CCC Update January 2009
Posted on: January 15, 2010
Participants in Digital Media and Movie Making, a Connecticut Career Choices program, braved a cold winters day and a ninety-minute delay to attend the second quarterly meeting of the year at Quinnipiac University (QU).
Professor Liam O’Brian of QU spoke live from South Africa about a student documentary project currently being filmed in Cape Town and Krugar National Park. They also communicated via the a virtual world, Second Life.
After the Skype presentation, students separated into working groups to prepare their production company for the projects that must be completed in the second semester. Faculty members hosted workshops in Animation, Directing, Virtual Environments, Producing, Production and Web Design.
Quinnipiac students gave participants a tour of the Hamden campus shortly after the breakout groups, after which pizza was provided.
“The tour was awesome,” Mary McCurley, a senior at East Haven High School, said, according to a Qunnipiac press release. “The fact that you have so many professors here who will lecture to high school kids is a testament to their dedication to their subject and teaching in general.”
During lunch, students were afforded the opportunity to interact with faculty and ask questions relating to their options after high school and prospective careers in film and digital…
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CCC Update December 2009
Posted on: December 18, 2009
Congratulations to students who completed the CCC Film Challenge in November and submitted films within the eighty-four hour production period. All films are now featured on the front page of CTStudentFilms.org. The next challenge is scheduled for March 2010!
E-Commerce Entrepreneurship students from Berlin, East Haven, Lyme-Old Lyme, Hartford Pathways to Technology, Manchester, Nonnewaug, Northwest, and Stonington attended the second meeting of the year at CCSU on December 17th. The students worked on their presentation, marketing, Web design, and digital communication skills in a variety of breakout groups. They also gained some more experience developing theoretical green-themed products and services. The audience at large selected a number of winners for the 30-second commercial challenge and best two-minute business "elevator" pitch.
On December 14th, students in the Bio21 course met at Central Connecticut State University. The students participated in working breakout sessions related to engineering design, digital simulations and prototyping, WordPress skills, presentation skills, marketing and effective leadersh
On December 11th, the E3/DMC students from the New Haven Metropolitan Business Academy and Bethel High School met for the first time at Manchester Community College. While working in collaborative groups the students engaged in a challenge to solve a global issue while creating a sustainable world. The keynote speaker was…
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CCC Update November 2009
Posted on: November 12, 2009
CT Student Film Challenge Now Closed!
The Connecticut Career Choices (CCC) Film Challenge took place from November 13th to November 16th. The Challenge is now closed and no other submissions are being accepted. This statewide film competition is open to all Connecticut high schools. Independent organizations interested in participating should contact us directly. Selected films will appear at the Connecticut Student Film Festival in May, where the winning submission will be announced. See http://ctstudentfilms.org for more information. Submissions that were uploaded within the specified time can be viewed here. http://ctstudentfilms.org/category_home.php?cid=CCC%20Film%20Challenge
Congratulations to all those who produced and completed their film within 84 hours!
CCC Student Quarterly Meetings Underway
A new academic year has seen the start of the quarterly meetings, which are already a great success! E-Commerce Entrepreneurship met at the University of New Haven, on October 30th, where 150 students from 10 schools used CCC's "Build-A-Business" brainstorming cards to compete in a business design competition. Another 150 students from 10 more schools met at IBM in Southbury on the 30th for a "Make-A-Movie" design competition in the Digital Media Moviemaking Program. Not to be outdone, five schools in the Bio21 program met at Manchester Community College (also on the 30th!) for a working session to learn more about…
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Welcome to the New CCC Web Site!
Posted on: October 02, 2009
CCC is pleased to announce the launch of our new Connecticut Career Choices Web site, which already contains more than 100 pieces of work by our 21st Century CCC students. This student work portal will continue to grow, featuring examples of exceptional images, documents, and games, as well as video clips that link to the CCC Student Film Web site, which was launched in early spring.
The Bio21, Digital Media Moviemaking (DM3), E-Commerce Entrepreneurship (ECE), Foundations in Health Science and Technology (FHST), and Information Technology Research and Development (ITRD) courses each received major updates and revisions.
CCC also rolled out two new ninth-grade courses for the inaugural year of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences: Earth Energy Essentials (E3) and Digital Media Communications (DMC).
Teachers from every program attended our annual Summer Institute, hosted this year at Naugatuck Valley Community College, and began with a day at the new Connecticut Science Center.
Registration for the CCC Film Festival goes live on Friday, October 2nd. Visit the CCC Student Film Web site to register and find out more!
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