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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday. I feel like I have already learned so much, and I haven’t even started your book yet!”. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately.

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Let's Stop Talking about What People Need

Museum 2.0

It''s really important to be able to articulate what we need to achieve our institutional missions. I don''t hear this phrase accompanied by evidence-based articulation of "needs" of audiences. They can also be educational, challenging, empowering, political. But what do they need? Cultural experiences should be a pleasure.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

Or maybe education staff are not willing to engage real-time visitors in dialogue around controversial issues. I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. In the end, this generated a substandard product for the client, and disappointment for the teens. That’s fine.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

You’ll land on Braincake , their social networking site for girls, parents, and teachers focused on math and science education. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. They’re stealing my thing!

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. They graduate high school in record numbers and the majority go on to post-secondary education.

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. They graduate high school in record numbers and the majority go on to post-secondary education.