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Explorer Classroom is a program designed to reduce barriers and digitally connect National Geographic explorers, scientists, storytellers, and researchers to as many learners as possible! Typical events include a short lesson and an extended Q&A with students. Some students, classrooms, and families join on screen, meeting the explorer face-to-face and asking questions & many more send their questions to the explorer live in the chat bar or submit them in advance during the registration process.
Click here to check out the 1 minute program sizzle and see Explorer Classroom in action!
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Celeste built this program up from a small monthly opportunity into a marquee offering, hosting 100+ events per year on a regular schedule, overhauling the program’s logic model and assessments, redoing the website and registration process, and piloting events in Spanish, ASL, for early childhood audiences, and for high school audiences.
She designed the program operations to better support early career grantees joining as the talent; removing barriers for historically excluded communities and ensuring the role models being presented could reflect the full spectrum of audience members.
Check out some example events:
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The Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership foundation puts on an annual weeklong event, bringing together hundreds of teen leaders that represent local HOBY Leadership Seminars from across North America and around the world. This World Leadership Congress (WLC) is once in a lifetime opportunity for young people that consists of leadership development, service learning, and cross cultural exchange. Participants have the option to write a capstone paper about the experience to receive college credit from George Mason University.
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Celeste rewrote the WLC curriculum and introduced a variety of new modalities to the weeklong seminar. The WLC became more participatory, less didactic, and better able to serve the needs and interests of the learners.
Attached is a workbook she co-designed that guided participants through the event. It served as schedule, activity worksheets, and journal for the full week and afterwards became a souvenir of the experience as well as a reflection resource for students as they wrote their capstone papers.