Environment Local Teen Voice 
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.
Amy Sample Ward
JULY 1, 2009
And many of us in these social environments, she said, “have gotten into the habit of crossing the street like we always do to avoid the riff-raff.” - NYO. The issues our social service agencies and social benefit organizations are dealing with offline, in local communities, are showing up online. Boyd explained to the crowd.
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Museum 2.0
JULY 6, 2016
One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" 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. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.
Tech Soup
MARCH 4, 2016
Focusing in on Local Issues. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. The app empowers community members to report concerns on oil and gas extraction activity that could negatively impact the environment. Open Data San Francisco. Kyle Ferrar, a Ph.D.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 18, 2010
Yesterday, I did a workshop with some local teenage girls in an after school program. They exploded, speaking all in one voice: "I don't even like ordering food in a restaurant." "I For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters.
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 6, 2009
Communities need to band together to support their local hospitals to fill in where the traditional resources are not enough by providing service, providing funding, advocating and governing (on Boards of Trustees). She said that there will never be enough resources from current funding sources (i.e. Orientations and trainings (i.e.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 7, 2008
Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is. What do you want?”
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