Engineering and Care for our Communities This year, Caroline Baillie, Eric Feinblatt, and Sarah Brownell from RIT, will be hosting conversations around the theme, ‘Engineering and Care for our Communities’ - we invite you to bring your own questions, conversation topics, and activities. Just to get started .... How can engineering incorporate design principles with […]
Engineering for 'whole health' (people and planet The theme for this year’s Critical Conversations Retreat emerges from discussions around Caroline’s new online Masters program, MESH – MS in Engineering for Sustainability and Health, which is explicitly transdisciplinary and grounded in the principles of social and environmental justice. It’s always tricky to bring disparate disciplines together and […]
Standing People Together and The Wizard School are excited to come together this fall to bring you our first Tree Kids event. Like stories and role-playing? Love to play in the woods? Like films? In this unique 6-week program, your children can take part in nature-based challenges and games, as well as story telling, role […]
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in Spring beginning April 18th, 2020 and running through June 6th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature.
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM. Based onthe European model of ‘Forest school’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities,learn craft and teamwork skills, create artwork, embark on adventures, developresilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature. Parents andcarers may accompany their children and have fun in nature or […]
The magnitude of the human-driven degradation of our planet's life support systems can easily leave us at a loss at where to begin – all the more so because efficiency and productivity (those twin poles of an unfettered growth paradigm) are in the DNA of most engineers who have scant practice separating the aims of […]
This 8-week program will be held every Monday from 10AM -1PM beginning May 6, 2019 through June 24th. Intended as a nature immersion program, participants will engage in fun, unstructured and structured activities, while learning science, math, and engineering in the woods! We will address many NY Engage topics within Science, Design, Technology and Math, […]
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in spring and autumn: May 4th – June 22nd & again on Sept 7th – October 26th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, […]
Outdoor Math to enhance student engagement and improve learning. This is an online event: a webinar presented by Caroline Baillie - Standing People Together - for the Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools (ERAFANS). http://erafans.org/event-3342116