2019

December
- PNC Grow Up Great Grant Supports AFEL at ExCITe Center
  
  December 03, 2019
  
  Starting today through Friday, August 23rd, the SXSW EDU Panel Picker to live! Votes will be counted to determine which presentations will be selected for the 2020 conference.
  
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August
- The Best College Video Game in America Lives on at Drexel
  
  August 28, 2019
  
  A group of four students from Drexel University created a video game for a class project that was recently named the best college video game in the country.
  
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- Panel Picker for SXSW EDU 2020 includes ExCITe Center staff proposals
  
  August 05, 2019
  
  Starting today through Friday, August 23rd, the SXSW EDU Panel Picker to live! Votes will be counted to determine which presentations will be selected for the 2020 conference.
  
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June
- Full STEAM Ahead: The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation and Drexel Partner to Offer Pioneering Summer Camp in West Philadelphia
  
  June 12, 2019
  
  Now in its fourth year, the Young Dragons Summer STEAM program will feature six weeks of education activities focused on the creative intersections of science, technology, engineering arts, athletics and mathematics. The free day camp, offered through a partnership between The Malcolm Jenkins Foundation and Drexel University’s ExCITe Center and Lindy Center for Civic Engagement, is annually attended by 100 middle school students in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone neighborhood.
  
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May
- Video Games Created by Middle School Students to Be Played on LED Array of Cira Centre Skyscraper to Open New Park, Drexel Square
  
  May 23, 2019
  
  The creativity of local students will be on full display this summer as the 29-story LED array of Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre office building is once again converted into the world’s largest video game display. Students and teachers from K-12 schools across the Greater Philadelphia region have been working with experts in Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio to design and code new games for the building — those games will debut on the evening of June 10 as part of a celebration for the opening of the city’s newest green space, Drexel Square. The opening of Drexel Square park marks the first completed project of the Schuylkill Yards development, a 14-acre master-planned neighborhood in University City being developed by Brandywine Realty Trust on land owned by and in coordination with Drexel.
  
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March
- ExCITe Center Celebrates Its 75th T3 Event
  
  March 21, 2019
  
  On March 21, 2019, the ExCITe Center held the 75th edition of the monthly talk series: T3.
  
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- Spring 2019 Crit & Poster Presentation with Pennoni Honors College
  
  March 11, 2019
  
  On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, ExCITe Center Director Dr. Youngmoo Kim and Drexel University School of Education's Dr. Kareem Edouard presented the findings of their national report on education makerspace culture.
  
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- Making Culture report at SXSW EDU 2019
  
  March 06, 2019
  
  On Wednesday, March 6, 2019, ExCITe Center Director Dr. Youngmoo Kim and Drexel University School of Education's Dr. Kareem Edouard presented the findings of their national report on education makerspace culture.
  
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