Our mission is to use science, technology and engineering to develop persistent curiosity and to show that knowledge is empowering.

CURRICULUM

Book: Making Machines – Out of Paper and Sticks

Collection of lesson plans and videos: The Curiosity Machine

PHONE APPS

Biobots Underwater Sea Rescue Build a Bird  (iPhone) (Android). Click here for limited edition prints of the artwork.

Clean Marine (Android Tablet) Aero (for the iPhone and iPad)

BLOGS

Science of Cooking Iridescent-ONR Studio in the Bronx Iridescent

CONFERENCES AND PUBLICATIONS

Countryman, J. (2011). Retaining Young Women in Computer Science: You Can Make an App for That! Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference, Portland, OR.

Johnston, B. (2011). The Art and Science of Programming Science Through Art. Association of Science & Technology Centers Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland.

Countryman, J. and Hoopes, A. (2011). The Technovation Challenge: Girls Creating Mobile Apps. WEPAN Annual Conference, Seattle, WA.

Explainers as Designers Grant Report (Fall 2011)

Chklovski, T. (2011). Letter to Engineering Students, Fall 2011

Ba, H. (2011). Investigating the implementation of the Be a Scientist! Project in New York City and Los Angeles. Formative Evaluation, Year 1

(2011). USC Viterbi Magazine. Widening the STEM Pipeline. Inspiring Scientific Curiosity in Disadvantaged Communities.

(2011). Girls as Inventors – The Technovation Challenge, proposal to the National Science Foundation, Discovery Research K-12 program. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

Annual Report, 2010

Cumberbatch, T. (2011) Cooper Union Letter to Engineers, Spring 2011

Cumberbatch, T. (2010) Cooper Union Letter to Engineers, Fall 2010

Chklovski, T. and E. Allison (2010). Evaluating impact of an engineer-taught, Family Science program on urban, underserved communities. P-12 Engineering and Design Education Research Summit. Seaside, Oregon.

Chklovski, T. and E. Allison (2010). Lessons from an engineer-taught, Family Science program in urban, underserved communities. P-12 Engineering and Design Education Research Summit. Seaside, Oregon.

Chklovski, T. (2010). Perspective on an engineer-taught, Family Science Program in urban, underserved communities. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

Chklovski, T. (2010). “Engineers as Teachers”, Technology Pilot Project Report. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

Jenkins-Stark, L. and Chklovski, T. (2010). Engineers as Teachers: Helping engineers bring cutting edge science to underserved communities. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) presentations at the 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition Louisville, KY.

Jenkins-Stark, L. and Chklovski, T. (2010). Engineers as Teachers: Bringing cutting-edge math and science topics into underprivileged classrooms via student and professional engineers. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) presentations at the 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, KY.

(2010) Impact of Iridescent’s Family Science Courses on Participants.

Jenkins-Stark, L. and Chklovski, T. (2010). How to inspire and equip urban minority children to become scientists and engineers. National Science Teachers Association, National Conference, Philadelphia, PA

Jenkins-Stark, L. and Chklovski, T. (2010). Life in a fluid: How are bacteria similar to whales? National Science Teachers Association, National Conference, Philadelphia, PA

Hightower, R. and Chklovski, T. (2010). What informal science education resources do urban south Los Angeles parents want?. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

(2009) Be a Scientist! Proposal to the National Science Foundation, Informal Science Education program. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

Chklovski, T. (2009). Sharing the Passion. Mechanical Engineering, The Magazine of ASME.

Yarin, P. and Chklovski, T. (2009). Energy City. National Science Teachers Association, National Conference, New Orleans, LA

McArthur, J. (2007). An Energetic Story. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

McArthur, J. (2007). A Forceful Story. Los Angeles, Iridescent.

Invited Talks

Chklovski, T. (2011). Engineers as Teachers. ASEE Engineering Deans Institute Panel on Outreach, Palm Springs, CA

Chklovski, T. (2010). I IMAGINE. I INVENT. I ENGINEER. Keynote Speech.Expanding Your Horizons, Los Angeles, CA

Chklovski, T. (2009). Attracting Young Minds with “Engineers as Teachers”. American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) presentations at the 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Austin, TX.

Awards

Our Reynolds Number Poster was a semifinalist in the 2009 National Science Foundation (NSF) International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.