Wild Ideas: A Biomimicry of Saguaro National Park April 6-10, 2025 | Tucson, AZ Redemptorist Renewal Center/Saguaro National Park Join us next spring in Saguaro National Park for another biomimicry professional development and nature exploration experience. From Hollywood westerns and tourist postcards, the Sonoran Desert is often depicted as a…
As The Center for Learning With Nature wraps up the second of two 3-year projects training professional development providers in the European Union, it’s worthwhile taking a moment to reflect on how the practice of education can evolve. Six years ago, after seeing the curricula on the LWN website, an…
Wild Ideas: An Introduction to Biomimicry in Acadia National Park July 31 – Aug. 3, 2024 Schoodic Institute | Winter Harbor, Maine Master the fundamentals of biomimicry as you explore the forests, wetlands and rocky headlands of Acadia National Park during the peak of a beautiful northern summer. Learn how the…
Texas high schoolers made the raw material for cement and concrete aggregate out of carbon dioxide…
The Center for Learning with Nature (LWN) is partnering with the Glacier Institute to offer a biomimicry workshop this summer, led by LWN’s senior educator, Megan Schuknecht, along with Adelheid Fischer. The Wild Ideas workshop is a 4-day introduction to the basics of looking to nature for design inspiration. In this…
Director Sam Stier was invited by the Guam Department of Education to deliver the keynote address to a teacher conference in Guam on using bioinspiration with place-based education. Sixty teachers from across the island and the island of Kosrae (Federated States of Micronesia) attended the January conference. As part of…
The Center for Learning with Nature has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore ways of integrating bioinspired innovation into undergraduate biology education. Despite being based on the living world, bioinspired innovation is not typically covered in undergraduate biology. This project will focus especially on integrating…
The Center for Learning with Nature has again been invited by the European Union to help integrate biomimicry into its educational systems. The Center for Learning with Nature will work with several education organizations in five different European countries (The Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and England) to help train…
A 3-year project begun in 2018 — to begin integrating biologically-inspired STEM education into the European Union — is now beginning to come to fruition. Funded by the EU, The Center for Learning with Nature has been working with five non-profit educational organizations from five different countries (the United Kingdom,…
Director Sam Stier again helped lead BioFest, an annual event for several hundred middle school students in the mid-Michigan region. During the two-day outdoor event, students learn how to use the bio-inspired design process and go on to develop their own original design concepts. This year, the 6th annual BioFest…
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