NEWS & EVENTS

The 2008-2009 Cross Bridge Scholars Program focused on politics, the election, and media, specifically television. 

The Cross Bridge Scholars already worked together to create campaign videos for Barack Obama and John McCain. The scholars put aside their political preferences in order to compose, shoot, and edit advertisements for the candidates that were less than a minute in length. The teams decided which aspect of the presidential race to focus on and then the format to bring their respective message to their schools. Videos will be posted soon.

After creating the ads, the Scholars focused on issues that President Obama would face in the first hundred days of his time in office, and as a result, created satirical television shows addressing said issues.  The Scholars controlled all aspects of these projects: the writing, filming, acting, editing, et al. 

The culmination of the year was a trip to New York City where the Scholars took pictures representing the economic turmoil our country is embroiled in and met with employees at NBC to see what it takes to get into the industry. 

Participants in the program this year were enthusiastic, insightful, and eager to make the program successful.  These dynamic students became a productive, tight group that was determined to create projects that were just as thought-provoking as the program itself.  The purpose of the program is to bring together students, in an academic setting, in an attempt to bring together the Episcopal Academy community with the Philadelphia community and the work speaks for itself; the program is thriving.