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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Through education and advocacy, the Colorado Mental Wellness Network seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to improve the quality of their lives, give back to the community through meaningful roles, and to change the perceptions of mental health. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. If you have a bunch of novice friends, it can be maddening to find appropriate “sous chef” roles for them to fill. It’s like cooking.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. Elaine : The media often undermines the role of games in institutions as showing them just as scavenger hunts and not interaction and personal exploration of learning and information.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. If you have a bunch of novice friends, it can be maddening to find appropriate “sous chef” roles for them to fill. It’s like cooking.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. Elaine : The media often undermines the role of games in institutions as showing them just as scavenger hunts and not interaction and personal exploration of learning and information.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour hour at the Museum.

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