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At a time when teachers and students across the country feel their classrooms are increasingly surveilled and politicized, two University of Colorado centers are coming together to choose collaboration over competition, coalition over silos and hope for educators and students alike.Ìý

From investigating the health impacts of pollution emissions on residents in Gloster, Mississippi, to a week-long coding bootcamp for Denver-area community college students, 14 projects received over $49,000 in funding.

Mentored by staff from the Program for Teaching East Asia, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ students develop picture books that focus on a specific region of East Asia. These books are then used as teaching tools in K-12 classrooms across Colorado.

Through panels, workshops and a poster showcase, attendees of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's first ever Community Engagement Week shared experiences, networked and built their knowledge and skills for conducting community engagement.

In fire-prone communities, wildfire practitioners are often the sole advocates for making adaptations and are isolated from professional peers and researchers. A community of practice—representing 82 practitioners from eight states—convened for its second workshop to learn from one another and researchers.

Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder held its first Community Engagement Week, exploring ways to deepen, extend public outreach moving forward

AmandaÌýGiguere, Colorado Shakespeare Festival Director of Outreach, recently traveled to Australia as a featured guestÌýof the University of Melbourne to share research about the Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program.

A new exhibit from We Are Water at the Alamosa Public Library focuses on place-based education and storytelling to bring together multi-generational audiences to learn and share about water in their community.

The Shakespeare & Violence Prevention program (SVP), a collaboration with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival (CSF), Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØTheatre & Dance, and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, pairs Shakespeare’s plays with violence-

Designed in collaboration with the Autism Society of Boulder County, Fiske Planetarium hosts a monthly series of free sensory-friendly experiences intended for children with autism spectrum and sensory processing disorders.