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Games for Change: An Interview with Darren Garrett of Littleloud

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Each of the themes had parallels with urban existence now to make the themes relevant and to explode the chocolate box image of history that period drama can often present. One of their key objectives is address issues that affect teens and give them some tools to negotiate them.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Different roles may have different requirements, and some might require an interview. This letter is the first thing the volunteer will see, so make it count!

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. It''s powerful.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Both staff and visitors host TV programs in the space that range from interviews to game shows to salon chair ministries. Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses.

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

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In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. One of the special collections in the show is from Bruce Damer's Digibarn--an idiosyncratic personal museum of computer history.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

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They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. Tags: interview Book Discussion: Civilizing the Museum inclusion. It did that more than once.

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