The Encyclopedia Show: Puberty!

The North Door

05.09.13

The Encyclopedia Show is a multi-genre show presented by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene. Each month, a subject is randomly chosen from an encyclopedia and it's up to the presenter

Confident Kids

The Griffin School creates a creative community where students feel free to be themselves

By Shelley Seale

04.29.13 | 2:02 pm

The high school experience is one that many students are impatient to get through — past it all and into adulthood. But for students at The Griffin School, it seems to be just the opposite. ...

A Central Texas Novelty

Odyssey School encourages students and parents to take risks and embrace learning disabilities

By Caitlin M. Ryan

04.17.13 | 2:34 pm

Surprisingly, Austin's best kept secret isn't an out-of-the-way taco shack or hidden swimming hole; rather, it's something in plain sight. It's a place where kids — and famili ...

Education and Inspiration

Move that bus: The Nobelity Project launches bookmobile initiative in Honduras

By Arden Ward

04.08.13 | 3:00 pm

Austin-based nonprofit The Nobelity Project may be locally rooted, but its reach extends far beyond state and national borders. Founded in 2006 by Turk Pipkin, The Nobelity Project uses a multi-pro ...

Girlstart's SpringFest

Girlstart STEM Center

04.20.13

Seeking to promote and foster science, technology, engineering, and math education amongst young girls, Girlstart will hold its SpringFest as a free chance for families to experience live demos and

Girlstart STEM Center

Empowering girls in science, tech, engineering and math

1400 W. Anderson Lane
Austin, TX 78757

The Encyclopedia Show: Mesopotamia

The North Door

04.11.13

After a long probation due to a lack of sufficient facts from the previous show, the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene has granted the Encyclopedia Show to return and continue its mission to

Dionysium at the Alamo Drafthouse

Alamo Drafthouse - Village

04.03.13 - 05.01.13

The Dionysium offers up a salon-like, intellect-friendly atmosphere in which a program of debates, lectures, declamations, theatrical presentation and music all come together for an event that will

SXSWedu

Humanizing technology: Design for social good highlighted at SXSWedu

By Alexa Garcia-Ditta

03.07.13 | 11:16 am

Jon Kolko, creative director of myedu (the visual resume-building and jobs platform for college students) and founder of the Austin Center for Design, sees interactive, digital design — that& ...

Khotso Khabele

Leading courageous and authentic global education for today's changing world

By Caitlin M. Ryan

02.11.13 | 2:00 pm

"We're supposed to be preparing these kids for their lives, not some slightly different version of our own. . .So how do you prepare children for a world that you can't really imagine ...