News
Shape NC and POD at the Smart Start Conference
The 2012 National Smart Start Conference
The Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, NC will host the Smart Start Confernece April 30 through May 3. Two Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) projects will be represented.
Rocking Earth Day Rock Decorating Contest
Rocking Earth Day
NC Triangle area families and Bright Horizons childcare centers are participating in this rock decorating contest to celebrate Earth Day 2012.
Events
9th Annual Natural Learning Design Institute
Design for Early Childhood: Health, Play and Learning
NC Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC
The 9th Annual Design Institute featured presentations by experts in safety, policy, and early childhood education combined with outdoor hands-on activities. The program offered innovative ideas and concepts for participants to implement back home.
Growing In Place Symposium 2012
Design for Children, Families, and Nature in the City
Location: Marbles Kids Museum
201 East Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
2012 Theme: Parks, Pathways, and Meaningful Destinations
More and more people are living in cities. To encourage families to invest in urban domestic life, an infrastructure of attractive, traffic-protected routes is required to connect urban neighborhoods to meaningful destinations. Join us at this year's symposium focused on urban neighborhood design for children and families and the foundation it provides for health, well-being, and resource conservation in the 21st century.
