Project Development / Meeting with our Advisors

Soon after learning that we would be receiving funding from the Penny White Project Fund - a few things became very clear.  One, we had a ton of work in front of us to develop this project beyond a concept and into real terms.  We began identifying various stakeholders in Greenland - politicians, mining corporations, scientists, community activists - and we started developing questions specific to each agency.  Two, we needed to raise more funds to actually make this happen.  The Penny White award is our spring board - but it will only cover the costs of flights.  So we've been setting up a kickstarter page (which will be going live soon - exciting).  Finally, we need to talk with our project advisors... immediately!

By the way, our advisors are pretty incredible.  Professor Paul Nakazawa is our internal advisor from the Graduate School of Design, and we have 2 external advisors from the Kennedy School of Government on board as well - Professor Henry Lee and Professor David Keith.  

(Take a moment to look them up - pretty remarkable individuals).

So I jumped on a flight back to Boston and Will and I had a frantic 3 days of work on the project.  We met with our advisors, got really great feedback, suggestions, and criticism - and - shot an introductory video for our kickstarter page (more on that later).  Take a look at a few meeting photos.

Meeting with Prof. Paul Nakazawa and Prof. David Keith

Meeting with Prof. Henry Lee