Keynote Address: Danny Forster of "Build it Bigger," Discovery Education

Various FETC chair people and Orange County, Florida officials welcomed us to FETC. This conference is held every year at the Orange County Convention Center and has grown from a local Florida conference to a conference of international reputation (attendees came from all 50 states and 41 countries outside the USA).  As the Commissioner of Orange County said, "Innovation radiates at FETC!"

Danny Forster of "Build It Bigger" gave an excellent keynote address about getting beyond facts and into concepts, going beneath the project and into the context. He studied art and architecture in college, and superbly blended storytelling with questioning - modeling creative thinking. He advocates STEM, technology, critical thinking and reasoning as necessary skills for our students.

I hope to watch some episodes of Build It Bigger after hearing him speak. He went beyond the facts of architecture and into the "why" of art and design. Watching him talk about bridges, buildings, and columns had me captivated, learning science, math and history while fully engaged in his tales.