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Thriving Minds is a citywide initiative that brings together organizations that believe in the power of imagination, creativity and innovation to change the way children learn. Through programs that promote creative thinking, project-based learning and experimentation, Thriving Minds is changing the way our city thinks about educating youth for the 21st century. The initiative is managed by Big Thought and includes the City of Dallas, Dallas Independent School District and more than 100 arts, cultural and community organizations that are committed to making creative learning a part of the education of every Dallas student—in and out of school. Visit www.thrivingminds.org for more information.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Day Two: Dallas Organizations



Today, everyone loaded up on the buses and headed out on their first set of field trips.  A group of about 50 students couldn’t keep their heads of out of the clouds as they explored aviation careers with American Airlines at DFW Airport.  In addition to learning about the various career options—which range from pilots and customer service reps to technical writers and firefighters and everything in between—students got up-close-and-personal with a Boeing 777, which is the largest airplane in the fleet.  They also went to the top of the control tower and toured the airport—which employs 60,000 people!—aboard the Skylink.

"Today I went to American Airlines. This was a great but scary experience. We first got our boarding tickets. Then we got on the biggest plane at the airport. I was scared of airplanes because of 9/11, but now I’m not scared."     - Corieana Davis

FOX 4 and CBS 11 came out to cover the story:

Across town, another group was busy envisioning the Dallas of the future during a tour of the CityDesign Studio.  Working alongside urban planners and architects, students learned the importance of urban design to city building, and had the chance to create their own 3-D city in the halls of City Hall.
"Today was very fun. We went to City Hall which I have never been to and learned all about the different jobs that are needed to have a successful society. They all seemed like jobs I would love, so I might have a career in that. My favorite part was when we decided where the buildings would go…"     - Eli Jefferson


Speaking of design, at South Side on Lamar students interested in fashion and entrepreneurial ventures teamed up with local business owners Abi Ferrin, Karen Manning of Millennium 2000 Gallery, Arthur Porter of Dallas Designing Dreams and Marion Marshall of AbsolutelyBlooming! to learn about fashion and other creative entrepreneurial ventures. The group toured the many artist studios at South Side and created their own custom leather works.  Special thanks to Jeff West of Jeff West Consulting who treated the group to a Texas Caribbean lunch.  

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