San Diego Incubator for Innovation Project Prototypes: Aqua Diao Butterfly Alive Project DIY EcoLab En Plein Aire App Kate’s Place The Dewers The Epic Water Game Trash to Paradise Waterstock Balboa Park Online Collaborative Coronado School of the Arts:  Water Dances DNA of Creativity:  Sea Changes Dramatic Results:  BuildTopia Eco Verse Euphoria Brass Band Feaster STEAM Charter, Chula Vista:  Ping pong Ball Pyramid, Chemistry of Bounce, Programming Robots Fleet Science Center:  Chromatography Kid*Spark, powered by Rokenbok: Community Build and STEM-Maker Challenge MassMind:  Arduino Exploration TheNAT / San Diego Natural History Museum:  Wild Beanie Safari & Eye on Nature San Diego Air & Space Museum: Paper Rockets SDSU Center for Research in Mathematics & Science Education (CRMSE):  InforMath— 3D Sketches Syntrogi Labs: Glass Brain and EEGOcean ThoughtSTEM:  Game-based Computer Coding UCSD Physics / Beach Physics:  Galaxy Garden UCSD Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center Gamelan Project: Synchronized ensemble music, data visualization, and attention UCSD Institute for Neural Computation:  Games controlled by eye movement (Neuro gaming) UCSD Machine Perception Lab:  RUBI Social Robots USD Mathematics:  Mathegami, Learning Mathematics through Origami YMCA Youth & Family Services:  Lego...

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January 25, 2014 Program 10:00 – 11:00 am   —   The Big Picture   Kaplan Theater An overview of water ecology, policy, infrastructure, treatment, technological change, and water use followed by Q & A Nan Renner, Art of Science Learning Incubator for Innovation Exequiel Ezcurra, University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, UCMEXUS Riverside Cary Lowe, San Diego Water Policy Implementation Task Force Ken Weinberg, San Diego County Water Authority Kevin Hardy, Encina Wastewater Treatment Dawn Guendert, GHD Glen Schmidt, Schmidt Design Group   11:00 am – 2:00 pm   —   All About Water  Atrium Beach Physics and the Physics of Water  —  Adam Burgasser Jukebox Radio, Water Moving Machines  —  Mark Dzula Art of Science Learning, Balboa Park Cultural Partnership  —  Lisa Silagyi Explore the Pueblo Watershed  —  Farnaz Farhang, Phil Roullard, Chrislyn Snow, Linda Hollingsworth   Water: A California Story Biomimicry San Diego  —  Jacques Chirazi, Tamsin Wooley-Barker, Nan Woodman WILDCOAST  —  Paloma Aguirre San Dieguito River Park  —  Shawna Anderson   Parker-French Learning Lab  San Diego County Water Authority, eGuide to a WaterSmart Lifestyle  —  Kelly Mooney Cloud Formation Demos & Atmospheric Chemistry, CAICE, UCSD  ­—  Greg Medders USGS California Water Science Center, Regional Groundwater Resources  —  Wes Danskin City of San Diego Water Purification & Potable ReUse  —  Jeffery Pasek H2O Futures, Plant-based Innovations  —  Ned Daugherty AlterTerra, Tijuana River Watershed  —  Oscar Romo Think Blue, City of San Diego Stormwater  —  Lana Findlay H2OME, Graywater, Rainwater Catchment  —  Brook Sarson San Diego County Watershed Protection Program — Marsha Cook The Water Conservation Garden, Waterwise Landscaping  —  Sue Bell, Connie Cline   11:15 – 12:30 pm    —   Deeper Conversations     Smargon Learning Lab Policy — Cary Lowe, Water Policy Implementation Task Force; Cathy Pieroni, Integrated Regional Water Management; Ken Weinberg, San Diego County Water Authority Technology — Jared Criscuolo, Rising Tide Partners; Dawn Guendert, GHD; Kevin Hardy, Encina Wastewater Treatment Land Use & Planning — Nancy Casady, State Board of Food and Agriculture; Bill Harris, Think Blue, City of San Diego Stormwater; Mary Lydon, Urban Land...

Hosted by the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership and the Balboa Park Learning Institute. Partners: Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, UCSD Association of Women in Science Biomimicry San Diego Cal State San Marcos California Center for Sustainable Energy CalIT2 / Qualcomm Institute Clairemont Community of Schools Comisión Estatal de Servicios Públicos de Tijuana CONNECT El Trompo, Children’s Interactive Museum, Tijuana Elementary Institute of Science FabLab Friends of Balboa Park Girl Scouts IDEA District Kumeyaay.com Maker Faire San Diego Maritime Alliance Old Globe Theatre Proyecto Fronterizo, Tijuana Reuben H. Fleet Science Center San Diego Air & Space Museum San Diego County Office of Education San Diego County Water Authority San Diego Museum of Art San Diego Natural History Museum San Diego Unified School District San Diego Youth Symphony SDSU Center for Research in Math & Science Education SDSU School of Sciences STEAM Connect Tijuana Innovadora UCSD Sixth College US Department of State World Resources SIM Center   San Diego Incubator Participants’ Organizations To...

Designed to create flows of inspiration and ideas between the incubator and the larger community, our public events integrate with our innovation process. IDENTIFY OPPORTUNITIES FOR WATER INNOVATIONS Explore Pueblo Watershed December 14, Saturday, 8:30 am – 2 pm Through direct observation and various sensing technologies, teams will explore a watershed to address the question: How does this urban watershed contribute to the well-being of its residents? Data collection and visualization will help us see patterns, relationships, and opportunities for innovation. GENERATE IDEAS WATER: In Search of Solutions January 25, 2014, Saturday, 10 am – 2 pm A unique assembling of people and organizations will share their water-related projects to create a learning landscape for innovation fellows and community members to explore. Demonstrations, hands-on activities, enlightening presentations, and round-table discussions will offer rich content to expand, enrich, and challenge our ideas. SHARE & LEARN PLAY DAY for Educators! Thursday, July 24, 2014, 3:30 – 6:30 pm Balboa Park  •  San Diego Museum of Art  •  Plaza de Panama Educators and leaders in schools, universities, museums, learning centers… Move, make, and play — merging art, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics! Innovators in education will facilitate interactive mini-workshops … a Galaxy Garden, movement and physics, neuroscience and music, visual art and urban ecosystems, and more! NEW PRODUCT LAUNCH Innovation Launch October 2014 After rigorous testing and improvement, our ten innovation teams will be ready to meet the market, pitch to investors, and pilot their programs. A dynamic interactive evening event will culminate our creative collaborative efforts as innovation teams launch to the next step in their path to success. Stay tuned for more information about activities, locations, dates, and...

Incubator Workshops: Innovation Training for 100 Fellows From October 2013 through October 2014, 100 community members—scientists, engineers, artists, entrepreneurs, educators, students, public servants, and more—will learn and practice processes and skills of innovation: Opportunity Identification & Analysis Idea Generation, Enrichment & Selection New Product Development, Prototyping & Testing Market & Business Planning Creativity, Communication & Collaboration New Product Launch Within a series of workshops, our incubator community will explore opportunities for innovation related to regional water supply and demand. We will generate numerous project ideas. Innovation Fellows will vote for their preferred projects, a process that will determine the composition of teams and which projects advance to development. Through our year-long innovation program, we aim to build capacity for leadership and innovation, within and among individuals and organizations throughout the region. Public...