Camp Details
"GearUp New Mexico for the Future: Innovative Careers Collaborative"
Summer Career Academy
Regional students met with "real-life" professionals
and enjoyed hands-on learning activities exploring
Film, Green, and Tech Careers in New Mexico
June 15-17, 2016
Gear Up New Mexico High Schools:
Pecos High School in Pecos
Shiprock High School in Shiprock
Grants High School in Grants
Coronado High School in Galiina
Walatowa Charter High School in Jemez
Jemez Valley High School in Jemez
Los Lunas High School in Los Lunas
Capital High School in Santa Fe
Mora High School in Mora
Peñasco High School in Peñasco
Bernalillo High School in Bernalillo
Pecos High School in Pecos
Shiprock High School in Shiprock
Grants High School in Grants
Coronado High School in Galiina
Walatowa Charter High School in Jemez
Jemez Valley High School in Jemez
Los Lunas High School in Los Lunas
Capital High School in Santa Fe
Mora High School in Mora
Peñasco High School in Peñasco
Bernalillo High School in Bernalillo
Littleglobe Film Academy
Students in the film program will step right into the role of filmmaker and experience each key role with a film team: camera operations, lighting, audio and direction. Each filmmaker will learn the nuts and bolts about building stories through creative cinematography, personal narrative and interview skills.
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon:
Working as a team, personal story, looking under the hood of short films, filmmaking terms and roles, intro to cinematography
Day 2:
Full day intensive: production studio (lights, camera, directing, interviewing, audio); shooting team and creative cinematography/in-camera animation
Day 3/Morning:
Screening resulting media to the larger camp group
About the FIlm Academy Mentors
Filmmaker/cinematographer, visual artist, animator Michael Lorenzo Lopez enjoys the discovery process art affords - From stringing a 300′ garland of community folded paper flowers through a stranger’s second story window, to running a 1000′ landline from a stranger’s house, to a telephone offering a free messaging service. Michael enjoys discovering the endless forms of storytelling. He crafted his skills in participatory media making while studying popular education in Nicaragua. His work incorporates video, soundscapes, animations, and public interaction. This last fall, he shot and directed the Littleglobe PBS feature documentary "Mark Chino" about a youth from the Santa Ana Pueblo. His portfolio includes work for the City of Albuquerque, the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, Working Classroom and immigrant rights organization.
Students in the film program will step right into the role of filmmaker and experience each key role with a film team: camera operations, lighting, audio and direction. Each filmmaker will learn the nuts and bolts about building stories through creative cinematography, personal narrative and interview skills.
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon:
Working as a team, personal story, looking under the hood of short films, filmmaking terms and roles, intro to cinematography
Day 2:
Full day intensive: production studio (lights, camera, directing, interviewing, audio); shooting team and creative cinematography/in-camera animation
Day 3/Morning:
Screening resulting media to the larger camp group
About the FIlm Academy Mentors
Filmmaker/cinematographer, visual artist, animator Michael Lorenzo Lopez enjoys the discovery process art affords - From stringing a 300′ garland of community folded paper flowers through a stranger’s second story window, to running a 1000′ landline from a stranger’s house, to a telephone offering a free messaging service. Michael enjoys discovering the endless forms of storytelling. He crafted his skills in participatory media making while studying popular education in Nicaragua. His work incorporates video, soundscapes, animations, and public interaction. This last fall, he shot and directed the Littleglobe PBS feature documentary "Mark Chino" about a youth from the Santa Ana Pueblo. His portfolio includes work for the City of Albuquerque, the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project, Working Classroom and immigrant rights organization.
Chris Jonas makes documentary media with students statewide to help to express youth perspectives about identity, the education system and who they are in this world. Through these programs, he has produced two PBS feature documentaries including "Our Time is Now," carrying stories of New Mexican youth to 300 million American homes. He recently directed "Acoustic Bike Tour" about the 2,000-mile bike odyssey of a jazz cornet player and is now creating the multimedia performance documentary "City of Dreamers" with Santa Fe South Side youth about immigration and equity in Santa Fe. He was associate producer and composer for "Sembene!" about the West African filmmaking revolutionary Ousmane Sembene which premiered at Sundance 2015. Jonas has taught media arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts, won the 2009 United States Artists Award and is Executive Director of Littleglobe. www.littleglobe.org www.tricentricfoundation.org www.ourtimeisnowmovie.org
Creative Coding Academy
Students in the coding program will step right into the role of computer coder, learning about the variety of coding languages, as well as the range of careers possible for coders. Each coder will explore a variety of functions possible through coding, to create multi-media artworks including animation, sound, image, and video.
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon:
Brief overview of what code is, the history of computers, the history and varieties of different coding languages, and most importantly an idea of how many different careers require and/or benefit from code. Plus, learn the difference between coding and computer science and what to study if you want to code.
Day 2: Full day intensive:
Hands-on day of coding to work through and play with progressively more challenging/complicated/fulfilling sets of code to make art, including animation, sound, image, and video.
Day 3/Morning:
Overview and screening of our Creative Coding multi-media creations with the larger camp group.
About the Creative Coding Mentors
Amy Traylor teaches Creative Technology and New Media Art at Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, NM. Her students write code to make art with experimental films, sound art, installations, and interactive art as the products.
Amy Traylor is an award winning artist, technologist, and educator whose work has been exhibited numerous times at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History and the New Mexico Museum of Art. In the last few years Amy has turned her attention completely to the development of new media works, including experimental film, sound, and creative coding. As a photographer, she was always frustrated with the stillness of the image and the inability to dig deeper into the physical structure of the print. Through code, Amy is finally able to take apart the image, examine the parts, and tease out new conversations for her imagery. Amy sees code as a way to transcend mediums and blur the boundaries of art and technology. She thrives in sharing her adoration of code with her students in a collaborative studio environment where they together learn to write code, make films, record sound, tinker, play, and make. Her student's work has been seen in local, state, and national venues, earning statewide and national awards in experimental film and creative coding. In her spare time, Amy continues her coding education through courses in machine learning, data visualization, creative coding, and generative art.
A team of Coding Interns from Del Norte High School will also assist in facilitating an amazing experience of learning to code.
Students in the coding program will step right into the role of computer coder, learning about the variety of coding languages, as well as the range of careers possible for coders. Each coder will explore a variety of functions possible through coding, to create multi-media artworks including animation, sound, image, and video.
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon:
Brief overview of what code is, the history of computers, the history and varieties of different coding languages, and most importantly an idea of how many different careers require and/or benefit from code. Plus, learn the difference between coding and computer science and what to study if you want to code.
Day 2: Full day intensive:
Hands-on day of coding to work through and play with progressively more challenging/complicated/fulfilling sets of code to make art, including animation, sound, image, and video.
Day 3/Morning:
Overview and screening of our Creative Coding multi-media creations with the larger camp group.
About the Creative Coding Mentors
Amy Traylor teaches Creative Technology and New Media Art at Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, NM. Her students write code to make art with experimental films, sound art, installations, and interactive art as the products.
Amy Traylor is an award winning artist, technologist, and educator whose work has been exhibited numerous times at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History and the New Mexico Museum of Art. In the last few years Amy has turned her attention completely to the development of new media works, including experimental film, sound, and creative coding. As a photographer, she was always frustrated with the stillness of the image and the inability to dig deeper into the physical structure of the print. Through code, Amy is finally able to take apart the image, examine the parts, and tease out new conversations for her imagery. Amy sees code as a way to transcend mediums and blur the boundaries of art and technology. She thrives in sharing her adoration of code with her students in a collaborative studio environment where they together learn to write code, make films, record sound, tinker, play, and make. Her student's work has been seen in local, state, and national venues, earning statewide and national awards in experimental film and creative coding. In her spare time, Amy continues her coding education through courses in machine learning, data visualization, creative coding, and generative art.
A team of Coding Interns from Del Norte High School will also assist in facilitating an amazing experience of learning to code.
Green Academy
Students in the Green program will enjoy an introduction to green technologies including renewable energy, aquaponics and energy efficiency and find out what it's like to work with these technologies from area green industry professionals.
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon: Overall discussion and introduction to green technologies
Day 2:/Morning: Trip over to SFCC to tour all of the green technology installations and laboratories and learn the fundamentals of wind, solar, biomass, aquaponics, and green building technologies. Students will also participate in two hands-on workshops, one in bioenergy and one in sustainable agriculture and aquaponics.
Day 2/Late Afternoon: Roundtable discussion with professionals in green industries, sharing insights and answering questions from the students.
Day 3/Morning: Reporting back to the group, closing discussion on career opportunities and moving forward into green technology.
Students in the Green program will enjoy an introduction to green technologies including renewable energy, aquaponics and energy efficiency and find out what it's like to work with these technologies from area green industry professionals.
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon: Overall discussion and introduction to green technologies
Day 2:/Morning: Trip over to SFCC to tour all of the green technology installations and laboratories and learn the fundamentals of wind, solar, biomass, aquaponics, and green building technologies. Students will also participate in two hands-on workshops, one in bioenergy and one in sustainable agriculture and aquaponics.
Day 2/Late Afternoon: Roundtable discussion with professionals in green industries, sharing insights and answering questions from the students.
Day 3/Morning: Reporting back to the group, closing discussion on career opportunities and moving forward into green technology.
About the Green Academy Mentors
Luke Spangenburg is the Director at the Santa Fe Community College Biofuels Center of Excellence located in the LEED Platinum Trades and Advanced Technologies Center. This nationally recognized program provides a critical link to industry, sustainable technologies and applied research providing participants and collaborators access to current skills and applications in the energy industry. Luke is also the founder of New Solutions Energy which focuses on integration of food, energy and water systems for municipal and agricultural applications. Luke is also a community activist engaging and supporting grass roots solutions and trying to inspire collaboration.
Adam Cohen is Lead Faculty, Greenhouse Technologies and Operations at Santa Fe Community College. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Marine Biology and Marine Fisheries from Texas A&M University, pursued graduate work at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, and has taught mathematics, life and physical sciences, agriculture and entrepreneurship in both private and public high schools for more than 12 years. In 2007, Cohen founded Green Phoenix Farms, a company that is focused on providing individuals with the training, materials and designs necessary to produce high quality foods with minimal effort and resource utilization. His commitment to sustainability, natural food and healthy eating, and a concern for the future well-being of communities and the earth as a whole have guided his current efforts to research, develop and educate about Aquaponics. Cohen is committed to developing a method to grow food and aquatic animals in a simple, symbiotic system that can be scaled for “back-yard” hobby farming or up to large-scale profitable commercial production. As a long-term goal, he envisions an urban agricultural model, which will supply natural fruits, vegetables, herbs and a variety of edible fish and other seafood through a totally self-contained and sustainable growing system.
Stephen Gómez, Ph.D. Dr. Gómez is a native New Mexican. He started his career in the biomedical field with appointments at the Dept. of Molecular Biotechnology, U. of Washington; Dept. of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, UCLA and the Respiratory Immunology and Asthma Program, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute. Since returning to New Mexico, Dr. Gómez’ interests have shifted to sustainable agriculture and biofuels. He has served as a consultant to Sandia National Laboratories in Renewable Energy and managed the research program in low-water greenhouse agriculture at the Indio-Hispano Academy of Agricultural Arts and Sciences. Dr. Gómez joined the faculty at SFCC in 2014. Previously, he taught biology at UCLA, U. of Washington, U. of Wyoming, UNM and CNM Community College. While at CNM he developed a curriculum in Green Energy as part of the engineering program. In addition to his duties as chair, Dr. Gómez also teaches biology courses in the School of Science, Health, Engineering and Mathematics.
Diane Bardal - Diane has worked across a number of industries in a variety of roles. She’s been involved in building simulation models for wildlife habitat and water contamination, designing business intelligence systems for marketing and sales initiatives in banking and media, overseeing the development of artificial intelligence systems for product configuration and e-maintenance, and creating IT solutions for manufacturers and distributors. She’s worked with startups, small to medium sized firms, and also several large firms like Boeing, JP Morgan-Chase, and PR Newswire. She’s spent the last decade focused on distributed renewable energy, creating new business strategies, product roadmaps and innovating new business models focused on addressing consumer’s values and business sustainability.
Collaborating and Coordinating Organizations Include:
Community Learning Network “Building Stronger Communities through Real-life Learning”
www.communitylearningnetwork.org
Jennifer Nevarez, Lead Educator and Director of the locally-born and based nonprofit Community Learning Network, has supported innovations in teaching and learning for decades. She currently holds a New Mexico Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential with TESOL certification and stewards community-based learning programs including SEE Southwest Experiential Education, Love Where We Live Youth Ambassadors, and NM Career Profiles. casenevarez@yahoo.com
www.communitylearningnetwork.org
Jennifer Nevarez, Lead Educator and Director of the locally-born and based nonprofit Community Learning Network, has supported innovations in teaching and learning for decades. She currently holds a New Mexico Multiple-Subject Teaching Credential with TESOL certification and stewards community-based learning programs including SEE Southwest Experiential Education, Love Where We Live Youth Ambassadors, and NM Career Profiles. casenevarez@yahoo.com
GEARUP New Mexico
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) New Mexico is a seven-year initiative managed by the State of New Mexico's Department of Higher Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education designed to increase the number of students going to post-secondary schools, to enhance the college-going culture in those communities. and to improve access and opportunities within state colleges and universities for all students. To learn more visit www.hed.state.nm.us
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) New Mexico is a seven-year initiative managed by the State of New Mexico's Department of Higher Education and funded by the U.S. Department of Education designed to increase the number of students going to post-secondary schools, to enhance the college-going culture in those communities. and to improve access and opportunities within state colleges and universities for all students. To learn more visit www.hed.state.nm.us
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of the collaborating organizations and individuals.
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of the amazing efforts and expertise of many!
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