Read the full February 14, 2023 newsletter here. YOUTH LEADERSHIP, ADVOCACY & ACTIVISM BLM @ NYC Schools: Fighting for Representation in NYC Curriculum Students rallied at the New York City Department of Education headquarters to advocate for mandated Black history and ethnic studies in NYC public school curricula....
Congratulations to GK Executive Director Dominique Jones, who was recently named one of Crain's New York Business' Notable Black Leaders of 2023! Dominique is proud to represent Global Kids with this honor and considers the win a testament to all the incredible work that GK...
GK Student Ambassadors Join Call to Action Against Climate Change at COP27 Conference in Egypt This year, two of our GK leaders traveled to the coastal city of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt for COP27, this year’s iteration of the UN’s annual conference on climate change. Mohamed and Yohany spent the...
Executive Director Dominique Jones and Rutgers University student Jillian Lewis, a Global Kids alum and 2022 recipient of the inaugural Carole Artigiani Scholarship, recently sat down with host Daren Jaime on BronxNet TV to discuss GK's Annual Benefit and the impact of our year-round programs....
By Myles Bittner, GK Intern & Elizabeth Bishop, Supervisor of DLL Last week, the NYC Department of Education hosted a Computer Science For All (CS4ALL) Professional Development Institute and the Global Kids Digital Learning and Leadership (DLL) team was invited to present a Scratch workshop series...
By Ahmed Ali (GK Trainer) Using digital tools like Sketchbook and digital drawing pads, several dedicated Global Kids students from PS 96 worked during lunch periods and after school to create portraits of significant figures in science for Black History Month. Not only did the students...
By Marcus Del Valle (DLL Trainer) and Matthew Wallace (DLL Trainer) The DLL team had a busy first day of CUNY Games Conference 2018. Bishop, Marcus, and I led three consecutive events in the afternoon! The first was a panel on the tech tools DLL uses...
Matthew and Iram DLL Trainers A few weeks ago, DLL’s Matthew and Iram attended the 2017 Games for Change Festival! Matthew enjoyed the session exploring "VR in the Classroom," both because it's a topic that DLL should explore more in the future and also because this is a...
Some swag from the Esri Conference In mid-July, thanks to the support from the Hive Learning Network Opportunity Fund, my Global Kids colleague, Marcus, and I participated in the Esri (Environmental Systems Research Institute) User Conference “Applying the Science of Where” in San Diego. Esri, which...
Matthew W. DLL Program Assistant This Wednesday, DLL at P.S. 109 added a very hands-on component to its game design curriculum with the introduction of Makey Makey controllers to students' work with Scratch. Makeys resemble an old-school Nintendo controller - two buttons and a...