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…
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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…
Classic Cal Academy Logo from the 2000s and Today
Last week, I managed to score this rare polo shirt during an internal staff "yard sale" — featuring the previous logo for the California Academy of Sciences. Actively in use at least from the late 1990s to the early aughts, the image has a certain playfullness to it, combining our interests in paleontology, marine biology and…
Learn about Biodiversity from the Khan Academy and Cal Academy!
I am super excited about this new digital learning partnership that the California Academy of Sciences has begun with the amazing Khan Academy. For those that don't know, the Khan Academy is an online school where millions of students learn everything from basic math to python programming to art history. All for free! The Cal Academy…
Fly through the History of Everything in “Dark Universe” at the Cal Academy
Tonight I got to see a sneak preview of the new "Dark Universe" planetarium show that is opening at the California Academy of Sciences on January 31st. Produced by the American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with the Cal Academy, "Dark Universe" explains in stunning visuals and animations the past, present and future of…
“Sutro” (a poem)
First poem of 2014. Sutro Morning warming sun Chill breeze on my cheeksThe surf mist tickles Bones vibrate with each thu-thump of the wavesGulls callAnd everywhereThe lightThe lightThe light Rik Panganiban, 2014