PLHS senior wins CW5 filmmaking contest
Point Loma High School senior Blaise O’Dell recently won the San Diego CW5 network’s “Living Your Natural High” video contest with his video titled “Filmmaking.” The unique short film beat out many others from all over San Diego, earning O’Dell a $500 shopping spree to Sun Diego, a local skate and surf shop, along with airtime for his video on the San Diego CW5 network.
Over the years, Point Loma High School has taught many talented film students, including producer Chris Brinker and animator Michael Ford. O’Dell may well be following in their footsteps, according to contest organizers.
O’Dell’s short film displays his passion for filmmaking as a substitute for doing drugs or drinking. To view, visit www.google.com and enter “Blaise O’Dell and Natural High Contest.”
Currently, the ROP Multimedia Production at Point Loma High is led by first-year teacher Anthony Palmiotto, who is also finishing his master’s degree while teaching at Point Loma High.
ROP is a professional career development program that offers a multitude of courses open to all residents who are 16 years of age or older. Through this public service, individuals can receive vocational and technical training, career counseling and placement instruction.
With 250 tuition-free courses offered throughout 22 different San Diego County high school and community college districts, students are prepared to meet business and industry needs and standards on current and future labor market demands.
For more information, visit http://www.sdcoe.net/rop.
OASIS tutoring program now seeking volunteers
The OASIS Intergenerational Tutoring Program is seeking volunteers to work one-on-one with children in grades kindergarten through 4th once a week at Ocean Beach, Sunset View, Silvergate, Cabrillo and Dewey elementary schools.
No experience is required on the part of volunteers, according to program organizers.
Training and materials are supplied, and volunteers are asked only to bring their enthusiasm and love of reading.
Training will be held Jan. 29, Jan. 31, Feb. 5 and Feb. 7 from 12:30 to 3 p.m. at the OASIS Center on the third floor of Macy’s Department Store, 1702 Camino del Rio North in Mission Valley.
For more information, call (619) 296-2594, or e-mail [email protected].
HTH media arts exhibit due to hit museum
Students from High Tech High Media Arts will soon be bringing the invisible to light during an exhibition designed to expose hidden paradigms, underground cultures and unresolved issues.
Twenty-two seniors will display their work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Downtown San Diego on Wednesday, Jan. 9 during a show from 7 to 9 pm.
According to show organizers, these exposé-styled projects will manifest as pictorial/sound essays, documentaries and video installations designed to immerse the viewer in an experience of critical thinking through multimedia art.
The inaugural class of High Tech High’s Media Arts program represents the first set of students to take classes in the school’s sound lab, where they used cutting-edge technologies to showcase information gathered from expert interviews and critical investigations of San Diego’s professional, cultural and institutional communities.
High Tech High Media Arts is a collaborative environment in which teachers function more as facilitators than traditional instructors. This teaching style coordinates in-depth studies that immerse students in interdisciplinary project-based learning.
For more information on exhibition works and a list of participants, visit http://staff.hthma.hightechhigh.org/~mnoble/seniorfall2007/.