Our future in business in the Tweet of the day (10/2/14)

Sent my son @joinGEN_Z: 75 HS kids with LivingSocial Co-founder Tim O'Shaughnessy! @LivingSocial @1776dc @KogodBiz pic.twitter.com/XTUPZrqjcK

— Doug Francis (@dougfrancis) September 22, 2014

Sing, Talk & Read at the @dcpl STAR Family Festival Sept. 13

The Saturday, September 13, 11:00 am STAR Family Festival: Sing, Talk & Read takes place at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St NW).

The event features lots of fun and educational activities including:

• Fun activities, crafts and games for children
• Free children's books
• Live entertainment by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer and drummer Jali-D
• Safety, health and education resources for your child
• Workshops for parents to support your child's early learning
• Door prizes including $200 gift baskets and other giveaways
• Face painting
• Photo opportunities with costumed characters including Clifford the Big Red Dog (super yay!!)

Other event features are free lunch, special guest appearances from WKYS FM Shorty de Prince and Angie Ange.

More information is available by calling DC Public Library, (202) 727-0321.

Learning about Labor Day

@OneCityYouth Brave Girl by Michelle Markel, Work: An Occupational ABC by Kellen Hatanaka, Harvesting Hope by Kathleen Krull and many more..

— P&P Kids and Teens (@KidsandProse) August 24, 2014

And for more fun and learning, take the Union Plus Labor Day Quiz. Even if the kids in your family or program don't know the correct answers, the quiz offers some teaching moments!

UDC program brought out the inner scientists in teens

Over here at One City Youth, we're jealous of the young folks who participated in UDC's 2014 Summer Bridge Program in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences program. Why? Well, let's start with the fact the youth participants got to work outside in water, dirt and with plants. Field work was performed in Rock Creek Park, the UDC Van Ness Campus and the Muirkirk Agricultural Research Farm in Beltsville, MD.

Next, the youth had the opportunity to learn how to use very cool equipment. Finally, they got to learn all kinds of useful science stuff. And by stuff we mean environmental computing, cloud computing, sustainability, water quality, climate change, engineering design and mobile technologies.

2014 Summer Bridge STEM Course Concludes walks readers through the highlights of the program. Perhaps the most interesting part of the summer was the work the young people did on their capstone projects.

The projects were:

1. Nathnael Eshetu and Heran Tatek: Solar Power for Food, Energy and Water (evaluating the potential benefit of photovoltaic power at Muirkirk Farm
2. Lataija Gilmore, Kevon Johnson and Semale Stafford: Orthophosphate Analysis in soil
3. Niles Townsend and Joel Crooms-Porter: Aquaponics System: Nutrient Cycle (water difference in aquaponic tanks)
4. Courtney George, Amen Hailu and Sofia Cisneros: Potomac River vs. Rock Creek River Quality

The post is an interesting read and you'll learn about all the cool things College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences does with students, faculty and the community for the benefit of us all.

More pictures from the program, on Facebook.