As part of our summer internship program, our high school QUESTion Ambassadors facilitated two QUESTion Community Labs with several dozen students from the Boys’ Club of New York (ISP Summer Prep Program) and the Central Park Conservancy Student Internship Team. […]
We recently reached our youngest group of QUESTioners, ever! And what we found couldn’t be more eye-opening.
When we were first asked to engage a room full of seventy 5th graders at Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, we didn’t know what to expect; […]
Five of our star QUESTion Student Ambassadors came together last week to facilitate a 3-hour workshop for their peers at Global Kids, a nonprofit organization that provides global education and leadership development programs for NYC-based youth.
This was one of our first student-led workshops, and we are […]
As our QUESTion alumni family grows, so do our program offerings. We’ve launched our first-ever afterschool QUESTion Ambassador Program for students who have taken the Course and wish to stay involved. Their voices are reaching beyond the classroom as they take on more leadership […]
A new semester is underway at our model school, Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics. Now in our second year of partnership, a team of newly trained BCSM teachers have become QUESTion Facilitators and stand by our side, ready to […]
At Open Future Institute Headquarters, we have an international hive this Summer…from India to Egypt, to the Bronx….we are so happy to have with us 13 interns, in addition to our staff. Srikanth who is postgraduating at Pace University and […]
We successfully concluded our first year at the Bronx Center of Science and Math this past June. We ran three daily elective classes, and the impact on the students, as we can see from our self-assessment data, has been beyond […]
Gerard Senehi, Founder of Open Future Institute, was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor last week.
NECO, the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, sponsors the award, which is presented annually to American citizens who have distinguished themselves within their own ethnic […]
Our Student Coordinator, Josh, just returned from giving a TED Talk at the TEDxFSU conference at Florida State University. In his talk he spoke about why big questions matter in education, and how his own explorations into big questions allowed him to develop […]
We are thrilled to announce our first international chapter in the Netherlands! Led by our dear friends Florence Fabbricotti and Chris Hollanders with an Advisory Board of three (Susanne de Neeve, Bas de Jong and Niels Vierling), the Dutch office […]
