What would happen if you tossed together four different street dances with one infectuous electro-swing song? You'd get this routine — "It Don't Mean a Thing"! I am excited to share with you this video of me and my friends performing at Wednesday Night Hop in Mountain View last week. Dancers Shawn , Jeremy,…
Category: SF Bay Area
Teens Learn Citizen Science, Create Digital Games on Mt. Tam
A couple of years ago, I led a summer camp for middle schoolers called the "Pearson Young Scientists" at the California Academy of Sciences. It was a super fun program to develop and facilitate, taking a group of a dozen middle schoolers from the Bay Area and exposing them to citizen science, local parks, and…
Awesome Hippo Skull
Today was the Member Preview of the new "Skulls" exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences. It was great seeing all of the visitors oo'ing and ah'ing the specimens, playing with the interactives, and taking lots and lots of pictures. Particularly all of the kids. I really love this massive hippo skull I encountered today!…
Learn the Science of Skulls at Cal Academy Starting May 16!
This Friday, the California Academy of Sciences is opening our newest exhibit "Skulls" which I'm super excited about. This latest exhibit will focus on all of the things you can learn about an animal from its skull, why we collect skulls and skeletons, and our impressive collection of skulls … from the tiniest bird…
Jazzawockeez performing next week in SF!
A group of dancer friends of mine and I — performing under the very tongue-in-cheek name the "Jazzawockeez" — will be performing a couple of times next week, and it would be great to see you there! We've got a new routine that we've been working on called "It Don't Mean a Thing…" that we…
No Kid Is More Baller than This Kid
Check out this awesome kid in this photo from a Wall Street Journal article on the "Edible Schoolyard" project. No, seriously, check him out! Awesome tee-shirt: CHECK. Attitude: CHECK. Chicken: CHECK.
Six Things I learned at House Dance Conference Bay Area
This weekend I went to House Dance Conference Bay Area, a three day celebration of the art of house dancing. Sponsored by MVMT Dance Studio in Berkeley, the event featured competitions, dance parties and dance classes. Best of all, it was completely free! I've been to a number of different kinds of dance weekends, from swing to…
Irish and Bay Area Kids Learn to Code Together at the Cal Academy
On Thursday, the California Academy of Sciences hosted a fun coding workshop for middle schoolers that I helped facilitate. The occasion was the visit of five young programmers from Cork, Ireland to the Bay Area, along with the Deputy Lord Mayor of Cork, and various other dignitaries from Ireland. The sponsoring organization was called CoderDojo,…
Cal Academy of Sciences in NY Times Article on Bringing Museums Online
The California Academy of Sciences got a nice mention in a recent article in the New York Times on how museums are increasing their reach via offering lectures and other experiences online. "Another innovator is the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. In January it began offering an online biodiversity course, devised for teachers and…
My 2nd Anniversary at the California Academy of Sciences!
It's been a hectic past couple of weeks, so I completely forgot to mention that February 13th was my two year anniversary of working at the California Academy of Sciences! Originally hired as a program assistant in the brand new Digital Learning arm of the museum in 2012, I'm so honored to be the Senior…