Location
Windmill Library

7060 W Windmill Ln., Las Vegas, NV 89113

Schedule of Events zCon EDU 2024

June 5

4 pm - 7 pm: Check in, badge and swag pick up, and optional bootcamp

June 6 

✅ = Indicates session for all attendees
❔ = indicates session choice for attendee

8:30-9:15

Meet and Network + Morning pastries, coffee, and juice

🔷Downstairs Meeting Room

Keynote - 9:15-10:15

The Power of Collaboration with Kristen Brooks ✅

Auditorium

Engage Session 1 - 10:30-11:15 

AI and Career Exploration (Julie Willcott) ❔

Enter a world of Artificial Intelligence combined with learning about Careers and focusing learning for students in various careers and pathways. Julie will share a new zSpace application called Career Coach AI and more!

Auditorium

Deb Atchison - Ask zSpace about Training Teachers on zSpace ❔

Ask Deb your questions and learn how to foster building capacity to train and use zSpace at your school.

🟢Upstairs - Ask zSpace

App Alley Open Time ❔

⭐Upstairs - zTech Space

Engage Session 2  - 11:25-12:10 

Teaching with zSpace - New Products: sneak peek at Math Island A3 and Scholarlab simulations (Julie Willcott) ❔

zSpace has two new products coming soon for math and science. Go on a journey with her to see what is coming and how it will impact your teaching in these areas.

Auditorium

The zSpace Automotive Garage ❔

Whether you have a garage full of automobiles or are just thinking about starting your auto pathway, this session is focused on those who want to learn how to teach better with zSpace Automotive applications (plus a peek at the newest auto applications for Maintenance and Repair, Technicians, and Structure Technology ).

🟥Upstairs

Sheena Shoemaker: Ask zSpace about Health Science! ❔

Ask Sheena your questions and learn how to better integrate and use zSpace in your Health Science classrooms and labs.

🟢Upstairs - Ask zSpace

zArts with zSpace + ShapeLab demo licenses (Nic Finelli) ❔

Discover all of the fun ways you can promote and create as 3D art comes alive with zSpace and allows users to visualize learning in many ways. Participants will also receive ShapeLab demo licenses.

⭐Upstairs- zTech Space

Leadership with zSpace and the school community + Monitoring implementation (Joe Parlier) ❔

Planning and shaping your zSpace initiative takes leadership and direction. In this session participants will have the opportunity to discover some best practices for administrators to lead their initiatives with zSpace at their school or district.

🔷Downstairs Meeting Room

zSpace Stories - 1:10-2:10

Three stories from zSpacers around the country and how they have integrated zSpace (Tommy Clay, Nicole Heaver, and Dr. Amanda Gardner)✅

Auditorium

Engage Session 3 - 2:20-3:10 

Career Exploration and Blueprint for Tomorrow Planning for School and District Leaders (Andrew Gardner) ❔

Andrew will take you through a journey to spark your blueprint for tomorrow’s schools and school districts with career exploration and career education leading the way. 

Auditorium

Code CAD with BlocksCAD (Nikki Meador)❔

Coding to design and make things is what BlocksCAD is all about, but what you learn in math and computer science along the way is phenomenal! Explore this session and learn how to use BlocksCAD with zSpace.

🟥Upstairs

Using CTE apps in Workforce Development: Focus on Advanced Manufacturing (Clinton Barnes) ❔

Ask Clint your questions and learn how to better integrate and use zSpace in your CTE classrooms and labs settings. Clint has been integrating zSpace in his manufacturing classrooms for over 5 years and has many tips and tricks to share.

🟢Upstairs - Ask zSpace

The Rx For Higher Engagement in Health Science Classrooms (Dawn Gifford-Jimenez - Beaufort HS, Sheena Shoemaker & Robin Slunder) ❔

Learn how Beaufort HS is integrating zSpace into PLTW Biomedical courses.  Dawn Gifford-Jimenez will share how she has become a zSpace champion including best practice tips as you begin embedding zSpace into Health Science. Ask questions about zSpace in your Health Science classrooms and labs. Share lesson and lab ideas.
🔷Downstairs Meeting Room

Engage Session 4 - 3:20-4:10 

Showing zSpace for Community Events (Sheena Shoemaker) ❔

In this session, you will learn some fantastic easy-to-take zSpace on the road or just highlight the amazing technology and what it affords learners to larger audiences. Learn tips and key areas to spotlight as you share zSpace with your larger community.

Auditorium

Tonya Hinton and Robin Slunder: Ask zSpace - Got ONE zSpace? or Making the Most of zSpace Centers & Station Rotation ❔

If your zSpace environment has 1 device or just a few, this session is for you! Join us to learn and see best practices for teaching and learning with zSpace and take home some tips, tricks, and templates

🟥Upstairs

Deb Atchison: Ask zSpace ❔
Ask Deb about how to accelerate learning of zSpace and teaching others how to use. She has great professional learning strategies. 

🟢Upstairs - Ask zSpace

Julie Willcott: Ask zSpace about Product Feedback ❔

Ask Julie questions about providing feedback on current and future zSpace applications.

⭐Upstairs - zTech Space

Revolutionizing Creativity: Unleashing the Power of Design Thinking (Azine Davoudzadeh and Dee Dickson)❔

Level up your teaching as you learn how to integrate design thinking into your everyday learning with zSpace.

🔷Downstairs Meeting Room

Engage Session 5 - 4:20-5:20

zSpace Amazing Race - Gamified Learning of zSpace (Deb Atchison)❔

Accelerate your learning of zSpace apps through gamification! A thrilling experience that replicates the reality TV Show, The Amazing Race. Participants will work in groups to solve different challenges, roadblocks, and detours along their way learning how to use perpetual zSpace.

Auditorium

Clint Barnes: Focus on Automotive and Instruction (Clinton Barnes) ❔

Ask Clint your questions and learn how to better integrate and use zSpace in your CTE classrooms and labs settings. Clint has been integrating zSpace in his manufacturing classrooms for over 5 years and has many tips and tricks to share.

🟢Upstairs - Ask zSpace

Deep Dive with STEM Apps (Tonya Hinton and Kristina Davis) ❔

Practice and learn more about zSpace’s STEM apps such as Newton’s Park A3 (Physical Sciences), Franklin’s Lab (Electricity), and zSpace Physics. 

⭐Upstairs - zTech Space

7:00-8:30 pm (Optional) Hangout with zSpace - Play Playground - Atrium level of Luxor Hotel (cost $37 per person) 

June 7

8:30-9:00

Meet and Network + Morning pastries, coffee, and juice

🔷Downstairs Meeting Room

Integrating zSpace - 9:05-9:30 

Day 1 Reflection + Group 📸+ Day 2 Integrating zSpace ✅

A quick recap of day 1 followed by a group picture, then a focus towards integration and what can make zSpace a big part of how you teach and learn.

Auditorium

Engage Session 6 - 9:15-10:15 

Creating zSpace Lessons and adding them to your LMS (Nic Finelli) ❔

Learn how to create lessons for zSpace activities that meet your needs, curriculum, and LMS. While some zSpace apps allow you to create and save your own lessons in the native app files, others allow you to link or use your planning to integrate the app to what your need for students. We will show you how to do all of these!

Auditorium

zSpace Leadership Planning (Robin Slunder) ❔

We will use this time to collaborate and plan out strategies and actual processes you need to put in place to make zSpace at your school successful. 

🟥Upstairs

zSparks Bell Ringers: Quick ways to engage and learn + Curriculum Mapping for elementary and primary classrooms (Kristina Davis) ❔

Grab your curriculum and start aligning all that you do with zSpace apps and lessons that will impact learning the most in your classroom. Facilitators will guide you through best practices and examples to get you started.

🟢Upstairs - Ask zSpace

zSparks Bell Ringers: Quick ways to engage and learn + Curriculum Mapping for secondary classrooms (Tonya Hinton) ❔

Grab your curriculum and start aligning all that you do with zSpace apps and lessons that will impact learning the most in your classroom. Facilitators will guide you through best practices and examples to get you started.

⭐Upstairs -- zTech Space

zSparks Bell Ringers: Quick ways to engage and learn + Curriculum Mapping for your Multi-use learning spaces (Deb Atchison)  ❔

Start aligning all that you want to offer with your zSpace apps along with your thematic or scheduled activities that you already offer. Combine and organize them so you get the most  impact and compliment the learning you want to promote. Facilitators will guide you through best practices and examples to get you started.

🔷Downstairs Meeting Room

Closing Session - 10:45-11:45 

The Future of zSpace with  zSpace Chief Product, Engineering and Marketing Officer Mike Harper and Closing Remarks (host - Joe Parlier) ✅

Auditorium

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