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Offsite | Teen & Tween Event | YAllapalooza 2012

Start: 01/28/2012 4:00 pm

Phoenix Public Library and Changing Hands Bookstore present Teens and tweens, join us Saturday, January 28 at 4pm, for YAllapalooza 2012, a literary extravaganza for young readers. Here's your chance to mix and mingle with your favorite YA Authors, get signed books and enjoy pizza!   Please Note: This is an offsite presentation at the Burton Barr Central Library (google map), 1221 N. Central Ave, Phoenix 85004 (Transit: McDowell/Central Ave Light Rail Station). Attending Authors: Tom Leveen, Cecil Castellucci, C.J. Hill (aka Janette Rallison), Adam Rex, Robin Brande, Amy Fellner Dominy, Aprilynne Pike, Bree Despain, Anna Carey, Kiersten White, and James A. Owen.

More info: http://www.changinghands.com/yallapalooza2012?utm_source=Changing+Hands+Bookstore+News&utm_campaign=968cd6d66d-Yallapalooza_Solo12_28_2011&utm_medium=email

 

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SAVE THE DATE: Tue, Feb 21, 6:45 pm

Location TBD

Otto Siegel, Expert on Genius and Innovation on

Guide your Children to Live Their Genius

Every child is born to be brilliant. In this new world of education teachers and parents face a higher responsibility to collaborate more effectively beyond perceived limits to give children the opportunity to live their birthright. Participating parents and their children will learn how to identify brilliance inside and outside the school system and how to develop a customized education plans for bright children. Five specific tools and exercises will help them translate new insights into daily practice.

Otto Siegel is a nationally known expert on genius and innovation and co-author of “Yes, You Are a Genius – Whether You Know it or Not”. After teaching Biology and Chemistry to High School students in Munich/Germany and Sao Paulo/Brazil for 17 years he started his company Genius Coaching in 2002 in Scottsdale, AZ. His programs are customized for high performing executives, entrepreneurs, and families with bright children to identify, unleash and leverage hidden natural genius to increase productivity and engagement in companies and at school.

As a speaker on high performance and personal genius he has been invited by numerous organizations:

• Arizona Association for the Gifted and Talented (AAGT)
• AAGT 2009 and 2010 Parent Institute
• Scottsdale Supporters of the Gifted and Talented (SSGT)
• IBM Tucson and San Jose
• Oracle Corporation San Francisco and Orlando/FL
• Dell Computers

He studied Behavioral Science with Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Konrad Lorenz in Munich/Germany and holds a masters degree in education, biology and chemistry.