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The Gingerbread Man Fable STEM Challenge

Get ready to mix, bake, and build with "The Gingerbread Man Fable STEM Activity." This STEM Challenge takes the classic tale of the speedy Gingerbread Man and adds a sprinkle of STEM magic. So, put on your chef hats, grab your building blocks, and let's embark on a delicious and creative adventure!

This STEM Challenge combines the enchantment of fables with the excitement of STEM education, fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity.

It’s ideal for elementary classrooms and offers a fun, innovative way to explore the classic fable of The Gingerbread Man while enhancing literacy and STEM skills.

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pipe cleaners

aluminum foil

popsicle sticks

tub of water

Gingerbread Man printable (included) with a binder clip

a version of The Gingerbread Man (optional)

In the fable, The Gingerbread Man , the Gingerbread Man is outsmarted by the fox. In this fable STEM activity, students are challenged to build a boat for the Gingerbread Man to safely get across the river.

After they have completed the challenge, there is a writing extension for students to write a continuation of the story of The Gingerbread Man, where the Gingerbread Man escapes on the boat your students created.

Download this STEM Challenge and stimulate your students’ problem-solving skills. From baking and decorating gingerbread cookies to designing clever escape routes, it combines the magic of storytelling with the excitement of STEM.

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The Gingerbread Man Fairy Tale STEAM

Project Name: The “Gingerbread Man” Fairy Tale STEAM

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Number of Students: 17

Indiana Standards project aligns with:

K.RL.2.3 Identify important elements of the text (e.g.,characters, settings, or events).

K.RL.4.2: With support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

(E)K-2.E.1: Pose questions, make observations, and obtain information about a situation people want to change. Use this data to define a simple problem that can be solved through the construction of a new or improved object or tool.

K.G.3 Model shapes in the world by composing shapes from objects (e.g., sticks and clay balls), and drawing shapes.

K.G.1 Describe the positions of objects and geometric shapes in space using the terms inside, outside, between, above, below, near, far, under, over, up, down, behind, in front of, next to, to the left of, and to the right of.

List of Supplies

Any version of the “Gingerbread” story and The Gingerbread Man by Karen Schmidt.

Chenille stems

popsicle sticks

design plan from fairy tale kit for STEM journaling

Puppet theater to act out the story (optional)

puppets (to learn story elements)

story wands and a story glove with characters included (from STEAM kit)

iPad or iPhone to record rafts and to test them to see if the Gingerbread Man made it across the water without getting wet.

Gingerbread cookies (optional) for decorating and to graph which part they ate first and to see if the cookie dissolves/or sinks/floats in cold/hot water.

Gingerbread Man Position Activity PowerPoint by Tammy Williams on TPT website (optional).

Lesson Plan

Lesson objectives:

Students will be able to identify important elements of the text (e.g.,characters, settings, or events).

Students will be able to compare and contrast experiences of characters in familiar stories.

Students will be able to collaborate to solve a problem.

Students will be able to model shapes by composing shapes from objects when building their gingerbread rafts/models.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: The kindergarten students worked with the “Gingerbread Man” fairy tale STEM kit from Lakeshore Learning Store. If they needed extra help; they were able to work in small groups and collaborate as a team. Students were given “voice and choice” when designing their rafts/models. As an extension piece, students could create houses for their Gingerbread characters. My students also designed favorite character hats to use when retelling and comparing/contrasting the gingerbread stories.

ENGAGEMENT: The teacher will capture the students’ attention by bringing out the story, “ The Gingerbread Man” by Paul Galdone. Students will first take a “picture walk” of the book. The students will “think/pair/share” and make predictions of the book. Next, the teacher will read the story, but not reveal the ending. The teacher will then present the STEM challenge, which is; “Can you design a way for the Gingerbread Man to safely cross the river?” If you are able to collaborate with another class, then they can read the story and model how to retell using the puppets from the Lakeshore kit or they can make their own.

EXPLORATION: Students will work independently at their small group tables, but are allowed to collaborate to solve the problem/STEM challenge.

Create (Engineering Piece): Students create models of their plans using only the materials provided. I also had “real-world” photos showing different ways to cross a river. I showed the photos and encouraged new vocabulary words. Some of these photos and vocabulary words included: kayaks, canoes, rafts, floats, upstream, downstream, buoyancy, structure, stability, weight, gravity, and bridges.

The students will first plan their design and then try to design a way for the Gingerbread Man to safely cross the river without getting wet by using materials the teacher has given them. The students will plan a design in their journals/or “Gingerbread Man” planning sheet included in the kit. Students fill out the “planning section” first before they create their model. When finished, they test their design and then check to see if it worked or not. If it did not work, then they can go back and try again. However, if it did work, they can fill out the last half of the planning sheet with their working design and check that it did work. If you have early finishers, then students can create houses for their gingerbread man, decorate gingerbread cookies, create hats/puppets used for retelling and to boost creative expression. In addition, a small group of students worked with the teacher to use the materials included in this kit to build a raft. Each group can take turns after properly sanitizing the materials.

After allowing students the opportunity and the time to explore independently, the teacher will act as a guide and facilitate questions, such as “What was the most challenging problem to solve when you built your model?” “What was it made of?” “How could you improve your design?” Once you read the story and another version of it, then the teacher can ask, “Could this story happen in real life?” “Why or Why not?” “Can you create a different ending for the story?” “What is the same/different?”

EXPLANATION: Collaborate with students to discuss what happened and if their model worked or not. If not, they can go back and re-try. I did have a few students that had to try again and the other students in their group were very supportive.

Ask students, “How did your final design differ from your first design?” “What was the problem?” “Did you solve the problem?” “Why or Why not?” “What are some other ways you could help the Gingerbread Man cross the river?”

For an extension, the students could compare their designs to other students’ successful designs and compare piece counts. “Who used the most/fewest pieces?” “How was that solution different?”

Another extension might be to find another version of the story about the Gingerbread Man (I listed one above). The teacher will read the story and the students can compare/contrast it to the story included in this kit. They will then share which version of the story they like better and why.

Last, students can explore the internet to find pictures of different kinds of bridges or rafts. They will identify differences and discuss how they are created.

ELABORATION:

Students will collaborate to reflect on their creations, the design process, which materials were sturdier and which materials did not work as well. Students will be able to compare/contrast various versions of the same fairy tale and also possibly compare/contrast a new fairy tale.

EVALUATION:

Students tested their plans to see if they worked or not. If it did not work, then they would try again!

Students were encouraged to document their designs either in their “STEM journal” or on their “Kids Doodle Pro app” on their iPad.

Students will practice important elements of the text by creating a puppet show that showcases the STEM challenge and highlights all of the key elements of the text.. Students will also practice and be able to demonstrate the position words listed in the standard above.

Students will be able to answer the following questions correctly: 1.) “Who is one character in this story?” 2.) “What is the setting in this story?” and 3.) “What happens in this story?”

TEACHER TESTIMONIES: (Shannon Shrader, Paula Ritenour):

“ I loved being able to purchase not only the follow-up “STEAM kit 2” from The Lakeshore Learning Store, but also the “STEM-Tivity Class Kits” and the “Excellerations Translucent Bricks” from the Really Good Stuff website with the grant money from “TechPoint Foundation for Youth.” Thank you so much for allowing me to bring high quality STEM projects to not only my students, but to other students in other grade levels as well! To expand on this, I have testimony from Paula Ritenour’s students in Mrs. Ritenour's Honors Hybrid Grades 7/8 class. “The students recalled having experienced being Kindergarten STEM buddies while fourth graders. As a reflection piece that ties in with their having read "A Diary of Anne Frank" play and learning how Anne used her journal to cite evidence as well as maintain a central theme to the conflict in her world, students often were asked to respond in a journal format throughout the unit (Paula Ritenour).

” In addition, Mrs. Ritenour noted that, “when comparing and contrasting various traditions around the time of Christmas, one tradition read included a poinsettia. Students reflected on how plants change due to seasons and as a result of the environment. So as a "throwback" opportunity to their earlier experiences in reading truly being enhanced by STEM time with kinders, they discovered the Plant STEM kit to gain evidence for a particular snippet of writing. Understanding various text structures, was another invitation to write a thank you for the wonderful influence TechPoint has offered, giving the current middle schoolers a real High Quality PBL with which to practice a literacy based activity within the real world.”

8 RN 2.2 Central Idea and Summaries

8 RN 3.2 Text/Paragraph Structure

7 RN 2.1 Cite Evidence

Credit for Gingerbread lesson plan, video, and Teacher Testimony: Shannon Shrader- Taylor Elementary School- Kokomo, Indiana

Credit for Teacher Testimony for Mrs. Ritenour’s Honors Hybrid Grades ⅞ grade class: Paula Ritenour -TaylorMiddle School - Kokomo, Indiana

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Gingerbread Man Problem Solving STEM Kit

Kim Graham, First Grade — Kids use STEM skills to help the Gingerbread Man! Perfect for building problem-solving skills, the kit includes a story card that presents a dilemma for kids to solve

Children have to plan, create and test solutions to get the Gingerbread Man across a river!

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Kids use STEM skills to help the Gingerbread Man! Perfect for building problem-solving skills, the kit includes a story card that presents a dilemma for kids to solve. Children have to plan, create and test solutions to get the Gingerbread Man across a river. The kit comes with a STEM-focused story card, 28 plastic builders, 4 figures, rubber bands, a 10 3/4" x 15" water tray, plus student & teacher cards with lesson plans and full support.

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Make a coin go head over heels in two directions at once, spin at over 1,000 revolutions a minute, walk a tightrope and somersault on a bridge! Balance four coins on the rim of a teacup, too! Learn to build levitating pyramids, rocket launchers, airplanes, rotating earrings, nodding birds and floating balloons. The activity booklet contains 44 projects.

Marble Circuit Game

It’s the multi-directional marble maze with 64 puzzling challenges! Choose a card to see your puzzle and place the multi-directional tiles on the board. Release the steel marbles to see if you land your targets. If you’re off base, move the tiles until your marble circuits deliver a picture-perfect landing! It’s logic, strategy and a brain game all in one!

Pendulonium

Physics fundamentals become playtime fun! Can you propel the balls into goal cups with the help of an adjustable pendulum? Engineering, problem solving, and critical thinking skills will be needed as you explore early physics concepts like force and momentum in search of the ideal solution. The pendulum is completely kid-powered, so it helps build hand-eye coordination and muscle control. The booklet is filled with easy-to-build challenges, which ramp up in difficulty to encourage leveled play and continued development.

Perplexus Original

Perplexus Original is a bendy, trendy, can’t-put-it-down challenge! Roll the ball to one of the starting points. If you can’t find them… put Perplexus down and slowly back away! Flip, twist and spin Perplexus to move the ball along the numbered path. When you fall off the track, cuz it’s gonna happen, just start over! If you make it to the end, pat yourself on the back, then try racing your friends on the clock! Complete all four Perplexus puzzles to become a Master!

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Learn over 50 vocabulary words in one game! Promotes vocabulary development, improves recognition and matching, and increases reading speed. Each plastic chip has three vocabulary words or pictures; just match the words with their corresponding pictures!

Write & Wipe Tracing Letters

Children can practice writing with these colorful, oversized uppercase and lowercase letters. Trace on the dotted line with a dry-erase marker, then wipe clean to practice again!

Hardwood Blocks

Blocks help develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination for all ages, while also providing an opportunity to teach colors, shapes and numbers. They are also a chance to use imagination and practice sharing and cooperation.

Jumbo Gears

Create a winding gear train, a cranking tower with a fan or any wacky interlocking contraption you can imagine! Build tall, build wide … Or both! The possibilities are endless! Supports STEM by encouraging creativity, design, critical thinking, problem solving and step-by-step construction.

Foam Peg Board Set

Play with pegs and a pegboard! Create patterns with the colors, stack them into towers, and help develop fine motor skills while you build. When you’re done, knock them over and try again!

Bristle 3D Building Blocks

Bristle 3D Blocks are perfect for building fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, while stimulating curious minds. They are crafted with soft, rubbery ‘bristles’, allowing children to easily connect pieces together at any angle. This brightly colored 126-piece set provides endless building possibilities to fuel kids’ imaginations and creative juices. It also includes 16 rolling wheels that add motion to objects–build an airplane, car, dump trucks, robot and other creations!

Mathlink Cubes

This set pairs 100 cubes with 30 learning challenges that make math lessons fun. Using the colorful cubes as a handy visual aid, little learners can learn addition and subtraction, practice sequencing through color and shape recognition, and experience perspective through 3-D building challenges. They also double as fun building toys! MathLink Cubes link together on all sides of each cube, are easy for little hands to snap together and twist apart, and are ideal for counting to 100 by ones and tens, grouping, and one-to-one correspondence.

Mini Motor Math

Count your way to the finish line! These colorful cars are ready to rev their engines for early math learning fun. Attach the finish line to the track numbered 1-10 for a high-octane counting race up to 10, or push it into overdrive by racing to 20! Start your engines to learn counting 1-20, early addition, number sequencing, patterning, and more!

Monkey Balance

This game teaches basic counting and beginning math skills and encourages retention through stimulating multi-level math games. Monkey Balance is easy to learn so everyone can start playing instantly.

Xyloba Piccolino

Xyloba is a creative marble run for building and composing at the same time. It develops motor function and spatial imagination, and facilitates a creative approach to music. You can build marble runs that are different every time and four interchangeable sound modules produce simple melodies and rhythms. The fun really begins when, in addition to building, kids start composing.

Coding Critters

Learning to code has never been simpler with Ranger & Zip to help teach along the way! Follow their storybook or make up your own story for multiple ways to code and have fun. You can also feed, pet, and take care of Ranger & Zip while they’re in Play Mode!

Bllox Stacking Race

Bllöx helps build and improve dexterity, fine and gross motor development, color recognition, pattern recognition and more…but most importantly, it is heaps of FUN for the whole family! Each Player gets 5 blocks; then just flip over a card and race to build what you see!

Alphabet Rubbing Plates

These fun-to-use plates let kids create instant artwork from A to Z! Each plate has an upper- and lowercase letter, plus 2 images with the same initial sound. Also includes animal picture plates! Kids just place paper over the plates and rub with crayons to reinforce letter recognition, initial sounds and more! 

LUX is a revolution in smart construction fun! The Primer takes advantage of Lux multi-wheels and rubber bands to create structures utilizing a pulley and gear system like the Radar Machine and GearBox. Demonstrate complex geometric principles with the Rhombicosidodecahedron!

Maze Racers

Build the trickiest maze you can imagine as fast as you can, then swap mazes with your opponent and start to race! By tilting their board, each player steers their ball through the maze as quick as they can to complete it first.

Mobi Math Tiles

This game introduces simple math in a fun way! Connect your number tiles in a grid using the blue mathematical operation tiles. The first player to connect all their tiles wins!

Spiral Design Kit

The Spiral Art Design Center cleverly combines the principles of art and mathematics so that you can create awesome geometric designs.

Marble Mania

Techno Gears Marble Mania is a great way to develop your child’s building skills. The Zoomerang set includes over 80 pieces to build and create your own marble and gear run. Once completed, the corkscrew marble lifter can be cranked to elevate the marble to the top of the build where the track and the fun begin.

Simple Machines

Mechanical physics is fun with simple machines to help make complex tasks easier to do! Build 26 models to find out about the six classic simple machines – wheels & axles, levers, pulleys, inclined planes, screws, and wedges – plus gears. Combine the pieces to create your own combinations!

The 32-page manual also shows examples of simple machines in action in everyday life. The seesaw at the playground, the wheelbarrow in your backyard, the flagpole in front of your school – all of these are examples of simple machines in the real world! So start building, investigating, and experimenting to discover how physics is all around us!

Math in a Flash

Kids build measurement and data skills in a flash-with a hands-on discovery can they explore on their own! Part of our Math in a Flash! series, 25 question cards that focus on comparing two objects and recognizing attributes, plus fun manipulatives that get children excited about learning!

Best of all, the activities are designed for independent use: Children just select a question card, then use the manipulatives to solve each self-checking problem!

Gingerbread Man Stem Activity Challenges and Blooms Taxonomy Comprehension

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Gingerbread Man Winter STEM Challenges and Comprehension Activities

Engage your students in a delightful blend of literacy and STEM exploration with these "Gingerbread Man STEM Challenges and Worksheets" resource on Teachers Pay Teachers! This comprehensive set combines hands-on STEM activities with thoughtful comprehension questions aligned with all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

**Key Features:**

1. **STEM Challenges:**

- Foster creativity and critical thinking with 5 exciting Gingerbread Man-themed STEM challenges.

- Activities range from building bridges to crafting escape pods, allowing students to explore engineering, physics, and problem-solving skills.

2. ** Detailed Plans:* *

- Each STEM challenge comes with a detailed plan, outlining objectives, materials needed, and step-by-step instructions.

3. * *Worksheets for Documentation:* *

- Printable levelled worksheets accompany each STEM challenge, guiding students through the design and testing process.

- Encourage reflection and analysis with sections for observations, modifications, and improvements.

4. * *Comprehension Questions:**

- Enhance literacy skills with comprehension questions tailored for Before, During, and After reading the "Gingerbread Man" story.

- Questions address all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, ensuring a deep understanding of the narrative.

5. **Interactive Learning:**

- Engage students in interactive comprehension questions that encourage critical thinking, analysis, and application of knowledge.

- Comprehension questions are suitable for all levels of learners, catering to diverse classrooms.

6- Signs with a rhyme for each stem challenge station

**Benefits:**

- Develops STEM skills through hands-on activities.

- Enhances literacy skills with a classic story tie-in.

- Encourages critical thinking and problem-solving.

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Shukshina, L. V., Gegel, L. A., Erofeeva, M. A., Levina, I. D., Chugaeva, U. Y., & Nikitin, O. D. (2021). STEM and STEAM Education in Russian Education: Conceptual Framework. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 17 (10), em2018. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejmste/11184

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Moscow's Urban Movement: Is There Hope for a Better Future?

• Written by Mari Chichagova
• Published on December 09, 2015

In 2010, following the election of a new mayor, the Moscow city government began to work towards a comfortable urban environment in which citizens would feel like residents rather than mere users of the city. The emphasis was on creating public spaces in which Muscovites could fulfill their potential and feel that the city was their home.

Gorky Park was at the forefront of the changes. During the 1990s, the "Central Park of Culture and Leisure" accumulated a collection of fairground rides and became a sort of amusement park popular principally among visitors from other cities; Muscovites hardly went there. Three years ago, the city government made it their mission to overturn the park's image and bring Moscow's residents back. A full-scale reconstruction and restoration began in spring 2011.

Today, Gorky Park is a new level of urban space – one centered around people and boasting a scrupulously conceived infrastructure. All of the changes were aimed at creating a comfortable environment for life - for strolling and sport, work and study, culture and leisure. Moreover, in a short time the park has developed an effective economic model whereby it receives one half of its budget from the city and generates the other half itself.

The regeneration of Gorky Park was followed by a flurry of changes. The city began to invest intensively in the development of other Moscow parks (by 2015, 240 new parks had been opened, 160 of which were in residential areas), in cycling mobility and infrastructure (by 2015, 241.7 kilometers of cycle track and around 10,000 bike parking spaces had been installed), and in street design and refurbishment (to date, 50 streets and squares have been repaired and 72 pedestrian zones created). Pedestrians are now the priority user group in the urban environment.

The work undertaken in 2015 has been more than impressive in its scale: sidewalks have been widened; 30,000 trees have been planted; 10,000 unauthorized advertising structures have been demolished; the facades of 943 buildings have been repaired, 178 hectares of lawn have been replanted, and 1.1 million square meters of flowerbed have been arranged and planted.

The redevelopment of Krymskaya embankment , completed in 2013, is one of the most successful projects to be implemented in recent years. In accordance with the design by Wowhaus Architecture Bureau , the embankment was completely pedestrianized. Cycle paths were demarcated and later became part of a single 8 kilometer cycle track along the Moskva River linking the Pushkinskaya, Andreevskaya, and Vorobyovskaya embankments. The historical identity of the area was also taken into account: artists have sold their work on the Krymskaya embankment since Soviet times; in light of the tradition, a covered wooden arcade was built to accommodate them. Nearby, a summer cinema and a lecture theater have sprung up. Meanwhile, plentiful benches were installed, along with an open fountain which has become a favorite spot for both locals and tourists.

Triumfalnaya square, which opened in its new guise in September 2015, is another successful urban project. As part of the reconstruction, vehicular access to the square was blocked, the street-level parking was removed, and the section of road from the Garden ring onto Tverskaya Street was closed off. The concept, by the architecture studio Buromoscow , was selected as part of a competition which attracted over forty entries. The design also included new trees, swings, and benches, as well as pavilions where residents and tourists might buy tea, coffee and a newspaper, or find out information about the city.

Despite the obvious positive dynamic - Moscow's gradual transition from a city of disconnected “islands” with a closed, unfriendly urban environment to a European style city where pedestrians are the priority user group - there remain a plethora of issues.

Yes, Moscow is continually holding round tables, forums, and discussions of its future urban development. Yes, it can now be said that the government has long-term planning objectives and a concept for how the city ought to look in three, five or ten years’ time.

And yet - despite the involvement of world class experts such as Jan Gehl , Renzo Piano , and Diller Sconfidio + Renfro , despite the numerous architectural competitions involving a jury, the expert community, and the citizens themselves - the quality and implementation of this city-scale project leaves much to be desired.

A good illustration of this is the Moscow government's ongoing program "My Street," which is intended to improve Moscow's public spaces. The project sets aside 100 billion roubles for the redevelopment of 4,000 streets by 2018. Nevertheless, the quality of the work carried out over the summer of 2015 (scheduled for completion in time for the Moscow City Day celebrations in early September) was far from ideal. After the hurried redevelopment works, it was hard not to notice the high, unwieldy curbs, the drains appearing unexpectedly in the middle of cycle-tracks, the tarmac laid on top of paving slabs, or the paving slabs laid on top of tarmac.

Often, an important date (such as the 2018 FIFA World Cup or City Day) is the best motivation for civil servants to get things done. But should it be that way?

There is a flip-side to chasing after statistics. Firstly, quality of execution suffers. Secondly, the choice of contractor and the professionalism of the people hired to supervise and implement the work leaves much to be desired.

The absence of professionals with the skills, experience and enthusiasm to finish a project to a high standard is becoming increasingly apparent. The contractors' main concern is currently to finish the work as fast as possible (usually to a low standard) and pick up their pay check. Companies rarely invest in skilled personnel, preferring to hire cheap labor.

The winners of architectural contests should be permitted, at a legislative level, to supervise the realization of their spatial development concepts. If this is not done, then contracting organizations will continue to profiteer and to alter concepts at the master-planning stage, condemning the original designs to remain mere ideas, a collection of pretty architectural renders in the official documentation. If third parties continue to oversee work, as opposed to the authors of the concepts, then the question must be answered: how will the quality of future projects be guaranteed?

There is no doubt about the mayor's desire to invest in the visual face of Moscow and to improve the city's quality of life. Yet the need remains for a more careful approach to project implementation and to hiring and contracting decisions. There also needs to be more active work with citizens - they are the main users of urban space, and they, ultimately, are the clients.

Mari Chichagova graduated with honours degree from the Faculty of Philology of Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2009. In 2010 she started working at "Interior + Design," a magazine dedicated to architecture, design, culture and about people who were defining and driving those processes, from Norman Foster to Le Corbusier and Zaha Hadid. Afterwards she worked as a PR specialist at the Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design , a Russian institution that is working in the field of urban studies, using a multi-disciplinary approach.

Since 2013 she has worked as a Deputy PR Director and then as an Acting PR Director at Gorky Park , Moscow ’s Central park. In addition to PR duties, she initiated contacts with other significant parks and organizations around the globe such as International Federation of Parks and Recreation Administration, the San Francisco Golden Gate Park, San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, Central Park of New York among others.

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