Name
Breakout Sessions: Civics Innovators Competition (Independence Visitors Center)
Date & Time
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Speakers
Casey Spinks, University of Texas - Austin
Nicole Ozer, University of California Law - San Francisco
Michael Blauw, Center for Civic Education
Ben Boyce, Hamilton School, University of Florida
Nicole Ozer, University of California Law - San Francisco
Michael Blauw, Center for Civic Education
Ben Boyce, Hamilton School, University of Florida
Description
This Civics Innovators Competition breakout will feature the presentations below. Presenters will have 13 minutes to pitch an innovative civics project and answer audience questions. Audience members will vote at the end of the session and the winner will be presented with a $10,000 prize at the closing lunch!
- Collegiate We the People: An Experiential Civic Learning Competition in Higher Education by Michael Blauw and Benjamin Boyce
- The Open Academy by Ioannis Evrigenis
- Learning About Our Constitution - Classroom to Community by Nicole Ozer
- Finding the Founding: Meditations on the Declaration of Independence by Casey Spinks