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The challenge: Animated films are a way of addressing serious/hard-to-film
concepts in a manner that may be more comfortable for people to view.
Think about some issues facing communities today and write/animate a short
film that addresses those issues.
Architecture/Design
The challenge: As a group, design a community
center. Start by thinking about the resources that are already available
in your community and what may be missing. Perhaps you need more activities
for teens, better medical centers, or more Clubhouses. Decide what needs
are the most pressing and design one community center which addresses
those needs.
The challenge: Create a comic book that addresses some issues facing your community today. Some examples may include homelessness, violence, or pollution. Find a way to make your comic book interactive using the technology available to you.
The challenge: Create a digital map of the coolest youth places in a Boston neighborhood. Using digital cameras, audio recorders, and state-of-the-art mapping technology, you will go out to the streets of a Boston neighborhood, interview people, explore what is happening there, and, together, create a digital guide to favorite youth places in the area.
The challenge: Digital photography is a wonderful way to capture memories, but also a means of self-expression. Learn the basics of the digital camera and then set out to document the Teen Summit, while also creating your own works of art. Share your photos with the Journalism and Web Design groups to help them accomplish their goals.
The challenge: Do you know who designed the clothes that you wear? Are you ever frustrated because something doesn’t fit or look the way you want? Here is your opportunity to design your own fashion line. Start out by talking to some of your friends, and other Teen Summit participants. What would they like to see? Can you find a way to incorporate traditional dress and modern clothing styles into one clothing line? Start with drawings, play around with colors and fabrics, and, if time permits, make some samples of your own.
The challenge: to envision and make a collaborative game, where players work together towards a shared goal. Work in small groups to create images and sounds, build your own game controllers, and integrate the elements using a new graphical programming language.
The challenge: Bring together graphics, sound clips, videos, and other elements to create a collaborative video-game using a variety of tools and game-making software.
The Teen Summit logo is printed on all of the Teen Summit materials, including T-Shirts, programs, and the website. The challenge: design a logo that captures the essence of the Teen Summit, can be reproduced in black and white and color, and can be scaled for large or small printing. If you have time, create a series of posters to advertise the next Teen Summit.
What are the things other people might want to know about the Teen Summit? What would make good news? How about human interest stories? The challenge: document the Teen Summit through a magazine, blog, or daily newsletter. Collaborate with other groups to get photos, information, and graphics. Interview your fellow Teen Summit attendees, write about your own experiences, and discover the information "behind the scenes". Then, pull everything together, lay it out, and publish!
An anthem is a piece of music that helps inspire a group of people around a particular idea (such as a national anthem). The challenge: create a song/rap around a theme (such as the Computer Clubhouse or the Teen Summit) that others might be inspired by.
Creating beats and writing music is so popular that three different groups worked on independent music projects.
Yet another take on creating a unique musical project
More and more robots are being used to do things that are too monotonous, dangerous, or precise for humans. The challenge: think about some of the needs you have in your communities. What are some robotic solutions to help meet those needs? Using the tools provided to you, and working in teams, design and build your robots.
The challenge: using a variety of stop action animation techniques, create a movie, or series of movies that addresses some common issues facing your community today.
The challenge: create a TV show or news broadcast to share the experiences of travelling to and participating in the Teen Summit with other Clubhouse Members, family and friends who are at home. Try to capture the diversity of the participants, the activities that are taking place, and the location of the Summit.
The challenge: create a (video) commercial for the Computer Clubhouse that will appeal to other teens around the world. The end result might be something you or your Clubhouse Coordinator could use to get others excited about the Clubhouse and could include music, animation, or whatever helps get the message across.
The challenge: create a Teen Summit website and post it on the Village for the rest of the Clubhouse Network to see. Collaborate with other groups to obtain photos, articles, music, graphics, etc.
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