The Sea Change in Science Education: Corporate Stakeholders Step Up
By Pete Monfre and Maggie Bencivenga Dr. Miya Bialik, looking bookish in her black rimmed glasses seems surprised by the question delving into her childhood school experience.
Stories by Pete Monfre
Two days, Three Doctors, Three Kids and Two Hundred and Thirty Desperate Patients
April 12-13 in NicaraguaIt was a rough night for the crew. The howler monkeys were trumpeting their calls later than usual, blasting away in the treetops until well past midnight.
Exploration Nation: Life and Death in Nicaragua
The human body is an astonishing machine. It can adapt to many different climates, conditions and situations, no doubt the reason humans have endured for tens of thousands of years.
Exploration Nation: The Last Shaman
On April 9th, our expedition team made its way to Puerto Viejo Sarapiqui, a small town on the Indian river at the far northern edge of Costa Rica. Here we would catch a river boat to travel deep into the southern region of Nicaragua where we would be rejoined with the tribal elders whom we had met in October of 2012.What is normally a three hour boat ride has transformed into a seven hour trip due to low river levels...
Exploration Nation: Rebuilding the Rain Forest
Our host Rafael from Rios Tropicales warned us that he was taking us pretty far off the grid to show us how his team is implementing a massive reforestation program in Costa Rica.
Exploration Nation: Day 3
Our team spent the day working with Dole working on one of the company's sustainable banana farms. While we have been plagued with rain and equipment problems, the Central American weather cooperated today and, after an hour of tech throw down, we acquired a satellite and went live for our daily broadcast...
Exploration Nation: Day Two - April 5
As the sun rises in Horquetas, Costa Rica we don't need an alarm clock. The birds are up early, presumably getting the worms and broadcasting their enthusiasm for the morning for all to hear.While we are weary from travel, this is the first official day of the Expedition and we are greeted by our friends from Dole...
Exploration Nation: Expedition Central America - Day One - April 4th
As we sit in the Austin airport, my team of middle school explorers from Exploration Nation are attempting to hide their excitement. They are unsuccessful.
Exploration Nation: Expedition Central America
Live video for mobile from UstreamIn two days I leave with a team of three middle school kids, three Special Forces veterans, four international surgeons and a motley film crew to embark on a 12 day series of scientific explorations culminating in deploying a mobile medical facility for the Rama Indians deep in the heart of Nicaragua’s Indio Maiz Biological Reserve.Follow our three kid explorers (Enzo, Emma and Haley) as they work side by side with experts to uncover the secrets of how innovation improves lives and sustains communities...
Kids Lead Crowd-Funded Scientific Mission to Nicaragua: Science Education Is the Tide That Lifts All Boats
Enzo, Haley and Emma are ordinary kids working on an extraordinary mission. They are joining up with a team of Special Forces medics and elite, global surgeons to deliver medical aid to the Rama Indians of Nicaragua in the spring of 2013.In partnership with HumaniTV, the journey will be beamed to tens of thousands of kids around the globe by satellite as the three middle school students trek through the jungles of Central America performing research on sustainable agriculture and seeing first hand how science and innovation improves peoples’ lives.“We want to send a message to kids that science isn’t just about getting a better job and making more money,” says team captain and the creator of Exploration nation, twelve year old Enzo...
