Rex Beaber Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Helping kids be creative and turn their ideas into reality.

Developing pathways for new scientific minds through creation of, and leading, Professional Development for BrainPOP Science.

Lead district-level training sessions for Amplify-Science for teachers and administrators ranging from Pre-K through 8th grade, in groups of 10 to 40+ educators. Using Zoom, instructed three 120-minute sessions per cohort to support the Los Angeles Unified School District-wide adoption of Amplify-Science reaching over 400 participants.

Fostering imagination, creativity, design thinking, problem-based, and project-based learning school-wide. Including expanding the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) program, collaborating with teachers and students, building the robotics and coding programs, and forwarding the growth of mindfulness and yoga in the classroom.

Los Angeles, California

Teaching Pre-K through 5th grade students science, design thinking, computational thinking, and more using both high and low tech tools.

Teach coding through Scratch and Lego Robotics to 1st-8th grade students during a full-day three-week summer camp.

Write curriculum, develop training process, and support the production leads nationally for all five Breathe for Change 200-hour yoga certification trainings in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Denver, and Austin. Directly supporting a team of 10+ production personnel who are supporting 50+ trainers and 350+ educators as they embark on their journey to become wellness experts and support the social-emotional learning of their students.

Support the Production and Lead Trainer teams during all aspects of the Breathe for Change 200-hour yoga certification process in San Francisco. Collaborating with a team of 12 trainers to facilitate, support, and mentor 75+ educators as they embark on their journey to become wellness experts and support the social-emotional learning of their students.

Managed all aspects of production for the Breathe for Change 16-day 200 hour yoga certification programs for ~70 educators in Tampa, FL and ~90 educators in Chicago, IL. Including, but not limited to managing site relationships, equipment set-up & tear-down, tracking certification requirements, and supply needs for all workshops.

Los Angeles, California

Transforming the High School Computer Science program to incorporate a course where students learn computational thinking and computational literacy skills by making games, apps, websites, and more. As well as developing a student-driven digital design lab where participants form interdisciplinary teams to operate in a Scrum style Agile development space to take on the roles of artist, ui/ux designer, producer, developer, and creative designer for prototype and release-ready digital products to impact the world.

Managing the creation of the Middle School’s Makerspace including space design, purchasing, curriculum development, and instruction both in-school and afterschool. Emphasis is on integration of pedagogy drawing from game-based learning, play-based learning, interest driven learning, project-based learning, constructionism, and constructivism. Curriculum are designed to integrate use of tool such as laser cutters, 3D printers, book binders, VR headsets, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and hands-on building resulting in students producing artifacts that are meaningful to them.

Greater Los Angeles Area

One on one tutoring for students twice at 1-2 hours per session. Special care is taken to teach students through connecting with their personal interests to both help them succeed in their external assessments and their ability to effectively utilize these skills in everyday life.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Fostering lasting relationships with everyone interested in changing the face of education whether corporate, non-profit, school districts, schools, teachers, parents or students around GameDesk's central goal: empowering educators and students to take charge of learning cognitively and interpersonally by giving them the tools to mod the classroom using games, play, simulation, and making.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Helping build the Playful Learning teacher network, rebranding of the GLS Educator Symposium to the Playful Learning Summit, and fostering collaboration nation wide around games and learning.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Teaching undergraduate students how to write thesis-driven research papers using video game play and community interaction as the data to be studied. Fostering critical engagement and discussion surrounding hot-button topics, e.g. video games and violence.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Creating the curriculum, planning field trips, and running the 3-Week Aviation,Rocketry, and Space Exploration Middle School Summer Workshop for the PEOPLE Program. The approach was deeply rooted in making abstract science concepts tangible to middle school students through connecting them to things they are interested in, e.g. pop culture movies such as Star Trek and The Avengers, video games like Portal and Angry Birds, and hands-on activities making paper and model rockets.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Teaching undergraduate students how to write thesis-driven research papers using video game play and community interaction as the data to be studied. Fostering critical engagement and discussion surrounding hot-button topics, e.g. video games and violence.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Developed the IRB and consulted on IRB requirements for the Sparks of Discovery outreach experiences. Sparks of Discovery is an outreach curriculum at the Morgridge Institute for Research focusing on educating K-12 students on cutting-edge technologies such as 3D Printing and rapid prototyping, epigenetics, and nanotechnology.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

At Filament Games I mapped all existing educational game titles that had been developed in-house to the newly minted Next Generation Science Standards, identified which had been fully addressed in the game, which could be addressed with curricular scaffolds, and which standards were not addressed through Filament's current educational suite. This directly informed the target subject matter of future game development at the studio. Additionally, I assisted in developing, maintaining, and communicating with a network of teachers for play tests of educational games.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Develop, schedule and lead numerous science outreach activities including drop-in programs, summer camps, school field trips, and girl/boy scout badge workshops. Emphasis on K-6th engagement interweaving core science standards into play and game based activities.

Focus on increasing space science awareness of Madison area youth of all ages. Integral work with the Space Gigs video series directed at informing and intriguing upper elementary and middle school students to space science careers in Madison. Created a boxed kit collection called Astronomy-in-a-Box for UW astronomy students to use doing outreach.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Developed lesson plans for, and instructed an hour long science afterschool class for 3-5th grade students. Performed exciting shows highlighting interesting scientific phenomena to groups of 50-100 kids of all ages and family members.

Astrophysics research focusing on mapping and modeling optical emission line data of ionized gaseous nebulae.

Created and edited scientific reports, regarding pharmaceutical testing to government (cGMP and GLP) guidelines, for distribution to clients.

Performed extensive analysis on the patentability of incoming patent applications and wrote technical reports to communicate requirements of future patentability

Madison, Wi

Astrophysics research focusing on mapping and modeling optical emission line data of ionized gaseous nebulae.

Work Towards M.S., Digital Media And Technology Education

Bs, Physics, Astronomy-Physics

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