HHAI was honored to be chosen for a record breaking 8th consecutive time to present at ISTE, the world’s largest tech education conference attended by over 16,000 people!
Three HHAI students presented at the conference! Below is a description of this exciting experience from 6th grader Irisu and his father Brett.
“Donned in HHAI apparel to proudly represent our school and community, the students gleefully assisted Mr. Voskoboynik with his Model Classroom presentation on Unleashing Creativity: Animating and Coding AI-Generated Avatars for Interactive School Projects by helping to guide a full crowd of attending adult educators at the Innovation Arcade. With iPads and laptops in hand, they all shared their knowledge, experience, and use of cutting-edge tech they received from their HHAI classrooms. One of the highlights of the presentation was our award-winning Generation2Generation collaborative project with the Gvanim school in Western Galilee. Israeli students created their own 3D avatar, sent them to us, and we animated and programmed them together with HHAI students’ avatars!
Later, the student presenters did their poster-session booth, and informed visitors of all the tech they had learned about when progressing through this school year ancestry project. For example, creating avatars, injecting environments, utilizing animation – all with coding, programming, and AI to generate ‘life’ in their creations (including the addition of voice animation, colorization, and even interactive elements), all brought, both present and past ancestors to the stage for use in their projects.
In addition to presenting, we enjoyed our own exploration, allowing discovery of an environment of advanced technology creating wonders as exciting and dazzling as sci-fi movies! A playground of gaming, we got to try drone soccer, various VR labs, and met fellow colleagues demonstrating personal projects. Mr. Voskoboynik constantly introduced us to his colleagues and contacts from throughout the tech-education world.”
Kol Hakavod to our students for presenting their STEM projects on the international stage!