Pre-Expedition Workshop and Work Back Home - April 2023
In order to prepare for all the awesomeness and demands of being a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow (GTF), all 50 of us convened on the National Geographic Headquarters in Washington DC in April 2023. One catch was that we would not be able to publicly announce our GTF status until after the workshop, leaving me to get creative on how I prepped my students for the announcement. Time for us to become covert agents of Viper Intelligence Agency!
While I was out for a couple of days, Ms. Alee introduced Mission: Terima Kasih (Indonesian for thank you). The backstory was that we were all members of the Viper Intelligence Agency, working on intel to assist a covert agent to be named in the field. The agent would be acting as a teacher traveling to Indonesia and Singapore to explore for their students, answering questions and running experiments they designed. The students worked in agent groups to complete the intel dossier, which Ms. Alee designed to look EPIC.
Check out some of their dossiers and backstories they students developed while I was gone. From fake degrees to fictional pets and beyond, these agents stepped up and created quite a story for the field agent.
The original plan was to have all agents present their work, then, in a mic drop moment, announce the GTF. However, like all best laid plans, it took another 2 weeks before I could announce, making it the slowest mic drop ever! The agents were still stoked though!
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