Summer bridge

Pilot Program:

SUMMER LA HIGH TECH 2017

Proposal Presented by: Dakar April 12, 2017

STEAMS Academy provides: • Hart Beat Certification © • Pre-Apprenticeship 101 • Research & Development Project Based Learning • Evaluative and summary reporting and research .

We provide access to influencers, stakeholders, mentorship best practices and many resources and connections that schools need to fully fund and sustain STEAM curriculum to workforce placement for Underserved communities.

LA High Tech will be the beneficiary of this STEAMS Academy pilot program and will receive the following benefits: 1.

A STEAM Track that exposes K-14 students to case-managed and implemented projects that inspire, encourage and connect youth to pursue STEAM educational career tracks (Summer 2017)

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An experience that will be available to all LA HIGH TECH students, as well as select students from like-minded-spirited academies and work-force-readiness programs.

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Media created by students that documents the activities and results of STEM research and development

STEAM Training will accelerate and connect career strategies by providing a source of interaction and information to improve engagement and increase their involvement in these areas. The program will lead to the creation of media for the students by the students that will influence their peers towards STEAM educational pursuits. This media will highlight the story telling skills of the media students while it will provide documentation of the experience for the science students.

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Pilot for LA HIGH TECH Program Overview: The STEAMS (Science Technology Engineering Arts Math Stewardship) Summer Bridge Academy at Hart Beat Studios is an intensive six-week program designed to assist students get a head start in their high school academic pursuit and ease their transition from middle school to high school and beyond. The program targets middle school students who may be interested in careers within the fields of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.

Details: The Summer Bridge program this year will run for 6 consecutive weeks during the summer break which starts June 2017. Classes will meet for 1.5 hours daily for the duration of the program. (Note that the exact dates and amount of time need to be confirmed.)

The program will cover two subject area: Coding and Digital Media production. For middle school students, participation will be a learning opportunity in the specific subject area. For high school and community college students, participation will be a leadership/mentorship opportunity.

Middle school students enroll in a 9th grade level course conducted by an instructor Evette Vargas. They will participate in all aspects of the program, which include orientation, coursework, advisement, workshops, in a simulated USC ICT STEAM Project which will provide the content and the coursework that will be completed by a collaborative team comprised of 9-14 school media students High school students in both the LAUSD science and media programs will enroll in a course and will act as mentors to the middle school students.

Benefits of Participation: Middle school students will: - receive high school credit for their work.

- establish ties with high schools who can act as mentors to them when they enter high school.

- be exposed to various careers within the fields of science, medicine, the environment, engineering, technology, arts and mathematics.

- experience a highly supportive learning environment with positive role models.

High school students will: - gain experience as a mentor to younger students.

- learn how to manage situations and direct people.

- receive credit for their work as a subject matter leader.

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Pilot for LA HIGH TECH Mentorship & Projected Outcomes The Summer Bridge Academy is comprised of a consortium of media, technologist mentors and students of color and girls connected through common Diversity and Inclusion initiatives in the digital media-technology career workforce.

The Summer Bridge Academy seeks to engage middle/high schools, community college and university students to compete for slots in developing Intellectual Property as research material for social impact, and to develop their potential as future leaders and game changers in their respective communities.

Dakar will create the initial applicant pool by inviting a number of students from top STEAM boot camps and classrooms in Southern California to students on the fringe of the juvenile justice system to collaborate on project based learning modules donated from Silicon Valley companies such as, Intel, Apple, and Cisco.

The charter student members will be celebrated and exposed to leaders in tech entertainment (startups) as well as exposed to group and electronic mentorship and immersive training to develop them as ambassadors of the Academy. Research Student will demonstrate STEAM potential through depth of research and analysis, which is critical to conducting basic or fundamental research.

Stewardship Students will demonstrate STEAM potential through their passion to make a difference, most notably by seeking solutions to real-world problems in their underserved communities. Innovation Students will demonstrate STEAM potential by applying their problem solving aptitude of an STEAM Academy member through innovative design and creativity.

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Pilot for LAUSD General Concept: Four Programs running concurrently centered around researching a common problem and creating solutions and developing prototypes for further development

Middle School (hands on training)

LA HIGH TECH (leadership and mentoring)

STEM Program

STEM students will be taped and documented by the media students.

All students who have participated in LA HIGH TECH CAREER PATHWAYS PROGRAM will be eligible to serve as mentors

ARTS Program

LA HIGH TECH Students who are in the television production program may be eligible to serve as mentors for all-feeder students

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Pilot for LA High Tech LA HIGH TECH • A 6 week project to be held from June 2017 and August 2017 • ROI to be measured by survey before – after • Estimated number of students X • Build on the strength of awareness and knowledge of USC ICT Research • Separate program.

• Primary Goal: Build science skills and a greater understanding of Silicon Beach economy, and emerging career pathways.

LA HIGH TECH MENTORS • High School students from LAUSD • Estimated number of students X • ROI to be measured by XXX • Build on knowledge of Research @ USC ICT, and publish stories.

Additional Benefit: Interaction with high school students may comfort anxious middle school students as they prepare for high school. Mentor relationship establishes a bridge for these students.

• Goal: Teach mentorship and leadership skills, writing-blogging, editing, • Social media management, interviewing skills, after-action-review skills.

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Pilot for LAUSD BONUS!

LA HIGH TECH Media Project

Including the media students provides a huge bonus. They will:

Feeder for 10th -12th • A 6 week project to be held from June 2017 to August 2017 • ROI to be measured by test before – after • Estimated number of students X

• document the work that the STEM students are doing so these students will have a record to show to prospective colleges and employers.

• Primary Goal: Introduce interested students to TV production (filming, editing, etc.)

• create material that can be used to showcase program and, in the process, showcase their own work, such as Intel Futures Challenge.

LA HIGH TECH Media Project High School Mentors • High School students LA HIGH TECH School’s Media Program • Estimated number of students X • ROI to be measured by video project produced Additional Benefit: Interaction with high school students may comfort anxious middle school students as they prepare for high school. Mentor relationship establishes a bridge for these students.

• Build on knowledge of STEAM Research, such ICT Project.

• Goal: Create content, for self-publishing, distribution, monetization

Highlights • Supports STEAM on multiple levels.

• Targets middle school students and gives them hands on experimental experience that are environmentally based.

• High school students get resume building, job preparing leadership and mentoring experience while engaging in STEAM curriculum.

• All students learn about research & development factories such as: USC ICT, UCLA-(MEMES), and CAL-TECH, while the science-coding students conduct research and develop products, such as: autonomous robots, apps, etc.

• Media students will create content that can be shown to other students, potential colleges/employers, friends, family and others in the community.

Long Beach Film Festival, August 30th- Sept 3rd http://www.longbeachindie.hollywoodpost.com/

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Sample Project 6-Week

STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy Instructor-In-Chief EVETTE VARGAS -----------------------------------------------------------------CEO/WRITER/DIRECTOR/EXEC PRODUCER TV + VR + MULTIPLATTFORM STORYTELLER -----------------------------------------------------------------DIGITAL • REIGN Evette Vargas is emblematic of Hollywood’s new breed of multiplatform storytelling talent. Named by the New York Times as an “Artist to Watch,” Vargas is an award-winning writer, director, producer, multiplatform and Virtual Reality creator. Co-founder of Digital-Reign, an emerging media production company, Vargas' work includes series for Amazon, MTV, Bravo, DirectTV; as well as writing, apps, games and branded entertainment for FAST & FURIOUS, LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy and Madonna. Vargas executive produced, wrote and directed her digital series DARK PROPHET, starring Henry Rollins. The series was nominated for two Emmys, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is available on Amazon Prime. The Virtual Reality series will premiere on the Sony PlayStation VR. Vargas recently sold her one-hour series MUSES to Turner Broadcasting Super Deluxe, is developing her show TRANS with Electus, and her series TEMPEST with The Wolper Organization. Vargas has optioned her Y.A. series, THE SPECTORS, to Campanario Productions. Vargas’ slate of VR projects includes the VR experience for The Weinstein Company feature film, THE CURRENT WAR, starring Benedict Cumberbatch. Vargas is also writing and producing two VR projects based on her original IPs, one of which she is producing with Michael Bay’s VR company, The Rogue Initiative.

Vargas is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Producers Guild of America and serves on the advisory board of the Alliance of Women Directors. Vargas earned her BFA in Directing and Film/TV Production from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her MFA from UCLA for Screenwriting with a concentration in Television Showrunning. Vargas was born in the Bronx and learned to tell stories at the dinner table with her family where the imagination ruled.

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STEAMS Summer Bridge Academy CONTACT

Kevin Clark

Dakar Foundation For The Performing Arts 20954 Bryant Street Suite 18 Canoga Park, Ca 91304 Email: kevin@homageusa.net 310 466 3123