First Career Academy Camp
"GearUp New Mexico for the Future: Innovative Careers Collaborative"
Regional students met with "real-life" professionals
and enjoyed hands-on learning activities exploring
Film, Green, and Tech Careers in New Mexico.
"GearUp New Mexico for the Future: Innovative Careers Collaborative"
Regional students met with "real-life" professionals
and enjoyed hands-on learning activities exploring
Film, Green, and Tech Careers in New Mexico.
Participating 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
Program
Film Career Academy
Students in the film program will step right into the role of filmmaker and experience each ley7 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.
About the Film Career 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.
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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
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Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon: Working as a team, personal story, looking under the hood of short films, terms and roles, intro to cinematography
Day 2: production, lights, camera, directing, interviewing, audio, shooting team., creative cinematography, in-camera animation
Day 3/Morning: Screening resulting media to the larger camp group
Day 1/Afternoon: Working as a team, personal story, looking under the hood of short films, terms and roles, intro to cinematography
Day 2: production, lights, camera, directing, interviewing, audio, shooting team., creative cinematography, in-camera animation
Day 3/Morning: Screening resulting media to the larger camp group
Tech Career Academy
Students in the Tech Career Academy will be introduced to Creative Coding and will step right into the role of computer coder to learn about the variety of coding languages. as well as the range of careers possible for coders. Each student will explore a variety of functions possible through coding, to create multi-media artworks including animation, sound, image, and video.
About the Tech Career Mentor
Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon: what code is, history of computers, history and varieties of different coding languages, different careers requiring and/or benefiting from code. Plus, learn the difference between coding and computer science and what to study if you want to code.
Day 2: Hands-on day of coding to work through and play with progressively more challenging, complicated, and 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.
Day 1/Afternoon: what code is, history of computers, history and varieties of different coding languages, different careers requiring and/or benefiting from code. Plus, learn the difference between coding and computer science and what to study if you want to code.
Day 2: Hands-on day of coding to work through and play with progressively more challenging, complicated, and 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.
Green Career Academy
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.
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.
Students in the Green Career program will enjoy an introduction to green technologies including renewable energy, aaquaponics, and energy efficiency and find out what it is like to work with these technologies from area green industry professionals.
About the Green Career 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.
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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.
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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.
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Schedule
Day 1/Afternoon: Overall discussion and introduction to green technologies
Day 2:: Tour 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. Roundtable discussion with professionals in green industries, sharing insights and answering questions
Day 3/Morning: Reporting back to the group, closing discussion on career opportunities and moving forward into green technology.
Day 1/Afternoon: Overall discussion and introduction to green technologies
Day 2:: Tour 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. Roundtable discussion with professionals in green industries, sharing insights and answering questions
Day 3/Morning: Reporting back to the group, closing discussion on career opportunities and moving forward into green technology.
Meet some of the local educators, professionals, and community leaders
that helped to make the first Career Academy a success:
With special thanks to all of the local collaborating organizations including:
CommUNITY Learning Network
a New-Mexico born and locally-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to "building community through real-life learning in real-life places with real-life people." S.E.E. Southwest Experiential Education, Youth Ambassadors, and New Mexico Career Academy are all part of the organization's New Mexico TechWorks and "Love Where We Live" initiatives. www.communitylearningnetwork.org |
E.N.L.A.C.E.- Northeastern New Mexico
ENLACE stands for Engaging LAtino Communities for Education. This project is a multiyear initiative to strengthen the K-20 educational pipeline and increase opportunities for Latino/as to enter and complete college. ENLACE aims to serve as a catalyst to strengthen partnerships and create coalitions among Hispanic-serving institutions (colleges and universities with 25 percent or more Hispanic enrollment), K-12 school districts, communities, businesses, families, and other funders that are working to increase opportunities for Latinos to enter and complete college. ENLACE in New Mexico was initially funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is now funded by the New Mexico State Legislature. Northeastern New Mexico E.N.L.A.C.E. |
Littleglobe "LITTLEGLOBE is committed to interdisciplinary, collaborative art projects that foster life-affirming connections across the boundaries that divide us. Littleglobe partners with local, national and international communities to create rigorous artistic works that create meaningful relationships, empower individuals and communities, and reflect the power of our social imagination .Over 200 artists have been engaged in Littleglobe projects. Nearly 2000 children, youth, adults and elders have participated in Littleglobe community projects. More than 16,000 audience members in 51 locations have experienced art and performace co-created by community members and Littleglobe." www.littleglobe.org
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New Mexico Department of Higher Education and 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 |
Santa Fe’s Green Chamber of Commerce works to build a sustainable community of local businesses that are environmentally sound, economically viable and socially responsible through action, advocacy and education. Advocating for green public policy and issues that support sustainable business, Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce actively lobby for community solar power, clean energy and energy efficiency, as well as issues that promote green jobs and a better business climate in Santa Fe, and hosts Green Lunches, Green Drinks, and an annual Green Festival, Green Drinks, and Green lunches, plus publishes an annual business directory that goes to tens of thousands of New Mexicans.
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The McCune Charitable Foundation - The Marshall L. and Perrine D. McCune Charitable Foundation is dedicated to enriching the health, education, environment, cultural, and spiritual life of New Mexicans. The Foundation memorializes its benefactors through proactive grantmaking that seeks to foster positive social change. the McCune Foundation as an "emerging harbormaster" for innovative learning models. The Foundation is among ten other organizations across the country helping to expand new school models on a local and national scale.
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The New Mexico Film Office is a division of the Economic Development Department and serves the film and television industry locally, nationally and internationally. Our purpose is to market the state to this industry, service the productions and promote jobs for New Mexicans. We offer many resources to producers, film crew and local filmmakers. We work diligently to assist productions with finding potential filming locations. The State Film Office consults with productions regarding the financial aspects of their projects, guiding them through the incentives such as the 25% Refundable Film Production Tax Credit and the Film Investment Loan Program. We connect productions with the crew, vendor services and film liaisons throughout the state. In addition to promoting and providing production services, the film office is initiating emerging media opportunities for the state and working to expand industry infrastructure. The support of New Mexican filmmakers is a priority for this division as is expanding the Statewide Film Liaison Network, promoting Educational Outreach and leading the state in the NM Film Tourism Initiative.
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Santa Fe Community College and the Trades and Advanced Technologu Center offer a broad curriculum that includes associate in applied science degrees in building science and construction technologies, drafting and engineering technologies, greenhouse management and sustainable technologies, among others.
SunPower by Positive Energy Solar, is a local, employee owned, Certified B Corp solar installer. The company offers high performance solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, governmental and non-profit customers in New Mexico. Since 1997, the company has installed more than 13MW of solar delivering significant electricity savings and a superior customer experience. Selected by SunPower to represent the globally trusted brand, SunPower by Positive Energy Solar is proud to partner with one of the world’s most innovative and sustainable energy companies, leveraging 30 years of industry experience and providing customers with the highest efficiency solar panels available today. Visit www.positiveenergysolar.com.
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