The ArtScience teens are continuing to work through the summer, using their funding to advance their projects and to prepare an exhibition at Cloud Place for the beginning of the 2010-2011 Boston ArtScience Prize. Many of the teens have very busy schedules, but none more than Simona Clausnitzer, a member of one of the highest placing groups, Healthy Brains, Healthy Bodies. Simona was her class valedictorian, and as she works through the summer on HB2, she is also preparing for college.
Le Whif continues to storm the U.S. shores, garnering tons of press coverage over the last couple months. Cosmo took notice, and here's just a couple of the more extensive write-ups: Java Times Cafe & The Paly Voice.
Final Presentations took place on April 28th at The Idea Translation Lab @ Cloud Place, with Mayor Menino, David and Aurélie Edwards, Boston Public School Superintendent Dr. Carol Johnson and many others in attendance. The event was a huge success, and the winning team was announced! Coach Master (Kanny Moussignac, Justin Crespo Ortiz, & Victoria Strojwas) have won the inaugural Boston 100k ArtScience Innovation Prize and are Paris-bound! Read all about it in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald and Boston Metro, and check out this short video about the event from TheStreet.com. All 14 teams that presented received some level of funding, and many will work into the summer on their projects. Therapy Theater, Healthy Brains Healthy Bodies (HB2), Nano Voice (NaVo), Mood Me Content, and World of Playcraft were in the second highest placing tier, the Sprinter Idea Groups. And our Champion level Idea Groups were Emuse Me, Argument Resolution Patch (ARP), Keep A Healthy Thought Everyday (KAHTE), Fourth Wall, Mind Monastery, Universal Unity, Brainwave Café, and Think Wave.
On the heals of the rousing success of Semi-Final Presentations on March 12th, the Jury has submitted feedback and questions to the ArtScience teens. On April 16th, the teens will respond to the Jury's questions for the second phase of judging. The top winners will be announced at Final Presentations on April 28th.
Meanwhile, Le Whif has appeared on The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and The Today Show!
On March 1st, National Public Radio's staple program All Things Considered let their listeners in on the world's first and favorite chocolate inhalant, Le Whif. The episode containing the piece aired at 4pm locally on Boston's NPR affiliate WBUR, and varying times nationally. You can listen to the four-minute piece here.
Semi-final presentations on Friday, March 12th! This is the perhaps the most important date on the calendar for the ArtScience 100k teens. Each seed idea is presenting to the Jury for the first time, an event that will begin the process of choosing the prize winners as the year winds down.
On the 3rd of February all artscience teens are invited to attend guest speaker Sean Dean's talk. Mr. Dean is a patent lawyer with Fish & Richardson P.C. and will speak about intellectual property, answering pertinent questions for the teens. The talk is during class hours and all are invited to attend.
Mid-month, during BPS Winter Break, Teaching Artist Matt Templeton and his wife Kate Templeton, a PHD candidate and writing instructor at the university level, are offering an intensive Communications Workshop for all teens that sign up. Their class runs Tuesday-Friday, Feb.16-19, daily from 12:30pm-5:30pm; please RSVP to Andrew Churchman.
Later in the month, on Thursday, February 25th, Harvard Professor Marie Danziger, Director of the Communications program at the Kennedy School, will talk to the teens about effective public speaking. The talk begins at normal class time, 4pm, and all are invited to attend.
Boston 100k ArtScience Prize and Cloud Place founder David Edwards now has a site that collects all of his amazing projects, and ArtScience Labs also launched an exciting new web presence. Edwards spoke with the Boston Phoenix about Le Whif, helping to kick off the American release of everyone's favorite chocolate inhalant. You can now whif Coffee from a completely biodegradable new design!
On December 15th & 18th, the Boston 100k ArtScience teens unveiled their Seed Ideas for the first time to the public at Cloud Place. Three days later, the teens open house art exhibition followed. Check out our Flickr page for snapshots of the two events.
On September 21, 2009 hundreds of teens from all over the city of Boston helped us get the first annual ArtScience Prize off to a strong start. After hearing about the program firsthand from ArtScience Prize creator David Edwards and the Cloud Foundation's staff of 18 talented mentors and teaching artists, 200 teens signed up to take part in the ArtScience Prize. Program participants were inspired to take on the challenge of choosing to develop one of 24 unique seed ideas, and enthusiastically signed up to participate in one of 6 innovative studio classes in the arts, performance, and design. When classes begin at Cloud Place on October 5th, teens representing nearly half of all public high schools in Boston will come together to passionately pursue their ideas and artistic visions.
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