Scott Stulen is an artist, dj, curator, and programmer of Open Field at the Walker Art Center. He has developed innovative on and off-line programming including Community Supported Art (CSA) in partnership with Springboard for the Arts, Drawing Club, Headphone Festival, Analog Tweets and the Internet Cat Video Festival.
Stulen is the project director of mnartists.org, an online art hub serving over 20,000 Midwest artists and director of the McKnight Artist Fellowship for Photographers.
Trailblazing education and game development visionary Lucien Vattel is at the forefront of a nationwide crusade to revolutionize learning in the classroom and beyond. As the CEO of the Los Angeles-based interactive curriculum creator and digital publisher GameDesk, Vattel is transforming the traditional school model into a hands-on, digitally-charged ecosystem for students to discover and nourish their greatest gifts, while embracing STEM skills through game-based learning. Founded to help at-risk students in low-income regions tap deeply into their intelligence and talents, GameDesk instills the value of learning through play, and empowers students to collaborate and be active producers of the content from which they learn. Building upon this methodology, Vattel founded PlayMaker, a next-generation, choose-your-own adventure middle school program designed to help teachers and students transcend the confines of textbooks and chalk boards. This is just the beginning of the GameDesk insurgence. Vattel recently secured the largest contribution in AT&T history to develop a national digital learning center and fully comprehensive online portal for educators.
During the last 15 years, Vattel has spearheaded a variety of educational projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Lockheed Martin, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Motorola, Sandia Labs, National Academies of Science, and others. Previously, Vattel co-founded and co-architected the undergraduate and master’s computer science programs in game development at the University of Southern California, where he served as faculty lecturer.
John Green is the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault in Our Stars. He is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of Will Grayson, Will Grayson. He was 2006 recipient of the Michael L. Printz Award, a 2009 Edgar Award winner, and has twice been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green’s books have been published in more than a dozen languages.
In 2007, Green and his brother Hank ceased textual communication and began to talk primarily through videoblogs posted to YouTube. The videos spawned a community of people called nerdfighters who fight for intellectualism and to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (Decreasing suck takes many forms: Nerdfighters have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to fight poverty in the developing world; they also planted thousands of trees around the world in May of 2010 to celebrate Hank’s 30th birthday.)
Although they have long since resumed textual communication, the brothers continue to upload two videos a week to their YouTube channel, Vlogbrothers. Their videos have been viewed more than 200 million times, and their channel is one of the most popular in the history of online video. Green has more than 1.2 million followers.
David Garner arrived in the U.S. five years ago from his previous post in the Netherlands to become Head of School at the International School of Indiana (ISI), an independent school that serves 600 students from pre-school through Grade 12 and is part of a worldwide network of schools sharing a similar mission.
Garner is a UK national with a French wife and two children who have been educated at schools in a number of different countries. He has worked in public and private institutions, from elementary through to higher education, in ten countries around the world and holds degrees in German and Russian, a UK postgraduate teaching certificate, a Masters in Applied Linguistics, and an MBA in Educational Leadership. He studied at the Free University of West Berlin, and spent a year teaching in higher education in the former Soviet Union under the Anglo-Soviet Cultural Exchange Agreement.
Garner is highly experienced in international education and in the programs of the International Baccalaureate Organization. He is the recipient of a fellowship in international education from the European Council of International Schools. He has been a member and leader of visiting teams accrediting international schools in Germany, El Salvador and Colombia.
Garner has a special interest in linguistics, and has presented workshops at international schools conferences on second language learners, bilingualism and questions of mother tongue maintenance. Before coming to ISI, he was Head of School at the International Secondary School of Eindhoven serving the international hi-tech community in the major research and development hub of the Netherlands. Prior to this he was Head of the Upper School at the British International School of Prague in the Czech Republic, providing foreign executives with the possibility to move to Prague with their families and contribute to the development of the free market economy after the collapse of the socialist system.
When not thinking about the future of students in the global economy Garner enjoys such age-inappropriate activities as snowboarding or playing the guitar, and is presently working hard on his bluegrass flatpicking style.
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