Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 3): Sending Biodegradable Balloons to Space - Awesome Learning
Watch the "SF Brightworks sends a balloon to space!" video here first:
• SF Brightworks sends a balloon to space!
Gever Tulley (http://gevertulley.com/) is one of my favourite people leading important changes for our children's education. Gever wrote a book called "50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)", he started the Tinkering School, he is the creator of Tinkering Labs - educational kits that you receive in the mail, and he is the Founder of Brightworks - an amazing school in San Francisco.
The kids in my Upstanders Academy and I are so honoured that we were able to interview Gever. This is the third clip from our 40 minute interview. Gever tells us more about the awesome experiment he did with his Tinkerers where they sent a balloon up to space. We learned that he uses biodegradable balloons - which leads me to ask why we have the terrible, non-biodegradable balloons when an alternative exists - his answer leads me to think we need to collectively be better humans! Then we learn that helium is a finite, non-renewable resource - which leads me to state that maybe we should not be using it for birthday balloons, and again leads me to think we could all do better to save our planet. I love, love, love this clip and all the great learning we did.
I love everything that Gever does. Imagine what all our amazing children would be able to achieve if each of them got to experience the type of learning opportunities that Gever provides? That is the world that I want to help build. I hope that you feel as inspired as I do after listening to Gever.
Here is a list of all six clips from the interview:
Part One - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 1): Mayb...
Part Two - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 2): Buil...
Part Three - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 3): Send...
Part Four - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 4): More...
Part Five - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 5): Do T...
Part Six - • Interview with Gever Tulley (Part 6): Powe...
Filmed in June 2020.