We hope that you’ve been staying safe, and finding moments of joy and peace, even though it's hard right now. We also wanted to share opportunities for honoring the 50th anniversary of Earth Day and what would have been Take Your Kids to Work Day next week.
To help us honor Earth Day in this present moment, our colleague, Dr. Al Armendariz, will share insights from the Harvard study released last week which found a connection between poorer air quality and people having a higher risk of mortality from the coronavirus. Dr. Armendariz got his PhD from the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and has been working with our Comms staff to talk about the study with reporters from around the country. Please join Al for a Science Hour on Tuesday April 21st at 4pm ET/1 pm PT. We’ll record this webinar in case you miss it. (LINK)
We’ve also planned some kid-friendly activities as some of us live a 24-hour version of Taking Your Kids to Work…
All week long:
Monday, April 20th @ 1pm ET/10am PT - Guided meditation break for kids and adults (LINK) (20 min; geared towards kids of all ages)
Tuesday, April 21st @1pm ET/10am PT - Comics drawing class with Lauren Davis, contributing author of Debian Perl: Digital Detective and Sci-Fi San Francisco! In this class, Lauren will teach you the basics of cartoon illustration. (LINK, and please note the Password for this meeting is “sierra”) (60 minutes; ages 6-10)
Wednesday, April 22nd @ 2pm ET/11am PT - The Great Paper Caper - Story Time and Paper Airplanes/Seed Balls with Lindi von Mutius (LINK; 30 minutes; all ages)
Thursday, April 23rd @ 12pm ET/9am PT- Story Time with Rebecca Kling (LINK; 30 minutes; all ages)
Thursday, April 23rd @ 1pm ET/10am PT- Story Time with Adrian Cotter (LINK; 30 minutes; all ages)
Thursday, April 23rd @ 5pm ET/2pm PT - Story Time with Sarah Vig (LINK; 30 minutes; all ages)