Students from Danbury, Brookfield, Bethel, New Fairfield and Newtown join more than 750 high school students from across Connecticut at Quinnipiac University Dec. 16-18 , where they learn about movie making, app design, entrepreneurship and science technology, engineering and mathematics.
Quinnipiac faculty and staff from the Center for 21st Century Skills at Education Connection will host workshops on team building, producing, interviewing, directing, multimedia and web design, journalism, video editing, mobile app design and theory, and audio acquisition.
Professors Rebecca Abbott and Liam O’Brien in the School of Communications at Quinnipiac, also will discuss their most recent documentary, “Ireland’s Great Hunger.”
The Digital Media and Moving Making Program, currently in 12 Connecticut high schools, is one of two 10th grade technology courses in the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences sequence. The other is the Research, Design, and Development Mobile App Design course, which runs in 14 schools.
Quinnipiac has been involved with the Connecticut Career Choices’ Digital Media and Movie Making program since its inception and is now a partner of the Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Other students will learn about social enterprise in corporations where profit typically is dominant and others for a workshop on science technology, engineering and math.