 years or older) must be in the room while you are presenting!

Teachers and Parents: Encourage your students/children to present a workshop!
Here are a few resources to help you do so:

Helpful Tips for Planning and Presenting a Great Workshop!

Use these “Student Presenter Nomination Award Certificates” to help encourage a student present a workshop—along with the resources linked to above.

Student Presenter Nomination Award Certificates:

• Award Certificate, version 1:
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  • .rtf (for any word processing software, 48 KB )
  • .pdf (48 KB )
• Nomination Award Certificate, version 2:
  • Word .doc (48 KB )
  • .rtf (for any word processing software, 48 KB )
  • .pdf (116 KB )

A Slideshow to Show Students, About the Conference:

This slideshow (737 KB .ppt ) offers a brief overview of the conference and how to plan a presentation.

(This version of the slideshow is missing several slides, that have photos of students presenting workshops at the 2010 conference. Until we get permission to post these images online, we can’t post them. Email Ted (edward_altenberg [at] pvusd [dot] net) and he can email you the picture slides.)

Workshops can be about almost anything, topics you’ve learned about inside or outside of school, including but not limited to any of these topic ideas:

Actual Workshops Presented in Past Years: How to Write an Exciting Story Dance with Masti/Fun How Will Man Get To Mars? Aesthetics Are My Life The History of Godzilla and Other Movie Monsters Cool Math Websites for Kids Environment and Fun: Yes, They Can Go Together! An Edible Guide to the History of Food How I Started My Chemistry Card Company as a Middle Schooler The Owls of California How to Build a Skateboard The Chosen Ones: How to Write a Book Explore the Unknown to Discover Your True Interests The Hindenburg and Zeppelin Travels Across the World Gods, Lettuce & Shoes: An Anthropological Study of Racism The Power of Poetry How to Build a Mac OS X Program Long Distance Backpacking Duo Interpretation of a Disney Story Earthquakes and Designing Earthquake-proof Buildings Do You See What I See? Optical Art The History of LEGOs Inside Frankenstein's Lab ¡Habla español! Learn to speak Spanish! The Culture and Traditions of Mexico The Ins and Outs of Sketching Animals How to Take Care of Geckos Basic Pencil and Pen and Ink Drawing Skills Number Sense: Shortcuts for Math on Any Test The Causes, Battles, and Effects of World War II Origami: Cultural, Scientific, Political, or Just Plain Fun? The Life Cycle of Butterflies Fun with Book Clubs We Love Horses Documentary Film: How to Write, Direct, and Produce Great Ancient Egyptian Artifacts FIRST Robotics — Space Cookie Team Goes to the World Championship

More Workshops Ideas: Mock trial demonstration/simulation Author talks Showing of a film directed by a student Demonstrations: Lincoln Douglas debate, Oxford debate A speech: original or an interpretation of an established text Student congress demonstration/simulation Leading a discussion on a topic of interest Reading original fiction, poetry or an original manuscript Performing a dance Showcasing original art Presenting an original comedy routine Presenting an original instructional game Teaching a skill Introduction to an organization the student wants to promote Leading a critical session on a work of art Analyzing a piece of abstract art Presentation on health and wellness: exercise, diet, sleep Simulation on effective communication in particular contexts Activities to promote selfknowledge Meditation instruction Discussion about a problem and how to solve it Examining why gifted and talented role models sometimes go bad Examining a world issue and the various points of view on that issue Presentation of the work of students from Freestyle High School Comic book presentations Puppet shows Civil rights topics Where films get science wrong Introduction to Pilates or Yoga How to start and run your own business How to persevere How to manage stress What service learning taught me Science fiction writing Designing a galaxy Building robots Chaos theory Presentations on various sports Seeing eye dog training Presentation on a favorite philosopher How to invent and patent something How to publish Women in politics Computer programming How to make friends Group dynamics Presentation on the bystander effect Emotional literacy development How to develop intuition or creativity The fixed mindset vs. the growth mindset

And tons more possible topics! You decide! Come join us and share your interest, your hobby, your expertise, passion!

Registration Now Open!

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