SUBMITTED BY Kit-Kat
May 23, 2006 — "Classroom Encounters with Global Change Scientists" is the brainchild of the series' producer and co-director, Rita Chang. Before becoming an earth science teacher at Wellesley High School, Ms. Chang spent twenty years as an executive and entrepreneur in the health care delivery field, starting up two companies and serving as their chief executive officer. In her last position, Ms. Chang was Executive Director for the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School where she met and worked with world renowned scientists in the global change field.
The "look" and "feel" of the film series, DVDs and website for "Classroom Encounters with Global Change Scientists" belongs to independent filmmaker, Alan Fine. Not only did he co-produce/direct and edit the shoots, bringing a film makers professionalism to the series from the get-go, he also authored the DVDs' interactivity, so the "Snowball Earth" DVD has a chapter stop for each topic, question and answer for easy teacher/student/viewer access.
Currently they are hard at work finishing up the informative Hurricanes film featuring Dr. Kerry Emanuel of MIT, one of the world's leading experts on hurricanes, so stay tuned for more information regarding that!
You can check out the current DVD's and if you are in the Boston area end of June, you can check out Classroom Encounters in the great IMAX out there! Click on the links below to learn more!
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