A Cool Place That Welcomes Geeks? Try the Public Library
10 July 2011
The Rutland Free Library features a large poster of popular local hotdog vendor Lenny Montuori as part of the "Geek the Library" campaign in Rutland, Vermont.
BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I’m Barbara Klein.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And I’m Christopher Cruise. This week on our program, we tell you about an unusual advertising campaign called "Geek the Library." Plus, we learn about a music education program in New York and a science education program in Vermont.
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BARBARA KLEIN: Lisa Purcell likes to make science fun for schoolchildren and adults. Here she is, training adult volunteers how to teach kids about owls.
LISA PURCELL: "Hooh-hoo-hooh-hooo. Hoooohoooooo! So try it again."
VOLUNTEERS: "Hooh-hoo-hooh-hoo. Hoooohoooooo!"
Lisa Purcell worked for years at the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. But then she and several others from the institute decided to create their own way to support community-based science education.
Lisa Purcell training parent volunteers to teach an elementary school workshop on owls.
In two thousand six they started the Four Winds Nature Institute. Four Winds has one thousand five hundred volunteers in four states in the Northeast.
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Science educators say hands-on study of natural science often gets less attention in schools than it should. Schools can pay Four Winds to provide training for adults who want to share their interest in nature with children. Lisa Purcell says the programs might include, for example, a puppet show.
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