by Alice Lin | Nov 22, 2013 | Events
We are excited to invite you to our December Imagination Educator Salon with Leslie Aaronson, LAUSD’s 2012 Teacher of the Year and Lead Teacher at Foshay Tech Academy here in Los Angeles. Leslie’s talk is entitled “Future-Ready: Preparing Kids to...
by Alice Lin | Oct 28, 2013 | Announcements
We’re having a Cardboard Challenge video contest! Make a short video of your Cardboard Challenge, and upload it to YouTube by Sunday, November 17th. If you want some inspiration, check out our videos from last year: https://www.imagination.is/gcc_videos. The...
by Alice Lin | Oct 1, 2013 | Announcements
We are excited to announce that we now have over 70,000 participants from 39 countries – including Finland, Israel, South Africa and Kenya – registered for our 2013 Global Cardboard Challenge. The Challenge will culminate on Saturday, October 5th when...
by Alice Lin | Sep 9, 2013 | Announcements
Our friends at Australian toy company Makedo have invented some awesome, re-useable tools for cardboarding, and we’re teaming up with them again for this year! For the 2013 Global Cardboard Challenge, they’ve created special Cardboard Challenge Kits...
by Alice Lin | Aug 1, 2013 | Announcements
Dream it and they will come! We are excited to announce Mattress Firm as the National ‘Challenge America’ Sponsor for our 2nd Annual Global Cardboard Challenge. Mattress Firm will be collecting cardboard and craft supplies at over 1,100 stores across North...
by Alice Lin | Jun 19, 2013 | Announcements
In early May, Leigh Pourciau, a Mississippi middle school teacher and teacher consultant with the National Writing Project, met up with Nirvan and Caine at Learnzillion’s Teachfest. In the weeks since, Pourciau has been thoughtfully populating the blogosphere...
by Alice Lin | Jun 3, 2013 | Classroom
A 5-Day Design Process Project in Bogota, Colombia Last month, 9th graders at Colegio Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia created cardboard arcade games for other classes to play as part of a five-day design process project. These kids explored and built what they...
by Alice Lin | May 30, 2013 | Announcements
On Tuesday, our unofficial BOSS, Caine Monroy, joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and other thought leaders in Washington D.C. for the “Reimagining Education: Empowering Learners in a Connected World” innovation summit hosted by the U.S....
by Alice Lin | May 23, 2013 | Announcements
Musician Pitbull was given $10,000 by ACM Lifting Lives (the charitable arm of the Academy of Country Music) to donate to his favorite charity, and Pitbull chose the Imagination Foundation! Thank you Pitbull and ACM for helping us foster creativity in kids everywhere....
by Alice Lin | May 20, 2013 | Classroom
A Math Arcade in Indianapolis, IN Mr. Auslander’s 5th graders have figured out a way to make state test prep a little more exciting. The class lobbied their teacher to let them build their own cardboard arcade and decided to create games that were not...
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