Upcoming Event: San Jose Area Writing Project Saturday Salon
Beyond Robots: Modern technology in science fiction
Nicole Marie is excited to join an amazing group of authors for the San Jose Area Writing Project’s Teen Novel Program Salon Series.
On November 15, teen writers can join Nicole Marie for an interactive workshop exploring the challenges of navigating an increasingly tech-filled world. Through choose-your-own-adventure discussions and drafting exercises, writers will ask themselves and their characters to make tough choices about befriending androids, moving to virtual worlds, allowing tech companies access to their brains, and other sci-fi conundrums that are rapidly colliding with reality.
Learn more and register at www.sjawp.org/teen-writers-salon
Past Events: Silicon Valley Reads
We were thrilled to host three workshops for teens in San Jose this March through Silicon Valley Reads. Thank you to everyone who attended! Interested in holding a similar program? Let us know!
Designing Your School of the Future:
In Nicole's After Intelligence series, Cognation Academy is a state-of-the-art school of the future with a range of unique buildings, including one that appears to float in the treetops, another that is nearly invisible, and yet another that can be submerged beneath the campus lake. Based on this work, teens will be invited to imagine their dream school or classroom of the future and will have the opportunity to visualize those creations using AI tools. Teens will also discuss the ethical challenges inherent in these emerging tools and consider responsible ways to use them as part of the creative process.
Your Android Friend:
This discussion-focused program invites teens to discuss the potential of interacting with androids. Influenced by Nicole's After Intelligence series where a student befriends an android (and where the introduction of androids disrupts the school community), Nicole will encourage teens to think about where the line is between machine and human.
If you had the chance to learn alongside androids, would you want to? How would you introduce your android friend to other humans? What role would school leaders, teachers, and students play in integrating androids into the community?
