Tim Needles is an artist, educator, performer, and creator of STEAM Energy: Infusing Artwork Into Your STEM Curriculum. He’s a TEDx Discuss speaker, a know-how integration specialist, and teaches artwork, movie, and rising media at Smithtown Faculty District and 5 Cities School. His work has been featured on NPR, within the New York Occasions, Columbus Museum of Artwork, Norman Rockwell Museum, Alexandria Museum of Artwork, Katonah Museum of Artwork, and Cape Cod Museum of Artwork.
He’s the recipient of ISTE’s Expertise in Motion Award and Creativity Award, NAEA’s Jap Area Artwork Educator Award & ArtEdTech Excellent Instructing Award, and The Rauschenberg Energy of Artwork Award. He’s additionally a board member of NYSCATE and NYSATA, a DEN STAR, Nationwide Geographic Licensed Trainer, Kami Hero, Formative Champion, PBS Digital Innovator, a NASA Photo voltaic System Ambassador, an ISTE Neighborhood chief, NAEA ArtEdTech curiosity Group chair, a instructor chief within the CAN Related Arts Community PLC, and an Adobe Inventive Educator Innovator. He’s lively on social media at @timneedles.