Events
The Engineering, Social Justice and Peace annual conference on the theme of Removing Borders Among Disciplines will be held at nearby Sky Lake Camp and Retreat Center. Standing People Together is co-hosting this conference with a special Saturday morning session at Cala Munda.
The magnitude of the human-driven degradation of our planet's life support systems can easily leave us at a loss at where to begin – all the more so because efficiency and productivity (those twin poles of an unfettered growth paradigm) are in the DNA of most engineers who have scant practice separating the aims of […]
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM. Based onthe European model of ‘Forest school’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities,learn craft and teamwork skills, create artwork, embark on adventures, developresilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature. Parents andcarers may accompany their children and have fun in nature or […]
Spend time in the forest developing scientific discovery and inquiry skills, learning to design, create and build like engineers, finding out how nature solves its problems!
This 8-week program will be held on Saturday mornings from 10AM-12PM in Spring beginning April 18th, 2020 and running through June 6th. Based on the European model of ‘Forest School’, participants will engage in fun outdoor activities, learn craft and teamwork skills, embark on adventures, develop resilience, confidence, independence, and a strong bond with nature.
Drama in the Woods is an 8-wk out-of-doors after-school program for Grades 1-3 at Sullivan West Elementary School. Participants will improvise stories, make masks, music and sets, and use movement to create and perform an original production inspired by Uno's Garden, Graeme Base's story of a forest rich with phantasmagoric animal and plant life that […]
Standing People Together invites you to enroll in our Autumn 2020 Forest Exploratorium. Like to Act or, at least, give it a try? Love to be outside? This may be for you! Drama in the Woods is an 8-wk out-of-doors, at-a-distance after-school program for elementary age children. Participants will improvise stories, make masks, music and […]
Standing People Together and The Wizard School are excited to come together this fall to bring you our first Tree Kids event. Like stories and role-playing? Love to play in the woods? Like films? In this unique 6-week program, your children can take part in nature-based challenges and games, as well as story telling, role […]
Engineering for 'whole health' (people and planet The theme for this year’s Critical Conversations Retreat emerges from discussions around Caroline’s new online Masters program, MESH – MS in Engineering for Sustainability and Health, which is explicitly transdisciplinary and grounded in the principles of social and environmental justice. It’s always tricky to bring disparate disciplines together and […]
Engineering and Care for our Communities This year, Caroline Baillie, Eric Feinblatt, and Sarah Brownell from RIT, will be hosting conversations around the theme, ‘Engineering and Care for our Communities’ - we invite you to bring your own questions, conversation topics, and activities. Just to get started .... How can engineering incorporate design principles with […]
