![]() I like to encourage the students to interrupt me and ask whatever off-the-wall questions they have. You never know what kids are going to ask! Some of the questions are pretty adorable. I encourage them to have some questions ready and to send them to me in advance, if possible, so that I can be prepared. What happens before and during each session?īeforehand, I send the teacher a link to the GLBRC website and to a Prezi overview of what we do at GLBRC. That's usually how it goes: a subset of the group is super interested. ![]() They were older kids and some of them were very, very interested in all the stuff that I had to say. That was interesting for a lot of reasons. I also did a session with a juvenile facility of incarcerated kids in California. Most of the groups are in middle school or late-elementary. I've talked with students from early elementary-second or third grade as the youngest-up to high school. What kinds of student groups have you Skyped with? It kind of dovetailed, for better or worse, with the pandemic where no one can travel. This sounded like a really interesting and really easy way to do outreach. ![]() I had previously done a few other outreach things, and I've given talks at my alma mater, University of Evansville. I read about it somewhere on Twitter! I looked into it, and it looked really cool. How did you get involved with the program? ![]()
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