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The Open Future Institute Staff, pictured here before our QUESTion Project class at Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics in the Bronx, NY! Director, Program Growth and Development: Isobel King Student Coordinator: Josh Mesnik

When Holland Travels to the Bronx to QUESTion Together.

On one of the last, chilly spring mornings in New York City, excited Dutch students waited, up and ready, to finally meet face-to-face with the Bronx native pen-pals they had been writing to.  Every year, journalism students from Windeshein University […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:28-04:00June 8th, 2018|News|0 Comments

Reimagining Student Leadership in the Classroom

Students are leading the QUESTion Class! Over the course of this semester, more and more students are taking on greater responsibility in the classroom as teaching assistants. This role, however, is not new. During the QUESTion Project’s first year at […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:28-04:00December 7th, 2017|News|0 Comments

Open Future Institute Goes West to Partner with Alliance MIT

We have some big news: the Open Future Institute is expanding to California! In July we completed a very moving training with ten teachers from Alliance Marine – Innovation & Technology, a public charter school in the largest Charter Network […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:28-04:00August 10th, 2017|News|0 Comments

QUESTion Class Alumni Engage Incoming Freshmen with the Hayden Summer Bridge Program

“Your team did a wonderful job of exposing our incoming freshmen to new ways of thinking about themselves, others and the world around them through the QUESTion workshops. We are excited to see how this new cohort grows intellectually, socially […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:28-04:00August 10th, 2017|News|0 Comments

Student Ambassadors Bring the QUESTion Project to Amherst College

Passing along an early green of summer trees, we reviewed our presentation one last time. Amherst College had invited us to present the QUESTion Project to a group of alumni interested in the holistic, human side of education. Three ambassadors […]

By |2019-04-24T14:40:32-04:00August 8th, 2017|News|0 Comments

Thoughts on Interconnectedness

By Levi Lamb
Student, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics

Isolation,

such a commonly used word.
But do I feel
isolated?

How can you not,
lonely nights, tragic deaths.
Constant reminders that this is your
life.

And you shape it the way you want.

Yes,
I feel isolated,

even though there are many […]

By |2017-05-12T14:27:32-04:00May 12th, 2017|Student Blog|0 Comments