Having completed the first month of our AmeriCorps internship, we have gained insight and formulated plans with our respective community service projects.
The first ever after-school enrichment program run by Teton Science Schools at Rendezvous Upper Elementary School in Driggs finished up last Thursday, marking a successful completion to the six week course.
During an early morning faculty meeting, graduate students and I listened to Sarah Kate present her observations from a recent Learning and the Brain in San Francisco, CA.
It’s 5am in the middle of winter, hours before dawn. The temperature is -5°F and a Chevy Astro sits on the side of the road, back hatch opened with two bundled figures peering out.
Baba Dioum, a prominent Senegalese conservationist, said, “In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.”
