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Brazilian Education – Week 4 – Class Notes

UnknownThis week we had a wonderful talk by Kathryn Moeller, Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison on “The Logic and Consequences of U.S. Transnational Corporate Funding of Girls’ Education in Brazil”

She talks about Nike’s program called “The Girl Effect” which attempted to help underprivileged girls, and then suddenly stopped the program… and it seemed like they just wanted to tell these girls  not to get pregnant, so that they could be used in the labor market…

The initiative is now a standalone program that has no more ties with Nike… here’s the very well polished video they came up with to get some initial attention and funding:

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Engineering Education – Week 2.1 – Class Notes

Final group is set with Camila and James. Rodrigo dropped the course unfortunately. Had our co-teacher Chris Bennett, expert in game design lead the intro session of the “core loop” as we did in the Fall quarter pop-up session.

Here are a couple of interesting links about CoreLoops:


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We played a very interesting game called ‘Cat On Yer Head‘ where one person was was the ‘cat’ and another was the ‘mouse’. Each person had to repeatedly say cat or mouse aloud. You can transfer the cat or mouse by tapping on someonelses shoulders. The aim is to catch the mouse. 

Talked about the MDA+Outcomes Approach:IMG_2597

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Grand finalle by Candace:IMG_2599