As you and I age, we start to realize just how important people were/are to get us to where we are now. Whether it was grandmothers praying for us, teachers teaching us, parents loving and guiding us, professors encouraging us and opening our eyes, heart and mind to the universe, mentors mentoring us, our growth all comes down to education. Many people invested in us. And this is precisely what IGY is doing. They are taking the reigns of education from the teachers and professors, and placing that directionality, the steering, into each young man or women. IGY is standing in that gap between education ‘finished’ and impact ‘starting’ for that young woman or young man. Learning is both continuous and lifelong. Impact does not wait for education to ‘finish’.
Why would I not be excited!?! Why should you be excited? Because the team Celeste has put together is not just smart, they also have the heart, the passion, and the organizational skills to effectively educate in a pretty non-traditional (at least since the 1800s) way. About 200ish years ago, the rich of society would send their ‘classically educated’ children on the Grand Tour. Spending at least one year travelling the world, and first-hand experiencing some of what they saw in books and heard from teachers. Those of us who have extensively traveled and/or lived outside of our home country know precisely what I am talking about. Effective education is caught, not taught. Context is everything. And how can one catch if you are 5,000 miles away? 
IGY is going to not only bring the teaching close so it can be caught, but also guide the young women and men to make decisions about how they will impact the world they live in.

As an educator, albeit part-time at the moment, scientist, and start-up blessed, I can’t wait to see this effort and effect lift-off and soar, touching the next generation. Who, frankly, will be designing the machines and developing the policies that will keep me alive and solvent when I am much much older, and enable me to enjoy that ‘new’ old life even more-so. The world’s future becomes brighter and brighter as IGY grows and grows.