Innovator Symposium returns to Acera School

Can you grow steak in a lab? What do we know about the earliest stages of heart disease? How does satellite imagery teach us about food supply? These are the questions being asked in innovation labs right in our backyard.

On Thursday, October 19th, join Acera School for its annual Innovator Symposium, a free community event that brings these scientists and inventors – and their groundbreaking work – to the public for people of all ages to enjoy. Get tickets.

Meet local scientists, tech leaders, and inventors from AI Create, basys.ai, bluebird bio, BlueRock Therapeutics, General Radar Corp., Lantagne Group, MIT, Novartis, Tufts University & more. Attendees can also participate in a robotics mashup, tackle a design challenge using fiber optics, and more.

Presenters include:

• Rich Colvin, M.D., Ph.D, Chief Medical Officer, bluebird bio
• Nicki Jennings, Ph.D., Director of Translational Medicine, BlueRock Therapeutics
• Ned Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Director, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
• Leah Leier, Senior Software Engineer, General Radar Corp.
• Tami Lieberman, Ph.D., MIT Lieberman Labs
• Daniele Lantagne, Ph.D., Tufts Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Brent Minchew, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of GeoPhysics, MIT
• Mark Oliveras & Mirela Torello, Founders, AI Create
• Jie Sun, Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer, basys.ai

At this unique and interactive event, there are no assumptions about what content is “too old” or “too young” for attendees. It’s one of the many ways Acera makes science accessible to all ages and learning styles, and connects it to innovations happening in the real world.

Acera Education Innovation (AceraEI) partners with educators and school district leaders to cultivate a love of learning in students through choice, voice, agency, and hands-on STEAM learning in public schools. Founded in 2010, Acera School provides K-12 education for gifted students.