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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. I got a group of 8 teens together and I taught them a simple Photoshop project. I've also learned that experiences outside of the classroom are just as valuable as those that occur inside. They kept coming back, and it escalated into its own organization.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. We invite visitors to record themselves at the front desk with the staff member, and every month, we dump new voices into the staircase. We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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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. Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Let's look at these one by one.

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