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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

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Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. Spence, an 11 th grader at ECHS wrote, “I am one of the Environmental Charter students you presented to on Friday. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately. I still am.

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Co-Creating Exhibits with Teens and Volunteers: The Importance of Criteria

Museum 2.0

They want articulated goals and expectations. This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. At first, we didn't understand what they were talking about.

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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. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops. YES students defy expectations.

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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. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops. YES students defy expectations.

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

Museum 2.0

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day?

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Few were able to articulate a response policy that wasn't based entirely on the volume of the ire raised. Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. Museum professionals don’t have the tools to make wise decisions about when and why to self-censor.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. iThrive Games is a nonprofit devoted to developing educational games and resources to help teens reach their full potential. Nonprofit Website Overview. Mission page.