June 20, 2011 Mission? Make learning fun. Investigators? Preteens. GameQuest? STEM studies, deeply rooted in gaming fun. I’ve been saving this post about MIT MediaLab/Education Arcade's Vanished game for today’s opening of the Games For Change festival in NYC, since their keynote speaker Al Gore has been taking questions @G4C on Twitter about best practices to engage … [Read more...]
June 8, 2010 Why do we have to turn summer camp into a marketing opportunity for pink and blue? What's the matter with plain ol' grass green and outdoor fun? Admittedly, I never made it to a 'traditional camp' until I was a parent. We moved duty stations during summers, and if we didn’t, we were ‘free range kids,’ amped with self reliance, creative spunk, and behavior … [Read more...]
June 6, 2009 Calling all ‘young people who rock’ between the ages of 14-17...this is the final week to START to tell your tales in ‘Girls Helping Girls’ style (by June 15 to begin submissions, June 30 to finish them) to vy for the Youth Service America Gladys Coccia Award. Who is Gladys Marinelli Coccia? What’s her story? Let’s just say anyone who became a business woman at … [Read more...]
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