The weekend of February 26-27 was a whirlwind trip to Washington, DC, where youth from the Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy and Seattle's Youth Media Intitute, participated in the Department of Education’s Youth Summit, performing the song 20/20 Vision for a live audience at Howard University. The weekend included an opportunity for the students to connect with other young leaders from across the country, a Q&A session with the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as well as plenty of sight seeing around the nation’s capital.
The weekend of February 26-27 was a whirlwind trip to Washington, DC, where youth from the Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy and Seattle's Youth Media Intitute, participated in the Department of Education’s Youth Summit, performing the song 20/20 Vision for a live audience at Howard University. The weekend included an opportunity for the students to connect with other young leaders from across the country, a Q&A session with the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, as well as plenty of sight seeing around the nation’s capital.
This project is a unique narrative presented in stop motion using still photos. It is about a student named Angel who chronicles his high school experience going from a student who gets into trouble into a student who strives to work towards graduation. His exp…