ADK Youth Climate Summit
I drove 5 hours to go to the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit, which was being hosted by The Wild Center. It was a good chance to see some people that I hadn't seen in a while, and also a great learning experience. I was there to volunteer, and also got to attend some workshops. Because the volunteering parts were... more boring, here are the fun parts of my day!
I arrived a little late, so the first little section thing had already started. It was the classic climate change presentation, one that I had seen presented twice before, by Wild Center employees. The presenter was Curt Stager, who is a professor over at St. Pauls College. Mixed in with his super sciencey climate change talk was this guy, Larry Montague, who raps about climate change. He was super talented and really entertaining!
Then workshops started. I attended one about climate change podcasts, one from the rap guy, and one about racism in the food system. None of them were particularly amazing, although the podcast one had some interesting things about marketing. I should've gone to the workshop about project planning and development instead of the rapper. It would have been more useful and educational.
Also, there was another lecture by this woman Lauren, who basically just told us her entire life story. There were baby pictures and pictures of teenage her with a llama to go along with it. It was super boring, but I was sat on the floor next to a girl with bright blue hair and cool dr martens, who was sipping on tea out of a ball jar and doodling, which kind of made up for it in a weird way.
I got the chance to reconnect with a few of my old coworkers, and also Leanne and Michael, who were technically my bosses (but actually my ADK parents). Leanne got married, and it was great to hear about her wedding. We also had a great chat about high school, and I
am still a little smiley from it. And I received a high five from Michael!
Overall, it wasn't a super educational day, but I am really glad I went anyway. My heart was very happy.
I arrived a little late, so the first little section thing had already started. It was the classic climate change presentation, one that I had seen presented twice before, by Wild Center employees. The presenter was Curt Stager, who is a professor over at St. Pauls College. Mixed in with his super sciencey climate change talk was this guy, Larry Montague, who raps about climate change. He was super talented and really entertaining!
Then workshops started. I attended one about climate change podcasts, one from the rap guy, and one about racism in the food system. None of them were particularly amazing, although the podcast one had some interesting things about marketing. I should've gone to the workshop about project planning and development instead of the rapper. It would have been more useful and educational.
Also, there was another lecture by this woman Lauren, who basically just told us her entire life story. There were baby pictures and pictures of teenage her with a llama to go along with it. It was super boring, but I was sat on the floor next to a girl with bright blue hair and cool dr martens, who was sipping on tea out of a ball jar and doodling, which kind of made up for it in a weird way.
I got the chance to reconnect with a few of my old coworkers, and also Leanne and Michael, who were technically my bosses (but actually my ADK parents). Leanne got married, and it was great to hear about her wedding. We also had a great chat about high school, and I
am still a little smiley from it. And I received a high five from Michael!
Overall, it wasn't a super educational day, but I am really glad I went anyway. My heart was very happy.
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