Costa Rica

Multipurpose Learning Bus (mobile classroom)Sarah and Luke want to move around and venture to different areas.  They want to learn more about the volcanoes, how it effects the agriculture, and surrounding habitats.  Deciding whether to do this as a non-school assignment, it just could not be done without a vehicle and resources.  With their luck,  they saw the Learning Bus on the course list, they both signed up.  Because of the curriculum, the class requires a bus with lab equipment in order for students to learn more about the volcanoes nearby.  This mobile classroom has a scheduled route, going in and out of the volcanic site daily.  The professor is a highly trained bus driver and a volcanic analyst, who studied all the volcanoes nearby campus.  This course meets in classroom and sometimes on the road.  There will be occasional over the weekend trips with other students from the La Flor campus.  The bus provides a connection between the two campuses and also the students to the actual environments.

McDonald’s Catering
In Costa Rica, McDonald’s went area specific in the local neighborhood.  Being area specific, McDonalds looked into the local food and have broaden their menu.  Samantha a mother of four, was hosting a birthday party for one of her sons, Nick.  Nick loves McDonalds as well as mom’s home cooking.  So Samantha had McDonalds cater their special Costa Rican menu to Nick’s birthday party.   Their local McDonalds had a kids menu that had animal toys that were endangered in Costa Rica.  With small fun facts and animated animal characters on the bag, Samantha thought it would be a great way to connect the children with their surroundings.

Farming Tourist Attraction
Letty and John came to Costa Rica as ecotourists.  It was their first time here so they went with the tour guides suggestion to visit a small local farm that was open to visit.  At first it sounded strange to the couple, because the thought of a farm meant, the southern states.  However going to a farm in a South American country?  Strange at first, but during Letty and John’s visit, they learned of the new animals and local crops that they have never seen before.  The most interesting part of the farm was its wine section.  They learned the history of wine and tasted different exotic wines of Costa Rica. (Farmers could know where their crops could end up being sold or located, through some mobile device?)

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