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Outreach Live! in Kamaile

For the past dozen years, an important part of the ASTC conference has been the Outreach Live! event. Interested attendees visit an outreach project by a local museum or science centre and co-present programs.

This year two dozen attendees visited the outreach project our host the Bishop Museum is undertaking at the Kamaile Academy School on the leeward side of the island. Kamaile is a lower income area, with many families living on the beach - the area's homeless. It has also seen an influx of immigrants from Micronesia and Melanesia  some of whom are living in a nearby camp. You can see photos of the beautiful children here.

During the Outreach Live! event students participated in programs by Uncle Tom Cummings, a traditional storyteller; Jonah Cohen from the Childrens' Museum of Conneticut and a had lesson on island formation by Daniel Rogers from the Bishop Museum (and Uncle Tom). Our host was Amber Inwood, also of the Bishop Museum. The museum has forged strong emotional and professional bonds with the students, parents and teachers of the community and brings to Kamaile a fun take on science and their own traditionals and culture, but also friendship and a genuine desire to have the students see beyond their own community and be the best they can become.