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Navigation North attended the national 1619 Project seminar series and reception at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). As an effort to document and reflect on the impact of the 400th anniversary of the first slave ship arriving to the English Colony of Virginia, the NY Times and Smithsonian's NMAAHC commemorated the collective research of this somber historical event and have released a body of curriculum for classrooms through a partnership with the Pulitzer Center Education team. It is exceptional work, give it a look!
https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum

The 1619 Project Curriculum

We wrote this post while packing up our offices a few months ago...and are just now finding time from our new locations, to post a heart-felt goodbye and thank you to our friends and colleagues in NorCal!

It's Time We Say, "Goodbye and Thank You" to Northern California While Navigation North is NOT going away, we are regretfully transitioning from our long-time Northern California home-base in Chico where it all began for our company. For our founders, and a number of our staff, Chico is the hometown where we went to college while working in coffee shops and recor...

With three big, very diverse projects pending launch in the next few months, we have little time to pull our heads up from the work and post. But, here's a little sneak peek anyways...Check out these snapshots from each new project, and consider the types of great digital education tools and platforms we have been dreaming about with our clients and get ready to be amazed!

Navigation North is proud to announce that one of our favorite projects over the last few years, the Smithsonian Learning Lab, was nominated and has now won the 2019 Webby Award for Best Educational Website! This is an amazing testament to the wonderful teams we were able to work with ranging from the Smithsonian staff who we've grown to call our friends, to the teachers and students who opened their classrooms to us for prototype testing, to the museum specialists that gave us access to all of their expertise and knowledge and our design partners @ CodeName Design. And we want to express a big "HOORAY!" to our team here at Navigation North who envisioned and wrote the initial proposal, developed the prototypes, conducted hundreds of hours of testing, analysis, design iterations, built the entire system from the ground up, and have continued to manage the ongoing support and development updates of this robust learning resource since 2014! Yay everyone involved!