STEAM is an educational approach that incorporates the Arts and Culture into the more-familiar STEM model: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. STEAM education has been an integral component of the GEN2050® program since 2017. Beginning in June 2023, the first GEN2050® STEAM Module, entitled “The Sea” will be implemented by GEN2050® Summer Camp students and a small group of non-profits serving youth in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The “GEN2050® STEAM Module: The Sea” is being developed by the GEN2050®️ team, along with the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, and Biscayne National Park. All GEN2050® STEAM Modules will include mindfulness-based social emotional learning and wellness instruction, utilizing GEN2050® Mindful Learning Environment principles and practices. Additional GEN2050® STEAM Modules will become available each summer. Please note the current list below:
**2023 (pilot group only) GEN2050® STEAM Module: The Sea
—2024 GEN2050® STEAM Module: The Sea
—2025 GEN2050® STEAM Module: The Sky
—2026 GEN2050® STEAM Module: The Land
—2027 GEN2050® STEAM Module: Futuristic Technologies
—2028 GEN2050® STEAM Module: Ethnobotany and the Expressive Arts
Mindfulness is being in the present moment, aware of what is happening in that moment as it's happening, with a nonjudgmental attitude. The GEN2050®️ Program was designed with mindfulness-based practices built into its foundation. Youth learn mindfulness-based practices and how to integrate mindfulness into their everyday lives, enhancing their social emotional wellness, reducing the impacts of stress, as well as increasing their capacity to practice gratitude and compassion. To read more about GEN2050®️ Mindfulness-based practices please click the link:
If you are a Youth Development Provider agency for The Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade County, the GEN2050®️ STEAM Modules fulfill the program enhancement requirements for
*STEM,
*Arts & Culture, and
*Social Emotional Learning/Social Emotional Wellness
GEN2050®️ STEAM Modules include:
** a three-day Train the Trainer Workshop with quarterly, on-site technical assistance and refresher trainings, providing both STEAM curriculum facilitator training and Social Emotional Wellness training for provider agency staff,
**all curriculum and program supplies for student participants,
**student participant fees for practicums at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and Biscayne National Park (4th-12th grade) and Crandon Park (K-3rd grade), as well as entrance fees for agency staff.
GEN2050®️ STEAM Module Developers:
- Linda Freeman, Environmental engineer, National Geographic Explorer, and creator of the GEN2050®️ Program
- Analisa Duran, Assistant Director of Educational Programs, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science
- Carrie Scott, Biscayne National Park Ranger
- Frederick Hubbard, Master Science Teacher and Executive Director of the Environmental Awareness Academy.
- Anne Haywood, Science Curriculum Developer, National Geographic Fellow, founder of Mountain to Sea Education
- David Freeman, Computer Engineer and Software Developer
- Dr. Gus Castellanos, MD, retired Neurologist and Mindfulness (MBSR) Instructor
- Brianna Woods, Biomedical engineer, and certified scuba diver
To learn more about this innovative STEAM curriculum - including its hands-on, outdoor science education practicums at Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and Biscayne National Park - and how modules can be purchased for implementation at your organization, along with pricing, send an email to: linda@gen2050.com
(**The GEN2050®️ STEAM Modules pilot group has been selected. This group of youth will pilot each module the summer prior to the module becoming available to the public.)