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For two years, from June 3 1999 through 2001, while I was the Executive Director at the Youth Science Institute, I was asked to write a weekly column for a local newspaper called EAST The Neighborhood Voice, that was freely distributed throughout eastern San Jose from Milpitas in the north to Evergreen in the south. It was a good opportunity to focus on the organization which was founded on the Eastside more than 45 years earlier to provide natural science education for children. The articles are posted here.

Getting in touch with nature in Alum Rock Park

I first learned about the Youth Science Institute (YSI) in 1990 when I became its Director of Operations. As I drove into Alum Rock Park for the first time (I had never been there even though I had lived in … Continue reading

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