The STEAM Works
inside MIRNOVA inside TETRAD
Cultivating Science, Maths and the Arts to serve and sustain Lives and our Society

An approach that works with communities, schools, families, students
to make STEM and the Arts more interesting, more exciting, more meaningful

Orchestrating and Conducting a Symphony of the Now-and-Next Generations
To Strengthen Us All

[1]Our society depends upon our Up-and-Coming Next Generations. We hope this is obvious, of course! Now is the Time for serious and invigorating efforts to be directed to educating our present and upcoming generations in many critical areas including how we can employ our sciences, technologies, engineering, mathematics, and also our arts and humanities, in very focused and integrative ways, for the benefits of who and what we are as People, and for the sustainability of Life Itself.

          Please Review the "CQ" and the "CADUN" - the 4 and 8 Criticalities - that are listed down below.

[2] We aim to employ STEM and the Arts and Humanities, including Philosophy, and personal + social practices that encourage, empower and sustain awareness, critical thinking, collaboration, cooperation and other core virtues and practices of mind and body, in order to cultivate and refine People to work together creatively and pragmatically towards our important needs of Today and Tomorrow.

[3] Who produces and leads the STEAMworks? We are scientists, technologists, artists, doctors, nurses, business and financial people. (Read about some of us here.) We want to work with schools of all types and serving all ages, in some very creative ways:

• Special events, sessions, classes - some are one-time and some comprise multi-part series, on topics that We, Together, You with Us, decide are excellent desirable offerings for youth and students of all ages

• Integrating games - MMORPG types especially, into the Stream of Education and Learning. Working with what the Kids often love and thrive upon - Minecraft and Roblox included

• Plays! Yes, live dramatic performances with a "STEAM" flair! We have a few particulars in mind, and one that is underway and in fact ready, is called, Look Up! Look Up!

It's the "counterpoint" to the famous 2021 film, Don't Look Up, produced and directed by Adam McKay and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett, Meryl Streep and may other fine actors and actresses.

Yes, it's about an asteroid and an avoidable collision with Earth and how to prevent the catastrophic consequences...

Yes, it involves kids of all ages making the artwork, the props, the videos, everything, and also speaking, live, on stage.

Let's Do It! Let's LOOK UP! for once and for the good of all!

[4] Read about a few of the things we have done quite recently:

• A STEM presentation-class for 4th and 5th grade students in USA

• A STEM presentation-class for high-school students in USA

• STEAM resources and experiences for youth and families of all ages and types

• MORE about people and families interacting and building, rebuilding, creating, recreating Together

[5] Talk with us about the things we have done, are planning, and can do with your engagement and assistance:

• Diversity and Unity in the ARTS and HUMANITIES (Ask us about the ArsBio Project as it was in the 2000s and how we are evolving it and improving it now in the 2020s! Imagine what is in common between ancient African art, nanoscale images of molecules, Hubble and Webb Space Telescope images, trees and flowers, young children's drawings, and Gothic cathedral stained glass windows?!?!)

• Cool New Ways to Learn and Be Excited about: Science, Mathematics, Philosophy, History, Archaeology, the Fine Arts! (Yes! Archaeology is Cool and Kids love it and learn a lot about Who We All Are from the way we conduct things!)

• FAKE vs. REAL in the media, in the mainstream news, in the massive "minefield" of social media on the internet and everywhere. This is extremely important in the present times because of the Influence upon our Youth and All of us, but especially our children.

• Combatting and Overcoming the HATES in our Lives - Hatred, Abuse and Bullying, Trafficking, Enslavement and "Kontrol", Subjugation. Serious hard stuff but it's in our lives. This takes us into more youth-oriented and even youth-created themes, like "Cyber Robin and the Hood" - stories and scripts about an Amazing Gang of Teens... Imagine what Robin and her friends are doing to fight "The Hydra" and their crimes including human trafficking of young people! Creative Fiction Paves the Way for Learning Facts and Changing Future Behaviors from Sad and Lost to Happy and Fulfilling.

Read, Please, and Be Thoughtful about these things - they are not abstractions but part of our world future.

CQ - the 4 Critical Quarters of Our World's Future.
These are the four critical global problems we must solve in order to continue as a civilized species.

• 1. Environment and Climate
• 2. Overpopulation
• 3. Asteroids and EMP
• 4. Critical infrastructure dysfunctions

CADUN - Critical Areas of Developmental Urgent Need.
These span 4 main domains:

• 1. Viral and bacterial Pandemics - especially new zoonotic types
• 2. Mega-storms (super-hurricanes and tornadoes and highly nonlinear and extremely dynamic fronts)
• 3. EMP (electromagnetic pulse events - solar source or human-made)
• 4. Coastal flooding with rising sea levels, and changes within our continents bringing floods and droughts
• 5. Infectious diseases generated by zoonotic changes (migration and mutation), permafrost changes, extraterrestrial origins
• 6. Energy depletion and the immediate needs for substantive, large-scale, non-fossil-fuel energy sources
• 7. Overpopulation by humans and also livestock animals produced for meat foods
• 8. Asteroid impacts - these must and can be addressed and "WE CAN" is the answer to "Don't Look Up"...

• (These are genuine bona fide concerns, and we have the experts on our teams.

Please Ask Yourselves:
What good is all the science, tech, enginering, maths, art, literature, philosophy for the Future - IF WE ARE GONE AS A SPECIES or GONE as what we knew and know as Human Civilization?

ANSWER: Not any real good for our world, not at all, if we are not here to Live it and propagate these things we call "culture" and civilization".

Work with us. Bring us to your schools, colleges, universities, to your media, your networks, your circles of communication. Team up with us to Make Change that We Can All Live with - and here, we mean, LIVE by and with and through!

You know that our children are feeling and sensing everything around them, incuding the uncertainties, the stresses. There's No hiding things from children! They Deserve to learn how what they can do with their Minds in the future - in elementary school, in high school, in university and thereafter - CAN MAKE A HEALTHY DIFFERENCE!

          

TETRAD Institute of Complex System Dynamics is a private, not-for-profit, international research organization dedicated to advancement of culture through science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. The Institute comprises a faculty of research scientists and specialists in multiple and interdisciplinary fields working as a globally distributed network community. Faculty, fellows, mentors and teachers are recognized experts in their respective fields, within academia, industry, and throughout the global community. Projects are conducted in collaboration with institutions and companies in both the public and private sectors. Principal centers of activity are based in the United States of America and the European Union. Contact: +1 (231) 492-8301 (voice/text/Telegram/Viber/WhatsApp), +1 (505) 926-1399 (messages)      contact@tdyn.org, martinjoseph (at) tdyn.org, martin.dudziak@gmail.com, martan.khan@gmail.com Copyright © 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022 TETRAD Institute of Complex System Dynamics