I just finished uploading selected pictures from the couple of hundred photos I took in Chicago during the "I Dig Tanzania" trip. I’ll add more details and descriptions later. Enjoy! Now I’m off to sleep for about 12 hours.
Our fifth (and last?) day in Chicago
Here’s one of our teens Sabina enjoying the simple wonder of fireflies in Chicago. Yesterday, we headed over to Taste of Lincoln Avenue, which was pretty cool but a bit intense for the teens. Lots of adults milling about drinking beer, very loud rock music, and no real place to just chill out. So we…
Me breaking at Taste of Lincoln Avenue in Chicago
Our teens have been bugging me about dancing the entire time in Chicago. So I finally did a little breaking last night while we were walking around Taste of Lincoln Avenue. Good times.
Stuck in Chicago!
Apparently there is some serious storm rolling through New York making it impossible for my Global Kids group of seven teens and three adults to return to JFK today. So we are stuck in Chicago an extra day, with an afternoon flight getting us into La Guardia at 6pm tomorrow. Our teens have been incredible…
Teens check out flesh eating beetles at Field Museum
Here’s some of the teen participants in I Dig Tanzania getting to experience the wonders of the dermestid flesh eating beetle up close at the Field Museum yesterday. Some experiences just can’t be translated into the virtual very well. [More about dermestid beetles.]
Why it’s hard to explain what “I Dig Tanzania” is
Alicia, one of the Chicago teens participating in the "I Dig Tanzania" summer camp, explained perfectly why the project is both innovative and hard-to-explain to outsiders. We need to hire this kid!
I Dig Tanzania field trip day two: a behind-the-scenes peek of the Field Museum
Bill from the Field Museum showing a large fossil archival area Today was the first substantive day of the I Dig Tanzania field trip to Chicago, since yesterday was really just the New York folks arriving and heading to Wrigley Field. Today was totally action-packed, with in-depth tours of the Field Museum’s incredible fossil holdings,…
At Cubs Game with Global Kids and Field Museum teens
Yesterday, Global Kids and the Field Museum brought together a group of teens from New York and Chicago for the second of the "I Dig Tanzania" summer camp. Over the course of the next two days, we’ll have them meeting with some of the researchers who were in Tanzania in the flesh, exploring the Field…
Demo of OpenSim at Metaverse Meetup at Global Kids HQ tonight
Here’s a quick video I took from the Metaverse Meetup this evening at the Global Kids offices. That’s David Levine of IBM Research (Zha Ewry in SL) and Adam Frisby of DeepThink Labs (Adam Zaius in SL) introducing the OpenSim project to the 30 or so folks in our conference room. Heady stuff. Sadly, I…
Global Kids invades Liberty Island!
I had a lovely day with my colleagues in the Global Kids Online Leadership Program during our staff retreat on Liberty and Ellis Islands. It couldn’t have been a more pleasant way to spend a Tuesday "at work." We spent the morning on Liberty Island, in the shadow of the statue, talking about the program…