Exciting News!
Posted by collectivesolution on June 10, 2010
Summer has FINALLY arrived and boy, am I excited! I have so much to tell. Take a deep breath…and GO!
1. A cool idea that I dreamed up: a guidebook/project guide to universalize our Dodge Malaria! dodgeball tournament.
The toolkit that Lacey Stone (MNM’s marketing associate and my contact who has been indelibly helpful and supportive) sent me has really helped and I figured specifying it to fit with dodgeball might help other schools. It was a complicated process to get the tourney going and anything (seriously) will help! I also have this weird fascination with little projects (though, this time I WILL finish one…I’ll have to!) and so I’m really excited for the process to encompass collaborative input and actual creation.
I’ll definitely need help, though! Specifically, input from you on improvements, strengths (other than those that I’ve outlined in the post Approach to Tourney 2.0 -look below!) and other considerations would really shape the guidebook to be just that, an effective guide for hosting a Dodge Malaria! dodgeball tournament. A key to this is that is must be able to be implemented in a variety of school environments, that is to say, it must be universal but still helpful to different situations. Like I mentioned in the aforementioned post, we’ll need devil’s advocates and others who feel they have good suggestions. As the ultimate test of the guidebook’s success, we’ll use it to coordinate our tourney for the 2010-2011 school year (I have to take the time here to shout: SENIORS!). So, if you like the idea of a guidebook, holler at me and I think we can make it into something useful…maybe even something of merit to be posted on Malaria No More’s website! How cool is that?
2. I know, the above seems enough (and way too long for a blog post). BUT, I’m going to New York in July to shadow at Malaria No More’s offices for a short while! I’ll finally be able to meet the awesome, brilliant, and incredibly supportive employees/visionaries and get a first hand glimpse at what they do operationally. Worry not, I’ll be sure to outline all my adventures!
3. Aaaand the week after: I’ll be shadowing Dr. Nancy Degnan, the executive director of Columbia’s Earth Institute’s Center for Environmental Research and Conservation! She’s written papers on sustainable development, education initiatives, and microfinance- all things I’ve been really interested in! I cannot wait to meet her and see how she pursues her goal of emphasizing the bridge of progressive science education with schools- imagine the results of higher scientific knowledge in schools across America. Maybe that oil spill would be fixed…
www.cerc.columbia.edu (Also, check out www.earth.columbia.edu– about the Earth Institute/development/wonder/my calling…future post…)
Well, those are my summer adventures. Let me know via facebook or this blog if you’re interested in helping out for the guidebook! Enjoy summer!
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