1. Team Explorer
Crash Course on Creativity
October 23, 2012

2. Opey! from
Lagos, Nigeria Yasmine from Kim from
Dubai, UAE Pittsburgh,
USA
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3. • We all like travelling and have travelled in planes, trains
and cars. We all have travelled outside our home
countries.
Kim at Mt. Opey! in London, which
Tai, China we all love 3

4. • We all have education, and we want to be as educated
as possible.
Opey! on his
graduation day
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5. • English, but we all like learning new ones…
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6. • Yasmine has a strong history in multinational
advertising, and is building a local startup
• Opey! is in agricultural management and development
• Kim works in research and evaluation for local
government in human services
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7. • Yasmine moved from Canada to be closer to her family in
Dubai
• Opey! enjoys time with his family
• Kim lives alone, but visits her family often
Opey! With Toy &
Tobi
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8. Kim’s
grandfather
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9. Kim at
work with
her
friend’s
son
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10. • Red wine and fruit smoothies…
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11. • We like perfume and cologne…
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12. • We like hot baths and sleeping in…
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13. • We like flowers…
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14. • Especially sweet corn…
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15. • Especially fresh mountain air, rivers and the beach…
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16. • Going to art galleries and enjoying old photos and
photography
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17. • We all like Rhythm & Blues and dancing
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18. • And all like to read biographies…
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19. • We all use laptops and mobile phones…
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20. • And Facebook…
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21. •Creativity!
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22. • Emails: we emailed questions to each other
• An essay: One of us used the creativity model to test out
an essay format
• Survey Monkey: we created a short survey that we each
answered
• A list method: one of us created a list of items and we
each removed what we did not like
• We found that using multiple approaches inspired by
each of us brought the best results.
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23. • Finding similarities is tough! When people meet they
describe their differences
• Working internationally can be challenging
• Working together as the Explorer team was productive
and effective
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24. Thank you for your consideration…
The Explorer Team
Opeyemi Akinlolu
Kim Falk
Yasmine Saade
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25. • Page 2: Photos of team members from their personal collections
• Page 3: Photos of Kim Falk and Obeyemi Akinlolo from their personal collections
• Page 4: Photo of Obeyemi Akinlolo from his personal collection
• Page 5: Photo of Chinese character by Kim Falk, French illustration from BestwaytolearnFrench.com
• Page 6: Men-on-stairs, dreamstime.com
• Page 7: Photo from Obeyemi Akinlolo’s personal collection
• Page 8: Photo from Kim Falk’s personal collection
• Page 9: Photo from Kim Falk’s personal collection, taken by Toni Rust
• Page 10: Wine image from topnews.in. Fruit smoothie image from lightenup.biz
• Page 11: Perfume image beautyandbrainblogger.wordpress.com
• Page 12: Hot bath from katahum.com
• Page 13: Tulips image by noupe.com; wild flower image by flowers-wallpaper.info and lotus image by
oahuweddings.wordpress.com
• Page 14: Fresh corn image by frontiersoups.com and grilled corn image by whatscookingamerican.net
• Page 15: Mountain air and snow at Vale by Kim Falk, Ohiopyle Falls by Kim Falk, and beach image by layoutsparks.com
• Page 16: Art work image by Kim Falk; old photo – Kim Falk’s family photos
• Page 17: Rhythm & Blues image by israbox.com; Dancing image by lewrockwell.com
• Page 18: Biographies image by care2.com
• Page 19: Laptops image by hirensbootcd.org; cell phone image by uhaweb.hartford.edu
• Page 20: Internet cartoon from the oatmeal.com; Facebook image from insidefacebook.com
• Page 21: Sunburst image from dreamstime.com
• Page 23: Sunrise image from universetoday.com
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