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2008-09 Project Descriptions

Cross Bridge Scholars' Campaign Public Service Announcements (PSAs): The scholars, in preparation for the upcoming election of November 2008, worked together to create, write, shoot, direct, and edit short videos discussing the two major candidates' positions on various issues. The scholars, regardless of political preference, worked together to create advertisements for candidates McCain and Obama. These PSAs were then shown to the EA students, in homeroom, on Election Day, and were also shown to the students in the Honickman Learning Center's Comcast Technology Labs' Teen Program.

Cross Bridge Scholars' Political Spoof Shows: The scholars, following President Obama's election, decided to focus on the issues that the President-elect would face in his first hundred days in office. Rather than present these in a rigid news-format, the Scholars decided to utilize humor and created satirical videos focusing on the issues looming over the new administration.

The Cross Bridge Mission Statement:

The Cross Bridge Scholars Program is an academically rigorous enrichment program committed to building an extended community in Philadelphia through a uniquecollaborative program between the Honickman Learning Center Comcast Technology Labs and Episcopal Academy. Encouraging a cooperative learning experience between students from both institutions, the Cross Bridge Scholars  will design multi-media projects and an on-line magazine that combines the strengths of the students and institutions. The students will use their projects to promote open discussions about these difficult issues within their respective communities.


The 2008-2009 Cross Bridge Scholars Program participants at the first
Bridge Day of the year, working with Outward Bound.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

NEWS & EVENTS

The 2009-2010 Cross Bridge Scholars Program is focusing on service. 

The Cross Bridge Scholars already worked together on a service project, working with Philadelphia Green, a non-profit committed to greening Philadelphia’s spaces.  Philadelphia Green’s annual event was called “Fall for your Park” and more information is available at http://www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org/phlgreen/index.html.  The Cross Bridge Scholars cleaned and raked two Philadelphia parks, one in North Philadelphia and the other in West Philadelphia.

While cleaning the two parks, the Scholars also filmed their work for documentaries they are currently working on.  One group will be creating a documentary on teens and service and the other group will focus on the non-profit Philadelphia Green.  The Scholars will be editing these documentaries in the coming weeks and these videos will be available on the website afterwards.

In order to understand the documentary process, the Scholars have viewed several documentaries.  One was “Amizade Global Service-Learning Course Documentary” and the other was “Carry On” which aired on ESPN and tells the story of two high school wrestlers and what they overcame to graduate.

Participants in the program this year are enthusiastic, insightful, and eager to make the program successful.  These dynamic students became a productive, tight group that is determined to create projects that are 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.

 
 
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