This collaboration begins January 2023 and will be entirely in Spanish. This national effort in Peru is supported by three Peruvian organizations: Engitronic, CONCYTEC, and STEAM WORLD. The CubeSat above is the one we will use in Peru. A grand announcement of the OV4C CubeSat collaboration in Peru was made at the SmallSat Education Conference LINK (Kennedy Space Center Complex). One of the Peruvian teachers was funded by a private company to attend in person. This collabora

(Eric Wilson with students from Belize City / Project Management Workshop) July, 2022 Our visit to Belize City and Belmopan inspired so many great ideas that we plan to implement in future collaborations. Students, teachers, and mentors in Belize spent a day with Eric Wilson (CEO, The CPI Group) working on project management. Little did we know that Eric actually would have them apply what they learned by designing a space station. They even virtually met David Zuniga, (Seni

Junhyung Park, C4C, USAF United States Air Force Academy, CS-07, “Shadow Seven” What we are noticing at OV4C is the synergy from university students and young professionals who have a great passion for collaboration and connecting students to the wonder of aerospace inspired learning. They have AMAZING ideas on how to connect students to infinite opportunities and possibilities. OV4C is listening to young professionals who work with space agencies and organizations such as Si

Shoutout to Kaia for powering through an insightful parts list with detailed explanations of each parts function. July 15, 2022 The energy was high and the questions were many as University of Colorado Colorado Springs professors and students visited the interns. The interns will soon host a session for participating students and facilitating teachers to speak into what would be helpful as the tutorials are produced. We are discovering that there are so many ways to address i

Phnam Bagley recently presented two Voice 4 Change sessions. The Future of Education Deep Space Food Challenge Her futuristic approach and out-of-this-world ideas challenge us all to rethink what we are doing, and create better ways to prepare for the future of learning. Her partnership with One Voice 4 Change inspires and informs a path to achieving our mission. Mission To create world-wide educational partnerships that inspire learning and global citizenship. Phnam is som

GLEC 2022 began with a beautiful display of Ecuadorian culture, and a challenge to bring multiple countries together for the peaceful exploration of space. Building an ecosystem that brings space to life for everyone means that students MUST have access to learning that fits with their passions. Our mission at One Voice 4 Change is to create world-wide educational partnerships that inspire learning and global citizenship. Juan Jaramillo Rojas (CEO - Sideralis) is changing th

A GRAND COLLABORATION ON RENEWABLE ENERGY Spring 2022 Belize / US Backstory: https://issuu.com/waterstrategies/docs/hl_september_2021/s/13314527 The Challenge The world is in an energy generation transition from carbon (green-house gas) emitting sources such as coal and oil and replacing these with renewable energy and other forms of generation such as storage, nuclear and hydrogen. The ultimate goal of these efforts is to reduce global average temperatures. Industry’s challe

The Mentors will co-mentor their assigned team March 2 - May 2, 2023. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project is important to Peru in order to: Build STEM Capacity in the Educational System in Peru Promote Space Technology Application INSPIRE Peruvian Communities, Schools, Cities, and Families We are actively recruiting aerospace mentors for CubeSats in Peru. This Collaborative Learning Adventure will launch February, 2023 with several background knowledge presentations. . Subje

It was a great honor to support the Belize Teacher Professional Learning experience July 5-9, 2021. Our fundraising efforts were able to sponsor Belize teachers to attend and provide support for the educational experts that worked with the teachers. We were also able to provide supplies for teachers. I am so thrilled at this wonderful gift. Pathlight Belize has always seen teachers as important to our community. Now One Voice for Change has added to this light, this is truly

Students from Belize, UK, and the US presented their solutions on Nov. 9, 2021, for “How do we grow plants on Mars?” Among the groups preparing to pitch their solutions is Bishop Martin HS in Belize. AKA: Bishop “Martians.” The journey taken by all schools is that of discovery and of solving the unknown. The MG 2.0 design team includes Jim Christensen, the Executive Director of ShareSpace Education. Thanks to our AIAA Distinguished Mentors, we are discovering game-changing c

March 16th, 2021 Sponsored by Forbes Ignite, TIME’s Kid of the Year, Gitanjali Rao met with students from Colorado and Belize to begin discussions designed to listen to student voices on the topic of meaningful learning. One Voice 4 Change is searching for ways to honor these young voices for change by “creating world-wide educational partnerships that inspire learning and global citizenship.” In order to do this, we must listen to the voices of students and work with them to

My dear friend Alfredo Muro and I regularly drink coffee and discuss things like; the power of music, current events, and what can we all do to improve the world. We both feel strongly that hope resides in young people. Their intentions are quintessentially better able to accomplish what adults have failed to do. Our role is to listen to young people and somehow help them to do better than we did. We must help young people with why learning matters and how they can use it to

On Oct. 8, 2020 students from Belize and Colorado came together to learn about how to become a surgeon. Inspiring and informing our quest was Dr. Andrew P. Rabenstein, General Surgery • Stony Brook, NY. Another inspiration was Hadi from Edward P. Yorke High School in Belize City. In addition to telling us about her passion to become a surgeon, she had several questions for Dr. Rabenstein. How do you handle adversity? Dr. Rabenstein was able to join us from an actual opera

Oct. 6, 2020 Students and teachers from Belize joined students and teachers from Colorado to discover the intersection of technology and engineering with healthcare. Our guilds for this journey were leaders from three successful companies. Stryker / The 3D Printing Store / CoorsTek Representing Stryker were two senior engineers, Kristen Shaughnessy and Morgan Kollmeier. Kristen and Morgan were able to add an important human connections to the great work Skryker is doing. I

Let's take a look at how a simple collaboration has blossomed into life-changing opportunities. It all started on July 15, 2020 with Building Ships in Belize. https://www.onevoice4change.org/copy-of-synchronous-learning (scroll down to Building Ships in Belize) One of the featured Belizean students was Deetra. What Did We Discover? Susan Morrice told us to DREAM BIG! (Belize Natural Energy) Debra Wilcox explained that we must be agile. (The 3D Printing Store) Kate Migli

When students put a guitar in their hands, magic happens! They learn, they focus, they have fun. Instruments do more than entertain - they bring out the best in us. They bring out the creativity, the curiosity and the joy that is inside each of us waiting to be expressed. One Voice 4 Change is working to provide guitars to students in Belize and India. Please consider donating any amount on our website and all funds will be put toward the purchase of guitars. Guitar in Las Va

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What happens when students from India share computer Science ideas with students from Colorado? Accelerated Global Learning! The STEM School Highlands Ranch students came to school at 7:10 am. Across the world, it was 7:40 pm in Jaipur, India. The topic being discussed was using HTML to build pages on a website. In about one week, the students from Scotle HS learned how to use HTML and created an amazing page that went well beyond the basics. Wow it blew away my mind toda

Teachers are on the front lines of learning in Belize and Colorado. Thanks to a generous donation from AVer and a network of teachers guided by Emma Richardson and ECBOCES, we now have a way to connect teachers so that they can build relationships resulting in learning opportunities for their students. One Voice 4 Change delivered two room systems for online collaboration to PathLight offices in Belize City and Belmopan. The Belize City team of teachers and mentors, led by C

We recently had the honor of working with students form several schools served by ECBOCES. Our goal was to connect our team to the students' passion in learning. The diversity of interests, teamwork, collaborative spirit, and support from ECBOCES was AMAZING! Our subject matter guest was the founder of Entrepreneurial Earth, Martin Ogle. Martin set the tone telling a story about stories. Another guest was professional musician and music educator Richard Clarke. He he