Summer Programs
Gaspare Lipari
Awarded
Distinguished Teacher
of the Year 2023
Greenwich Public Schools
A few highlights from previous years
My Journey to The Education Metaverse
When I was 8 years old, I got my first computer. It was a Texas Instruments TI99-4a desktop. I learned to code in Basic, and was hooked! From there, I got a Commodore 64, learned programming languages like Assembly, Basic, Fortran, & Turbo Pascal while in High School. Then I stopped.
But I didn't stop loving technology and computing. Now I share my love of technology and innovation with my students, hoping to inspire, motivate, and prepare young minds for what comes next.
Technology and Education
Could've. Would've. Should've. In order for an idea to come to fruition, risks need to be faced and the journey needs to begin. So, when I learned about the Greenwich Alliance for Education's grant awards, I did exhaustive research, ideas came to life and I filled out that first application. My vision became a reality and turned into something spectacular. Three grant awards and $115,000+ later and Unbound Innovations is a thriving growing program. It has been a challenging journey and I am excited about the direction it's headed.
So what's next, what's our goal, what are we doing...
Starting as an after-school enrichment program, Unbound Innovations has become a highly sought-after and desirable program at Western Middle School. In the last year, hundreds of middle school students have had the opportunity to experience this innovative approach to learning.
Unbound Innovation XR embeds the immersive tools of Virtual and Augmented Reality into many middle school academic and elective classes, offering a distraction-free multi-learning style approach to the topics being studied. The power of Virtual Reality to provide students with an environment rich in visuals, original audio, and interactivity creates a memorable experience where students are introduced variety of new ways to consume content and raise the level of learning. From reliving history as part of the crew of a bomber flying over Germany, learning a variety of languages through real-world experiences, producing music, building new content, gliding through space while making stops at every planet and satellite, performing dissections and other lab experiments, or taking tours of Anne Frank's hiding spots, students are being introduced to an immersive transformative education.
Tools of the Trade
From heavily loaded gaming PC's with wide-screen monitors to 360 Cameras and the latest Oculus and Vive headsets, students have access to some of the latest tools to create and explore an all-encompassing experience in XR.
HARDWARE
Meta 2 Headsets
Meta 3 Headsets
HTC Vive Pro 2 Headsets
Vive Flow Mobile VR Glasses
Vive Elite XR Headset
Oculus Rift Headsets
Oculus Go Headsets
Microsoft Hololens 2 AR Glasses (on loan)
Roblink Drone
Drone Competition Kit
Kai's Clan XR Robotics - Class Kit
Samsung Tablets & iPads
Complete BHaptics Suits
Dremmel 3D printers
Z-Space Spatial Laptops
HP Sprout Desktop
iBuyPower Fully-Loaded Gaming PCs
36" Widescreen Monitors
insta360 Cameras
insta360 Pro II Camera & Kit
Mavic Pro 2 Drone
Merge Cubes and Headsets
VR Gaming Matts
Various Accessories
PC Laptops for Coding & Game Design
Self-Built VR Charging Carts
APPLICATIONS
Victory XR
Engage XR
Spoke by Mozilla
Hatch XR
A-Frame
Minecraft VR
Roblox VR
ZOE XR
FrameVR
Icosa Gallery
EyeJack AR
Polycam AR
Halo AR
Kiri Engine
Artvive
280+ Meta Applications
75+ Steam VR Applications
PARTNERS & PLATFORMS
Yale Medical XR PEDS Lab
Unity Edu Game Design
PrismsVR Math
ManageXR MDM
Construct 3
Minecraft Edu
Roblox Studio
CoSpaces Edu
Merge Edu
Kai's Clan Robotics
Oculus/Meta
ZOE XR
Organizational support and awards
The Greenwich Alliance for Education | Greenwich Public Schools
Grant Awards in excess of $115,000+ | Yale Medical School's Play4Real XR Lab/XRPeds
APE Labs | Kai's Robotics | Skills21 AR Project Award - 2nd Place | Greenwich Library Innovation Lab