Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was delivered on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium. Over 450 Carnegie Mellon students, staff members, and friends of Pausch attended the lecture, leaving only standing room as this was more than the auditorium could hold. Pausch later commented about this in an interview, saying "A couple of hundred people in a room, looking and listening and laughing and applauding – hopefully at the appropriate times – that gives a lot of validation to my kids that a lot of people believe in this, and a lot of people who knew me believe that I did my best to try to live this way." The first introduction of the speech as well as the series of lectures was given by Indira Nair, the Vice Provost for Education at Carnegie Mellon. Nair first explained the university's aforementioned lecture series called "Journeys", in which eight more professors from Carnegie Mellon would share their insights on their professional and personal experiences over the years.
SeriousFun Children's Network
Since 1988, SeriousFun camps and programs have served 732,306 children and family members, serving 127,153 children and family members in 2015 alone. The name "SeriousFun" acknowledges Paul Newman's playful humor — and also that taking fun seriously matters. According to a 2014-2015 Outcomes Evaluation conducted by Yale's Child Study Center, 79% of camper parents reported an increase in their child's confidence, 74% reported an increase in their child's independence, and 80% reported greater openness in their child's willingness to try new things after camp. According to the Global Partnership Program Camp Outcomes Evaluation conducted by San Diego State University in 2013, there was 58% improvement in campers taking their ART (antiretroviral therapy) medicines in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam after attending camp.