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Membership Newsletter May 2012

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Creative Oklahoma Newsletter May 2012
Sir Ken Robinson and Peter Diamandis

Oklahoma Creativity Forum 2012 Plenary Speakers Announced

Keynote speakers include internationally recognized creativity and education leader and author, Sir Ken Robinson, and Chairman and CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis.

“The forum is a rare opportunity to learn from some of the world’s foremost innovative leaders,” said Susan McCalmont, president of Creative Oklahoma. “The Oklahoma Creativity Forum 2012 will bring internationally renowned speakers together with Oklahoma practitioners for a dynamic conversation about how to become a more creative individual and make your school, workplace, or community a thriving environment for ideas and innovation.” Read more…
ArtScience Prize Oklahoma 2

OKC High School Students Chosen to Attend Innovation Workshop at the University of Central Oklahoma

Three teams of Oklahoma City high school students will participate in the Oklahoma ArtScience Innovation Workshop from June 4-8 at the Center for Transformative Learning at the University of Central Oklahoma. The students earned the opportunity through participation in the Oklahoma ArtScience Prize, a project of Creative Oklahoma.

Learn more about the teams and their projects here.
Creative Oklahoma Membership

Become a Creative Oklahoma Member!

It’s time to show your Oklahoma Creativity and help us establish Oklahoma as a world-renowned center of creativity and innovation in education, commerce and culture.
Benefits include a discount to the Oklahoma Creativity Forum 2012, special member-only monthly newsletters with content from our Experts in Residence and special guest contributors, networking opportunities, access to past forum and webinar video (now available only to members) and more.
Membership and Oklahoma Creativity Forum 2012 registration will be available July 1, 2012.

Graduate student, Flora Cho, joins Creative Oklahoma for the summer

Flora Hyunjung Cho has joined the Creative Oklahoma team as an intern for the summer of 2012. She is a M. Ed. student in interdisciplinary studies in Educational Administration and Early Childhood Education at Idaho State University. Cho is originally from Ulsan, South Korea and researches creativity in education around the globe with the goal to make a difference in education as an education consultant in a world organization.

Cho is helping to develop the Oklahoma Innovation Index that will create a public measurement of the number of opportunities for creative work in schools. Read more…

Creative Oklahoma Board Updates

 

Dr. Don Betz was inaugurated as the 20th president of the University of Central Oklahoma on April 20, 2012. Becoming Central’s 20th president in August 2011 meant a special homecoming for President Betz, who served as Central’s provost and vice president of Academic Affairs from 1999-2005. Returning to Central was coming back to a university where he had developed several initiatives and programs that had helped transform Central into its stature today as one of the leading metropolitan universities in the nation. Read more here…

Ken Stoner made a trip to Chiang Mai, Thailand and Doha, Qatar in April 2012 to represent Creative Oklahoma and TEDx. Stoner was chosen as one of the top 100 TEDx Leaders/Licensees from around the world to attend the TEDxSummit. “The TED community is the most innovating and creative in the world and the fact that we get to play in that sandbox, elbow to elbow with the other curious and passionate leaders, is a testament to the momentum that we’ve created in our state in a relatively short time,” said Stoner. 
His visit to Chiang Mai, Thailand was to attend TEDxThapae and meet with the leaders of TEDxThapae, who are also some of the same leaders of Chiang Mai Creative City. Stoner had an informational visit to explore a future relationship and potential collaboration on creativity with Chiang Mai.

 

Links

View the National Creativity Network webinar with Jonah Lehrer

Increase the Odds of Creativity

Oklahoma ArtScience Prize Students Chosen to Attend Paris Innovation Workshop

New Survey Shows Small Businesses Thriving in Oklahoma

KFOR “Great State” with OK ArtScience Prize

Small Oklahoma town leverages NEA funds to install sculpture by world-renowned artist

Who Says Creativity Can’t Be Learned?

InCA Films senior producer moved by Chickasaw’s successful ‘reinvention’

Oklahoma Guy Creates Best iPhone Audio App That Gives Time Back

How Creativity Works in Cities with Jonah Lehrer

How to Make Your Team More Creative

A Glimpse At A Workplace Of The Future: Valve

Where does that creative spark come from?

Is Your Job Killing Your Creativity?

OU Professors use unique classroom methods, exercises to boost creativity

 

Events

Generation Next: Chapter 1

April 30 – July 1

Oklahoma State Capitol, OKC

Harrah Live 2010

Concert Series

May – October

Harrah, OK

June 1

Skirvin Hilton Hotel, OKC

June 2
Paseo Arts District, OKC
June 5
Norman Chamber of Commerce

Red Earth Native American Cultural Festival

June 8-10

OKC, OK

Oklahoma Venture Forum

June 13

OKC, OK

World Premiere: The Life Symphony

June 16 – 17

Bartlesville and OKC, OK

National Creativity Network Webinar with Robert Sternberg

June 21

Online

TechJoy Robotics Academy

After-school applied technology camps

June – July

OKC, OK

 

 

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