Global Partners Junior - New York City Global Partners


	Global Partners Junior is an award-winning student after-school program that fosters global understanding and communication by connecting 9-12 year old New Yorkers with their international peers around the world on the internet. Students work on topics relevant to all cultures: urban society, city parks and building a sustainable city. Participants post and read each other’s messages on a secure internet forum, share digital media projects, video greetings and information about themselves and their communities. Global Partners Junior won the 2006 Sister Cities International Innovation Award for Youth & Education.

	PROGRAM UPDATES: Winter 2009 Global Partners Junior programming kicked off in October 2008 at 25 New York City locations in all five boroughs. Kids in NYC and around the world began to explore the hot-button topic of environmental conservation in their cities. 2008-09 Participating NYC Sites CAMBA KidsUnite at PS 170 CAMBA KidsUnlimited at PS 92 CAMBA KidsWorld at PS 269 Goodwill Family Learning Center Richmondtown Public Library Harlem Educational Activities Fund UAU Beacon at PS 18 NYC Housing Authority Community Centers: Bronx River Drew Hamilton Parkside Rutgers Sheepshead-Nostrand Sumner West Brighton Woodside NYC Parks & Recreation Computer Resource Centers: Alfred E. Smith Hansborough Hunts Point Jackie Robinson Sorrentino St. Mary's Sunset Park Tony Dapolito Williamsbridge Oval YMCA After-School Programs Advantage After-School at PS 139 Q Bronx Y at JHS 131 Bronx Y at IS 174 Cross Island Beacon at MS 210 An exciting discussion of habitats yielded imaginative student-created homes, and students learned about various world ecologies including the monkeys of Mumbai, local orchids in Singapore, and red squirrels in Dublin. A Global Partners Junior class in Jerusalem created a snail/human hybrid home using digital image software.

	Summer 2008 View the Summer 2008 Update (in PDF) Students gathered at Tony Dapolito Recreation center to celebrate an eventful year with Global Partners Junior. Each site exhibited a final project: an advertising campaign promoting tourism in an international city. The group from Sunset Park Recreation Center in Brooklyn performed their rap, "What's Bubblin' in Dublin." Check it out! Watch the video in low or high bandwidth Read the lyrics to "Bubblin" (in PDF ) Over 100 students celebrated their achievements this year at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center on May 21, 2008! Photo: Daniel Avila for NYC Parks & Rec.

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