Creativity Forum 2012
Featuring Tina Seelig
InGenius: Levers for Unlocking Creativity
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
The Ritz Carlton Hotel
This sold-out event was a tremendous success, raising funds to support our educational programs, the launch of the Center for Childhood Creativity, our exhibitions, and outreach to under-served communities.
InGenius: Levers for Unlocking Creativity
What tools can you use to increase your own creativity?
How can you enhance innovation of your teams and organizations?
And, what can you do to stimulate creative problem solving in your families and classrooms?
In her interactive talk, Dr. Tina Seelig discussed the Innovation Engine - a new model that illustrates how internal and external factors work together to enhance creativity. Learn more about the Innovation Engine on her blog Creativity Rulz. Her new book inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity
About Creativity Forum
The Bay Area Discovery Museum’s Creativity Forum advances the importance of cultivating creativity in children, and exemplifies how the Bay Area Discovery Museum is a critical resource for preparing children for the challenges of the 21st century. Previous event speakers have included authors Jonah Lehrer and Daniel Pink, Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak, and creativity in education leader Sir Ken Robinson. Funds raised from this event support the Museum’s educational programs and exhibitions and outreach to communities where the need for creative development is most acute.
About Tina Seelig
Tina Seelig is the Executive Director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), the entrepreneurship center at Stanford University's School of Engineering. STVP is dedicated to accelerating high-technology entrepreneurship education and creating scholarly research on technology-based firms. STVP provides students from all majors with the entrepreneurial skills needed to use innovations to solve major world problems.
Tina teaches courses on creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the department of Management Science and Engineering, and within the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford. Tina was awarded the 2009 Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering, recognizing her as a national leader in engineering education. She also received the 2008 National Olympus Innovation Award, and the 2005 Stanford Tau Beta Pi Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. In 2004, STVP was named the NASDAQ Entrepreneurship Center of the Year.
Tina earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University Medical School in 1985 where she studied Neuroscience. She has worked as a management consultant for Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, as a multimedia producer at Compaq Computer Corporation, and was the founder a multimedia company called BookBrowser.
Tina has also written 15 popular science books and educational games. Her books include The Epicurean Laboratory and Incredible Edible Science, published by Scientific American; and a series of twelve games called Games for Your Brain, published by Chronicle Books. Her newest book, published by HarperCollins in 2009, is titled What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World.
Special thanks to our Discovery Museum Forum Host Committee
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Grace and James Dignan
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Jacqueline and Christian Erdman
Suzanne and Elliott Felson
Elizabeth and Richard Fullerton
Cynthia and John Gunn
Gwen Hinze and Ernest Chow
Fumiko and David Hoeft
Keiko and Gerald Horkan
Rebecca and Alfred Lin
Kristin and David MacKnight
Leigh and Bill Matthes
Marie and William McGlashan
Ravi and Christy Mohan
Eve Niquette and Charles Pohl
Angela Nomellini and Kenneth Olivier
Eva and Bill Price
Katie and James Rothschild
Diana and Steven Strandberg
Carrie Wheeler and Kit Codik
Julia Wong and Roger Kuo
Lareina Yee and Humberto Galleno
Jennifer Yen and Ken Horne
Special thanks to our corporate sponsors
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