Resilience - In Not So Timid Timika
Resilience = Challenge + Failure + Motivation As Part of my program in West Papua,I was able to combine teacher professional learning, student enrichment, as well as community development. The first location was in Tembagapura, a 30 min chopper flight at dawn into a mining community at 2500 meters. Here we ran student enrichment during the day, and teacher PD in the afternoons. We also ran the first the my science Oasis - where students/educators get to build their own hands-on science exhibits, creating learning tools, but more importantly building confidence and skills. I was also able to work with the lowlands "campus" of the IB school located in Kuala Kencana just outside the town of Timika. THAT was a great experience.. mind you just coming down the mountain in a steel box lined with 32 mm Kevlar on the back of a truck ..aka . a BUS.. was an experience. Once I had wrapped with the teachers and students of the Kuala Kencana school, I had time to volunteer next ...