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Only one month to go until the 2010 CT Innovation Expo and CT Student Film Festival! All quarterly meetings wrapped up at the end of March, and planning for May 7th and 8th is in full swing for Connecticut Career Choices students, teachers, and staff.
Students from ITRD, ECE, Bio21, Chem21, and the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences are working diligently to meet the deadlines on their year-long projects, while Foundations of Health Science and Technology (FHST) students are just getting started on their challenge—conceptualizing a new, innovative, and green medical center. FHST students are creating multimedia presentations and designing a booth to showcase their one-of-a-kind facility and staff for judges and Expo attendees. Also presenting will be students from the Real World Design Challenge, a national engineering program, featuring Connecticut's own state champions - the Millenium Falcon team from Xavier High School in Middletown.
DM3 students will debut their films at the CT Student Film Festival on May 7th at the Palace Theater in Danbury. Student participants from urban and suburban school districts will screen their work in multiple fiction and non-fiction categories. The latest work was produced as part of the CCC Film Challenge and can be seen on Read More...
CCC Update February 2010
Posted on: March 24, 2010
Although February brought much snow and rain, CCC students, teachers, and staff had a productive month.
E-Commerce Entrepreneurship (ECE) participants met on February 5th at Southern Connecticut State University for their third quarterly meeting of the school year. Students and teachers broke into workshops in marketing, financial analysis, product development, presentation, and Web site. A new workshop group on green energy and sustainability run by Linda Kobylarz, a career development consultant and green economy specialist, was added to this month’s roster.
At the end of the meeting, presenters from each school showcased their works in progress: environmentally-friendly e-commerce services grounded in sustainable practices. Oxford High School students took home first place with their elevator pitch for “The Green Zine”. Nonnewaug High School’s Andrew Parlato also won for his individual business plan proposal.
Digital Media Movie Making (DM3) also met on February 24 at IBM in Southbury, CT. Students brainstormed new ideas for their documentaries and animated shorts. The winner of the Fall 2009 CCC Student Film Challenge, as judged by peers, was Simsbury High School’s film, “Conspiracy Busters“.
All films, including “The Vial Truth” by East Haven High School, “The Baker Conspiracies” by Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven, and all submissions to the Spring 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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