Solar Punk and Rural Education: A conversation

12:00pm PT / 2:00pm CT / 3:00pm ET

Join us. The literary, artistic, and social movement “Solar Punk” often portrays a futuristic, post-capitalist, and even decolonial, world. What does “Solar Punk” have to do with Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Computing (STEM+C) Learning? Is there a relationship between this literary genre and creating equitable access to educational materials? How does freedom play into the ideas of the solar punk movement, and how are those similar or different from creating access to technology in a warming world?

EdEon projects seek to partner with under-resourced, rural communities to bring technological assets that enable community members to engage critically in computational thinking and explore the roles that technology can or does play in their worlds. Laura Peticolas and Hannah Hellman discuss how they see their hands-on education work at EdEon STEM Learning and Sonoma State University reaching rural communities as part of this literary genre. Laura Peticolas is Co-Director of EdEon, a PhD physicist, and STEM+C educator. Hannah Hellman is EdEon’s Communications Specialist, a Masters in English, and writer.

June 27, 2025, 12:00pm PT / 2:00pm CT / 3:00pm ET