Students in VR Team Guest Speakers at Girls S.T.E.A.M. Institute Webinar

Girls S.T.E.A.M. Institute celebrates Women’s History Month and Women in S.T.E.A.M. March 25h with the Founder and Director of Students in VR, Dr. Angelina Dayton, with the Educators in VR Production Manager, Donna McTaggart, on the topic of “Virtual Reality: Experience Fun & Adventure.” The webinar is free and open to the public, hosted March 25th online for one-hour at 4PM PST / 7PM EST / Midnight UK / 8AM Hong Kong.

To participate, email info@girlsteaminstitute.org to register and receive an invite to the free, live online webinar.

Dr. Angelina Dayton works with students to produce Students in VR weekly workshops and annual conferences, and develops leadership training and mentorship programs. She is also the Senior Virtual Reality Research Scientist at the Virtual World Society, a virtual reality researcher, user experience designer, speaker, consultant, and trainer. She is also an anthropologist exploring emerging technology into highlight structured, low-resourced environments.

Donna McTaggart directs and produces many of the Educators in VR events including our client VR events and conferences over the past two years, including all Students in VR meetups and conferences. She helps produce events and activities with the Indigenous Peoples in XR (IPXR) group that Educators in VR helped found. She is also the founder and producer of the #LiveLoved bible studies and social events in AltspaceVR, and founder of Let’s Meet in VR, a social event and production company specializing in VR events.

Educators in VR’s Students in VR program develops leaders through apprenticeships in emerging technologies to learners of all ages. Students in VR is an organization that recognizes that the lines between students and teachers is blurring, and provide information and opportunities to develop skills regarding how to engage with emerging technologies in healthy ways, exploring how to find quality content on safe platforms and how to create and share helpful content with others through curated and shared content, workshops, and conferences in virtual reality and beyond.

Students in VR hosts a weekly meetup with experts and leaders in immersive technology and open discussions on key issues and topics in AltspaceVR, with adventures on other VR platforms as well. For a list of upcoming events, check out the Educators in VR AltspaceVR Events Schedule and the Students in VR site and Twitter.