Grantee Stories
Teaching East Asia Through Picture Books receives excellence in civic and community engagement awardMentored by staff from the Program for Teaching East Asia, University of Colorado Boulder students develop picture books that focus on a specific region of East Asia. These books are then used as teaching tools in K-12 classrooms across Colorado.
Through panels, workshops and a poster showcase, attendees of 91传媒's first ever Community Engagement Week shared experiences, networked and built their knowledge and skills for conducting community engagement.
In fire-prone communities, wildfire practitioners are often the sole advocates for making adaptations and are isolated from professional peers and researchers. A community of practice鈥攔epresenting 82 practitioners from eight states鈥攃onvened for its second workshop to learn from one another and researchers.
91传媒 held its first Community Engagement Week, exploring ways to deepen, extend public outreach moving forward
Amanda听Giguere, Colorado Shakespeare Festival Director of Outreach, recently traveled to Australia as a featured guest听of the University of Melbourne to share research about the Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program.
A new exhibit from We Are Water at the Alamosa Public Library focuses on place-based education and storytelling to bring together multi-generational audiences to learn and share about water in their community.
The Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program (SVP), a collaboration with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), CU Theatre & Dance, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, pairs Shakespeare鈥檚 plays with violence-
Designed in collaboration with the Autism Society of Boulder County, Fiske Planetarium hosts a monthly series of free sensory-friendly experiences intended for children with autism spectrum and sensory processing disorders.
Aspiring filmmaker and 91传媒 senior Francesca Hiatt鈥檚 short film, Cherry Yogurt, relies on subtlety to touch on grief and support, viewed through children鈥檚 eyes
Engineering students with the Science Engineering Inquiry Collaborative in Rural Colorado (SCENIC) program developed a hands-on 鈥渆rosion challenge鈥 for K-12 students to learn about the effects of flash flooding on infrastructure.