Art Blog

Note: This post was produced in 2022 by a participant in DNDA’s Summer Youth Program writing workshop led by Beverly Aarons. Author: Dimples D. I always wanted to travel to so many places in the future. Hearing about my mom’s travel stories was exciting. She has traveled to the states of Hawaii and California. She…

Note: This post was produced in 2022 by a participant in DNDA’s Summer Youth Program writing workshop led by Beverly Aarons. Author: Dreamy B. If you’re an adult and you were in a room of teenagers and you pulled out a phone to take a picture, more than half of them would duck, cover their…

Note: This post was produced in 2022 by a participant in DNDA’s Summer Youth Program writing workshop led by Beverly Aarons. Author: Fadumo A. Her name is Cayni and she’s going into 11th grade this September. She plans on graduating high school and going to college. Where do you ask? The University of Washington (UW).…

Note: This post was produced in 2022 by a participant in DNDA’s Summer Youth Program writing workshop led by instructor Beverly Aarons. Beverly Aarons loves to write, her passion for writing started out as her telling stories in the   third grade. She said she really enjoyed telling her classmates stories about things that weren’t…

Note: This post was produced in 2022 by a participant in DNDA’s Summer Youth Program writing workshop led by Beverly Aarons. Author: Ismahan S. The ocean is a place where people go to enjoy themselves. People usually go to the beach to do activities such as swimming, running, having a party, going fishing, surfing, scuba…

We recently finished reporting on all the work we did with 3rd-5th grade students over the last year, and here are some highlights! 3rd to 5th grade students from Louisa Boren K-8 STEM School created a variety of projects that connected to classroom- and field-based ecological and ethnobotanical lessons. This program was part of the…