by Lev Horodyskyj | 28 February 2023 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 14 February 2023 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 24 January 2023 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 13 December 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 15 November 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 4 October 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 3 May 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 19 April 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 22 March 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 1 March 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 18 January 2022 | Course Design
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 11 January 2022 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 30 November 2021 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 9 November 2021 | News
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...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 28 September 2021 | News
28 September 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder As we kick off fall here in the northern hemisphere, it’s time for some updates on a slew of projects, including Agavi, Greenworks, and our recently re-awakened public outreach projects. Agavi On the Agavi front, we...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 3 August 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
Lack of Curiosity Killed Schrödinger’s Cat Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA The grand finale of my modeling lab sequence at the University of the Virgin Islands in spring 2021 was going to be a 3D model of the orbitals of the hydrogen atom. Although often...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 15 June 2021 | Field Notes, University of the Virgin Islands
@Home Modeling Tags: US Virgin Islands | USA Imagine that you’re taking a movie-making course. On the first day, you learn that movie-making requires writing a script, auditioning actors, framing your shots, editing, audio remixing, special effects,...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 8 June 2021 | News
8 June 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder We’ve been busy behind the scenes over the past few months. First, a heartfelt thank you to all our new donors who joined us for the GlobalGiving Climate Action Campaign 2021 (we finished number 34) to help fund our Indonesian...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 8 June 2021 | Course Design
Rethinking Explaining Science One of the most aggravating statements for a scientist to hear is that any scientific idea is “just a theory”, as if a theory is a random half-baked guess. Of course, we jump to correct anyone who says this by describing how...
by Lev Horodyskyj | 24 March 2021 | News
24 March 2021 Lev Horodyskyj Founder This week, we’ve kicked off the next iteration of our Greenworks program. In this program, students from multiple universities work together to learn about the science behind various environmental challenges as well as...
