Global Campus Springfield Raises $400.00 for Flood Relief

We love our neighbors and felt compelled to help those who suffered as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. We are blessed and wanted to share our blessings. We recently held a raffle and raised $400.00 which is being divided between the Springfield Family Center and Black River Good Neighbors. We also held a food drive. Thank you to everyone who donated prizes or bought raffle tickets. Water can never wash away love!

Global Campus Springfield participants

The Famous Pyramids of Egypt!

I was very excited to share my class on the Pyramids of Egypt. I had a great turnout for my class! I brought in a cardboard model of a pyramid, a poster, handouts, and little cards with images and facts on them. We attempted to mummify Andreas with paper towels, but they kept coming apart. He won't be preserved all that long. I asked the question to my students, "Can anyone guess how high the Khufu pyramid, the highest pyramid in Egypt is?" There is a new pyramid that was just discovered under the ocean off the coast of Asia.

- Robin, GC Bradford Faculty

Finbar Teaches About Airplanes and Gliders!

Global Campus Moretown was alive on friday afternoon! There were over forty people that attended Finbar's incredibly successful class on airplanes. At the farmhouse, Finbar began his class by playing a speech he had programmed into his talking device, sharing his passion for airplanes and airports. He showed a video clip of him flying a friend's Cessna out of Berlin Airport as well as two clips of weather research airplanes flying into hurricanes. He then invited us to carpool to Warren airport where we all marveled at the airplanes and gliders taking off and landing. Finbar invited Mark, from Sugarbush Soaring, to share his airplane and glider wisdom with us. It was a beautiful afternoon for a beautiful class. Fantastic!

GC Participants: Leaders in their Campus and their Communities

As Global Campus participants all over Vermont and New Hampshire grow through the process of engaging with their campus, they encourage each other to take on more responsibility and leadership. "It's our campus," we always say! Robin, a teaching faculty at GC Bradford decided that the local library would be a good place to spread the word in the community about her campus so she presented to the librarian about GC Bradford. Thanks to her efforts the campus has been invited by the library to have a display of our Fall Term Catalogs for community members to pick up, learn more about our campus, and attend our classes. Rena, a faculty participant at GC Randolph thought it would be great to offer her Baseball Bingo class at MENIG, an assisted living facility associated with Gifford Hospital in Randolph, so she went and talked to the MENIG coordinator and successfully secured both a venue and a very excited class audience there! These are just a few of the countless examples of campus participants taking charge and driving the growth and development of THEIR Global Campuses. Keep up the great work!

GC Moretown Celebrates a Year of Mud!

In the fall of 2010, Neil, a faculty member at Global Campus Moretown, decided he wanted to teach a class on how to build an outdoor oven. This idea sparked a year long adventure at our campus as Neil guided us through the process of constructing our very own outdoor oven made of cob, a mixture of clay, sand, and straw. It was a challenge for some participants who don't enjoy getting dirty, but just about everyone got their feet muddy mixing the cob and enjoyed the cool mud between their toes! We just finished our oven a few weeks ago and celebrated the process at our annual cider pressing event, baking pizzas to perfection in the beautiful oven for the community to enjoy! Neil is so proud of his oven, congratulations Neil!