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What would it take to create the worlds most perfect island? The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project.
Teachers and students from around the world are collaborating to build the worlds most perfect island. We are call our project "The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project." Our work is based on the real island of Santa Luzia, Cabo Verde. This island is uninhabited. It is perfect for our global distance learning project. Most of our students are in high school. We are open to letting younger students participate. We just recently returned from the Cabo Verde Islands and spoke with the president, teachers, business leaders, and students. We are all in agreement and the project is now underway. We need your help. What would we have to do to create the worlds most perfect island? How would we even get started. What should we use for energy? How can we turn salt water into fresh water? How will we feed each other? How will we create jobs? Can different people from around the world get along with each other? What types of government will we create for each other? Is it possible to create an island off the West Coast of Africa where people can live in peace? You can follow the work that we have completed by visiting http://www.KidsTalkRadioUSA.com.
Side Notes:
This virtual international global learning project was started in the USA by educator Bob Barboza and his team at Super School University. Bob spoke the idea of "The Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project," at the International V Congresso on the Cabo Verde Island of Sao Vincente. Bob was then asked to present the idea to First Lady and President Pedro Pires of the Cabo Verde Islands. The US group then returned home to the US to start the project. When the project is complete Kids Talk Radio, Super School Teen TV, Super School Press and Youth World News will send a special audio and video podcasts to President Obama's "Race To The Top " education advisory team.
This project integrates Obama's STEM Program of studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We need your fresh idea?
Rudy Barbee
Darren Coil
Using such 3D models will enable broader understanding of design concepts, proposal review, space utilization, island planning all through visual communication.
Bob Barboza
Lindsay Newland Bowker 50+
Chris O'Halloran
What kind of government? Try something untried, anarcho-anything, rule by citizen's jury, rule by judges. People don't like taking orders, try leading by consent.
As for jobs, it's not a perfect island if you're forced to get a job like in America. I'd want to live in a place where money wasn't important and the threat of poverty didn't make me follow orders all day. Try to make it so people have to do little they don't want to. Give them land and let them fish and farm. Sell a cash crop for export. Tobacco, or farm expensive seafood? (don't use the tobacco yourselves of course)
People can get along, team-building exercises like games and stuff should work.
Share! Greed is the reason everywhere else isn't a perfect island.
My two cent's
Bob Barboza
STEM: High School Science Reading Challenge:
Arid Zone Geomorphology-Third Edition
Process, Form and Change in Drylands
Editor: David S. G. Thomas
ISBN 978-0-470-51908-0
Project: Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project, 2011-2012
Your challenge is to read Arid Zone Geomorphology and report on the advances that have been made in recent years in the investigation and explanation of landforms and geomorphological processes in drylands. We request that you read and report on regional case studies that will play a role in helping the Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project. We are looking for additional information about Large Scale Controls, Variability in Drylands, Surface Processes and Characteristics, The Work of Water and The Work of Wind, and the geomorphological hazards and the human impact of deserts and arid regions.
Extra credit can be earned by collecting Cabo Verde Tenth Island video and audio podcasts interviews of instructors in the school of Geography and Environmental Studies.
Interview Topics:
Climate Frameworks
Desert System Variability
Pavements and Mantles
Desert Dune Processes and Histories
Geomorphological Hazards in Drylands and Arid Zone Geomorphology
21st Century Global Warming
Additional information can be found at Cabo Verde Tenth Island Project: http://www.KidsTalkRadioUSA.com
Charles Smith
With that said I will offer a fresh idea that is backed by many years of study, a working prototype and independent verification. Yet with all this is still called impossible by the established science community.
The fresh idea is that the universe is full of energy, not a void as now taught. And that this energy can be and has been tapped to produce safe clean unlimited energy for our world. So if we are to create the perfect island then it should have the perfect energy supply systems.
I just spoke in person with the PhD chemist who independent verified the reality of an engine that was producing 107 hp at 800 rpms with no fuel, no intake, no exhaust, no heat and no other source to create the power it was producing other than that it was converting energy from the universe. He and the inventor truly did not know why the engine worked it just did. Because of a lack of a model that answered the question of how could this be possible the engine has set for over 30 years after the inventor died suddenly.
I have come to the knowledge of why this engine works from a need to understand and teach students how to build self replicating robots. Robots that can take the dirt they sit on and convert it into the parts necessary to make copies of themselves. I need to understand the physics of matter in order to make this conversion. In my studies I came across the idea of matter is made of waves in the ocean we call the universe. At first this seemed to good to be true. However, after many years of research I have come to understand that the wave model best fits the true nature of the universe and explains how it all works. Including how and why this impossible engine is real.
You truly cannot put new wine into old bottles. This perfect island project may be our only opportunity to bring about change.
Chris O'Halloran
Bob Barboza
Michael Morera
Chris O'Halloran
EDIT: Shoot, I just now realized you aren't actually going over there and camping out! Still it sounds like a fun project. I hope your students learn a lot. I visited your website, must be a challenge to do this by correspondence.