Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Patricia Cogley from
Adobe Youth Voices attended and spoke at the event which consisted of over
a 200 youth artists and displayed close to 130 inspiring multimedia products
created in the BPS Adobe Youth Voices classrooms this year. The youth artists
had an opportunity to discuss their work with invited guests from the Boston
Public Schools and the community.
The Program also featured an awards assembly
that highlighted “BEST of BPS AYV Projects”. During the assembly the
Mayor congratulated the students. Other featured speakers included message from
Superintendent Johnson, Ligia Noriega-Murphy (Asst. Superintendent High School
Level, Melissa Dodd (CIO, Office of Instructional and Information Technology)
and Patricia Cogley (Senior Program Manager, Adobe Youth Voices).
You can still vote for our four BPS Adobe
Aspire awards finalists by clicking by following these instructions
Congratulations to all the BPS educators
and the 900 students from all the middle-and high schools who participated in
Adobe Youth Voices in school year 2011-2012! We are very pleased to
announce that BPS has received grant funding from Adobe Foundation to continue
the program in school year 2012 – 2013! We are currently recruiting a cohort of
50 new and returning Adobe Youth Voices educators to participate in the
summer professional development training and the year-long project. For more
information, please contact: Rashmi Pimprikar @ 617.593.8163,
rpimprikar@boston.k12.ma.us
Please visit the BPS Adobe Youth Voices Project
site to apply online (www.tinyurl.com/BPSAYVApplication2012-13) and
to download the Annual Educator contract and program calendar at http://bpsayvproject.wikispaces.com
1 comment:
Encouraging event for youths to do more creative. Looking to be in such events.
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