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4-H Goes Digital
The Tech Wizards after-school program uses technology to introduce Latino students to careers and educational pathways in science, technology, engineering, and math.
Release Date: 5/27/2009
Running Time: 04:53
Video Credits
Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Carl Bidleman
Coordinating Producer
- Lauren Rosenfeld
Editor
- Steve Jensen
Camera Crew
- Lyle Morgan
- Jesse Nordhausen
- Ted Cutler
Production Support
- Amy Erin Borovoy
Production Assistant
- Doug Keely
Narrator
- Kris Welch
Senior Video Editor
- Karen Sutherland
Executive Producer
- Ken Ellis
- © 2009
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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Glossary
Web 2.0: The second generation of the World Wide Web, expecially the movement away from static Web pages to dynamic and shareable content and social networking.
Lego Robotics: A line of Lego kits used to explore robotics, mechanical systems, electronics, and programming.
Geographic information system (GIS): A system that integrates hardware, software, and data for capturing, managing, analyzing, and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.
Sources: Wiktionary.com, GIS.com
Discussion Questions
1. Are you surprised to see 4-H involved with digital technology? Is this involvement a natural extension of its traditional focus on agricultural education? Why, or why not?
2. How is mentoring a central component to the Tech Wizards program?
3. What is the educational impact of the Tech Wizards program? Would a program like this work in your community?
4-H Goes Digital
In light of recent news about the number of black students dropping out of high school each year, clearly programs like these and academies keep children in school. It is time to institute school programs that work and which will work especially in dire economic times.