Celeste Moreno
PhD Student • MS, TMS '20 • CHILDREN'S EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, MAKERSPACES
ATLAS Institute
celeste.moreno@colorado.edu

Celeste Moreno is a PhD student in the Creative Communities research group, advised by Ricarose Roque, assistant professor of information science. Celeste designs and researches creative learning experiences for learners of all ages that combine tools and ideas from multiple disciplines, such as computing, art and science. She received an MS in Creative Technology and Design from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in biological and pre-medical illustration from Iowa State University.

Projects

Publications

C. Moreno, R. Roque. 2023. “Revealing the Tuning Practices of Creative Learning Experience Designers”. In: Proceedings of the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference (C&C ‘23) (Virtual, June 19-21, 2023). 

Finch, L., Moreno, C. & Shapiro, R.B. Teacher and student enactments of a transdisciplinary art-science-computing unit. Instr Sci 48, 525–568 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-020-09518-1 (June 25, 2020).

Abigail Zimmermann-Niefield, Shawn Polson, Celeste Moreno, and R. Benjamin Shapiro. 2020. Youth making machine learning models for gesture-controlled interactive media. In Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 63–74. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3392063.3394438. (London, UK–June 2020).

 

In the news

zack weaver at maker made event
Maker Made 2022 features work by ATLAS community

Feb. 22, 2022

A group of six artists and technologists connected to the ATLAS community contributed to BLDG 61’s Maker Made 2022, which runs through March 28 at the Boulder Public Library. Zack Weaver, who played a key role in establishing the ATLAS BTU Lab and the show’s curator, says the inspiration for Maker Made goes back to his days at Carnegie Mellon with ATLAS Director Mark Gross.

Celeste Moreno
Computer Science Education Week: Celeste Moreno leads animation workshop

Feb. 16, 2021

As part of Boulder’s Computer Science Education Week (CSED), ATLAS PhD student Celeste Moreno will be teaching "Animate Your World," a workshop geared towards beginners and families. The workshop is part of Moreno’s graduate research in the Department of Information Science’s Creative Communities group, funded under an NSF award (NSF-2005702) titled, “Tinkering and Making Strategies to Engage Children and Families in Creating with Code.”

Celeste Moreno shows a young visitor how to make music by painting on a piece of paper during the 2018 Computer Science Education Week.
Computer Science Education Week: Celeste Moreno leads educator workshop

Dec. 3, 2019

“Micro:bits are becoming an increasingly important part of coding for kindergarten through 12th-grade classrooms,” says Celeste Moreno, a research master’s student at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute who designed and will lead the "Making and Learning with Micro:bit" workshop. “It's an affordable and flexible tool that allows students to make changes in the physical world using code."