At Peoplemov.in, you get an instant, visceral sense of the nature and diversity of the groups of people who flow into and out of every country in the world. It uses open source data from the World Bank and U.S. Census, among others.
It's one thing to read a list of numbers; it's another to see them.
This incredible video was created by Josh Pennock and Molly Madden, who created it to help promote the Dollars for Scholars project. (The music was changed from the original version to avoid copyright infringement.) What better way to use our technology?
This year, our freshmen raised over $3,000 to provide a high school education for students in Liberia -- enough for 23 semester-long scholarships at the Bishop Juwle High School. So, now 6 students will have a full high school education, who would have otherwise been denied it.
It all started last year, when Angie Mason had her English 9 students correspond (via real, paper letters) with students at Bishop Juwle; they continued their engagement by raising money to support the school. Last year, her students contributed enough funds to build a library. But that was just the beginning.
