Youth Programs Flourish @ 911
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The area of youth education continues to grow and expand at 911.

This past Fall launched "Gen 7" a new collaboration between Red Llama and 911 Media Arts Center. The members of the Gen 7 Council recognized a significant need for Native American youth to acquire media literacy skills as well as multimedia, hardware and software computer skills.  In the age of My Space and You Tube These skills are critical for cultural and communicative empowerment. Students were given access to software that enabled them to create augmented 3 dimensional environments. The students built 3d models to illustrate stories told to them regarding the history of their people and the Seattle landscape.

Another exciting collaboration that took place with "Teens Media Network and Take it Seriously:Sex and Media."  911 created a team of young designer to produce a PSA to educate teenagers regarding important sexual issues. The PSA will be included in teen presentations to middle school students in Washington State public schools. This is an exciting project for 911, as students get hands on training for experience to the adult design world. Its been a privilege to witness the sincerity of the team of students and their commitment this project.



Current Programming
South Park Young Producers Program :: REEL EYES

This winter continues the after school Young Producer Program: Video Underground. We return to the South Park Community Center, with a grant from the Mayors office, offering the class called "Reel Eyes" from JAN 14 - APRIL 25 2008.









Coming this SUMMER to 911

::Games 101::

Ages: 12-18
Dates: June 23- 27
Times: 10am - 4pm, M-F
Price: $440

This camp is an introduction game design and the creation of interactive experiences. SO its two weeks of fun and games. Well sort of… you will play shriek and laugh out loud while engaged in studying games of all kinds. Paper based games, first person shooters classical board games… but you will also focuses on game development—both computer, analogue and other types of games—through structured game design problems, exercises, lectures, and reading. The emphasis will be on an prototyping, playtesting, user experience, and clear concept development. The goal of the class is to explore how design systems (in this case, games) support interactivity through meaningful play. This week long class focuses on the design of games and playful experiences, and will not focus on specific game programming techniques, but you will do a little work in Flash.

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::Old Fire House at Redmond::

Ages: 13-19
Dates: July 14-18
Times: 10am-3pm, M-F
Price: $280(R) / $336(N)

The Old Fire House at Redmond partners with 911 media arts center, to host students for a 5 day camp to learn media literacy, critical viewing skills, technical training, and analysis of cinema techniques such as camera angles, lighting, shot composition, editing, sound, and story development. Using these skills and the media arts technology from 911 Media Arts Center, youth will form crews, write, storyboard, direct, shoot, and edit short videos, producing an audio and visual account of their personal and community experiences.

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::Media Pirates Ahoy!::

Ages: 11-15
Dates: July 21-Aug 1
Times: 9am-4pm, M-F
Price: $650

A bold primer in both sailing fundamentals and renegade filmmaking brought to you jointly by 911 Media Arts and The Center for Wooden Boats. ARRRGH! Students will learn to sail, and shoot and edit digital video as they make films related to boats and the water. The meaning, value, and history of piracy in all contexts will be laid open to interpretation, while students are supplied with the tools and skills they need to for such a journey into uncharted waters. By combining the physical immediacy of sailing with the voice and power of filmmaking, the class hopes to provide students with some survival skills for navigating the strange seas of our time.

For more information visit the website of The Center for Wooden Boats. and their Media Pirates page.





::Common Language Project::

Ages: 11-15
Dates: JULY 7 - JULY 18
Times: 10am-4pm, M-F
Price: $650

Another exciting and dynamic collaboration in cyberspace is in collaboration with the group Common Language Project.This class puts online publishing tools into the hands of teens so they might make a change in online journalism. Students learn the power of images and media literacy while creating fun interactive news journals. Aspects of media literacy are intertwined with the latest online technologies so teens can have their say.

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