17 September 2024

17 September 2024 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We have been pretty busy this summer.  Much of the work is still in progress and will continue through the end of the year, with some big updates coming soon for Greenworks and Agavi.  In the meantime, we want to congratulate...

11 June 2024

11 June 2024 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We are happy to welcome this year’s cohort of volunteers from the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science’s Young Scientist Program.  They’ll be working to develop the Greenworks network. Welcome to our Summer...

30 January 2024

30 January 2024 Lev Horodyskyj Founder It’s the start of a new year (and the 5th year of Science Voices!) and I am happy to announce that Cohort 1 has completed the Greenworks teacher development program late last year and are well on their way to implementing...

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Translator Tags: Inflection Points As I sat conversing with Dr. Roberto Greco about our career pathways and our shared interest in geoscience education and its research after the end of the GeoSciEd conference in Campinas, Brazil, in 2018, I realized that I had come...

5 September 2023

5 September 2023 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Our projects have progressed nicely over the last few months, especially with our Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Young Scientist Program and Hartnell Intern Program students.  With those programs now completed, we thank...

4 July 2023

4 July 2023 Lev Horodyskyj Founder It’s been a busy first half of the year.  First, many thanks to those of you who donated to our March fundraiser.  We raised a decent amount of money to help support the Greenworks program over the next year.  Besides that, I...

28 February 2023

28 February 2023 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Our major fundraiser is coming up in just one short week.  Mark your calendars! Caribbean Astrotourism Project We’re happy to welcome Kira Nolan to our volunteer corp.  Kira comes to us from California with expertise in...

14 February 2023

14 February 2023 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’ve just returned from a site visit to Ternate, Indonesia, where we worked with our colleagues at Khairun University for ten days to take a look at how projects have developed and to discuss future directions for our...

24 January 2023

24 January 2023 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Happy New Year everyone!  We’ve got a lot of exciting events coming up this year.  We’ll be starting off the new year in Ternate, Indonesia, to check in on our projects there, conduct some teacher training, and record...

13 December 2022

13 December 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Happy holidays to everyone who celebrates this time of year!  We have a lot to celebrate this year, with the successful deployment of the Greenworks program in Brazil, Indonesia, and Ukraine.  In addition, our Greenworks program...

15 November 2022

15 November 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Over the past month, we were happy to host GlobalGiving in a virtual site visit.  GlobalGiving is our major fundraising platform and it was our pleasure to showcase our work for them.  Their visit coincided with a Greenworks...

4 October 2022

4 October 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’ve had a busy summer!  We’re in the process of completing grant activities for the Office of Astronomy for Development (Caribbean astrotourism project), Fulbright Indonesia (children’s book on waste...

3 May 2022

3 May 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’re happy to premiere our new podcast, Global.Science, this Thursday, May 5th.  Done in collaboration with Dr. Fabia Battistuzzi, this podcast will explore the many diverse approaches towards science education and public...

19 April 2022

19 April 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’ve completed revamps across the website to prepare for a number of upcoming projects.  We have a new About page with basic information about the organization.  We’ve also updated our Personnel page, as we’ve...

22 March 2022

22 March 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We are continuing to keep tabs on our colleagues in Ukraine, who remain safe in western Ukraine.  Meanwhile, I am settling down here in Brazil where we’re starting to recruit students for our Amazon River schools project.  We...

1 March 2022

1 March 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Our thoughts and prayers are with our colleagues in Ukraine as they suffer under a brutal assault and indefensible invasion.  We have been in regular contact with our faculty contacts, who are located in western Ukraine and mostly...

Negotiating International Classrooms

Negotiating International Classrooms My resolution passed.  That’s pretty much all I remember from my Model UN days.  That, and how nervous I was to get up in front of a crowd of other high school kids to propose a formal resolution to save the rain forests.  The...

11 January 2022

11 January 2022 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you’re excited for the upcoming year and all the potential that it holds.  We’ve taken a well-deserved break during the holidays (while also pushing forward on a variety of new...

30 November 2021

30 November 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder Today is Giving Tuesday!  Your support during the end of the year helps propel our work into the new year.  We have a number of exciting projects lined up, from implementing Agavi in Amazon rain forest schools and...

9 November 2021

9 November 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder End-of-year giving is just around the corner.  Mark your calendars for November 30th and December 13th-17th for matching opportunities through GlobalGiving!  We have active projects in Ukraine, Indonesia, Brazil, and the US...