{"id":1713,"date":"2025-02-19T10:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2025\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=1713"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:02:57","slug":"families-learning-together-expressive-stem-inquiry-in-san-marcos-tx","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.delconference.org\/2026\/event\/families-learning-together-expressive-stem-inquiry-in-san-marcos-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Families Learning Together: Expressive STEM Inquiry in San Marcos, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For nearly a decade, Families Learning Together (FLT<\/a>) has explored the intersections of art, design, and creative computing through a community-based, intergenerational learning model. Anchored at the Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos and the San Marcos Public Library, FLT invites families, youth, elders, university students, and K-12 educators to engage in computational storymaking, dramatic robotics, and community science. Rooted in Expressive STEM, FLT bridges STEM disciplines, transdisciplinary literacies, and everyday life experiences to create purpose-driven, culturally sustaining learning.<\/p>\n

In this DEL In-Between session, I will describe how FLT positions digital and computational making as a socially embedded practice that strengthens community aspirations. Highlights include FLT\u2019s integration of multimodal STEM literacies into informal, intergenerational learning; the family playshop format, where everyone teaches and everyone learns; and the community design playground, where participants prototype activity sequences and develop facilitation skills. By rejecting siloed expertise and gatekeeping, FLT is building scalable, open-access learning networks that fuel interdisciplinary inquiry, problem-finding, and innovation.<\/p>\n