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August 7, 2011 by Bob Leave a Comment

Link to photos of flight

They made it! Here are some links related to the flight:

TWITTER FEED: You can track the flight log using twitter  — www.twitter.com/#lindbergh2011

PHOTOS (thanks to Craig Ellison)

https://picasaweb.google.com/craiger953/Mediatech2011OpenHous

MEDIA COVERAGE
Boys simulate Charles Lindbergh’s 33-hour flight across Atlantic Ocean
Published: Sunday, August 07, 2011, 10:10 PM  http://bit.ly/nW7Tdw

THE LANDING

A Tense Landing

 

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July 28, 2011 by Bob Leave a Comment

Spirit of St. Louis Flight Weekend Agenda

SATURDAY Aug 6
• 8:30 AM Pre-flight interviews
• 8:50 Engines start!
• 8:52 Takeoff, Roosevelt Field, Long Island
• 11:50 Nova Scotia; Ocean ahead! (all times are EST)

COMMUNITY ROOM THEATER
12:00 Movie “Across the Atlantic: Behind the Lindbergh Legend” http://youtu.be/oR1FkSasydM in the community room.
1:00 Movie “The Spirit of St. Louis” with Jimmy Stewart (2 hours)
3:00 SCRATCH Project showcase (projects from the summer SCRATCH class).

• 5:30 PM Main Street Car Show: Hotrods
• 7:00 PM Marshall’s Dixieland Jazz Band Concert (library courtyard, weather permitting)
• 11:00 Mediatech closed to all but chaperones, staff, press and pilots.

SUNDAY Aug 7
• 2:00 AM 1/2 way, open water!
• 9:00 Mediatech opens to public. Fishing boats spotted.
• 9:52 Landfall, Ireland!
• 12:00 England

COMMUNITY ROOM THEATER
12:00 Movie “Across the Atlantic: Behind the Lindbergh Legend” http://youtu.be/oR1FkSasydM in the community room followed by YouTube highlights of vintage reel footage of the takeoff.

• 2:00 France in site (times may vary at this point!)
• 3:22 Landing Le Bourget Aerodrome, Paris, France.
• 4:00 Celebration

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June 23, 2010 by buckleit Leave a Comment

Details about Mediatech’s Programming Camp for Kids, 2010

Mediatech’s Programming Camp for Kids, 2010

See pictures from last year’s session, here.

SESSION 1: August 2-6 (Monday through Friday, 9:30 AM to noon)

SESSION 2: August 9-13 (Monday through Friday, 9:30 AM to noon)

ABOUT THE CAMP: Mediatech’s Programming Camp for Kids is a one-week, morning camp for children aged 6-15 years of age designed to introduce the principles of creating digital content. The objective is to give participants an open-ended environment where they can develop and then apply their digital creativity skills. Enrollment is limited to 14 on a first-come, first-served basis, and no experience is necessary. Participants are asked to come with their own USB flash drive to store work. A $10/day payment is requested, but is not mandatory—this is a suggested donation. The camp curriculum has been designed by Warren Buckleitner, and is will be taught by volunteers with the help of two teenage counselors.  Parents are encouraged to visit to observe or help.

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December 16, 2009 by buckleit Leave a Comment

Help us Make “Flemington’s Got Stories”

Help us tell his story.....

Building on Will Richardson’s FAME idea, Flemington’s Got Stories is an idea to create a local documentary project.

Project Name: FLEMINGTON’S GOT STORIES

Organization Name: Mediatech Foundation
Address: 118 Main Street (2nd Floor) City: Flemington State: NJ Zip Code: 08822
Phone: 908-284-2006
Fax: 908-284-0405
Web site: www.mediatech.org

Project Description: This is an American Idol-like event designed to highlight digital reporting on a local level. In order to enter, residents must apply their digital publishing abilities, either on their own or with the help of the volunteers at Mediatech, a library-based technology center. We will try this in one town (Flemington, NJ, pop. 5000) as a test. The project could be applied to any community; just change the name. If successful, the project can sustain itself with local sponsorships. The stars of this project are found in any town. These are the people you see, but take for granted, like Archie, an 83-year old WWII vet who is well known on our grocery store PA system. When he says “fresh bread, straight out of the oven,” people line up. But nobody knows his last name, what he did in the war or where he lives. Tomas is a bright, 12-year-old refugee from Central Africa, who rides a seatless bike to the library. He has an uncanny ability for mastering the nuances of English and middle school culture. Whenever he sees a dog, he gets sad however; remembered a pet he left behind, and (perhaps) a story waiting to be told. Eleven-year-old Maggie has been called an “illegal” on the street because she her parents are first generation immigrants from Mexico. Few people know that Irma’s mother is the inventor of the famous sauce at a successful restaurant. A cooking documentary could share the recipe.

This project has six parts. (1) Upgrade the technology in an existing library-based technology center with video editing stations and coaches; (2) host free, weekly digital publishing workshops for residents; (3) enhance an existing WordPress blog with embedded video samples; (4) host a public “American Idol” style contest in the summer; (5) award a scholarship to an aspiring journalist, and (6) create a dissemination video so that others can replicate this plan.

6. How will your project improve the way news and information are delivered to geographic communities? By significantly increasing a town’s public access to affordable, powerful digital publishing technologies, and then by giving people a reason to use the technology, we’ll make it possible for any person to apply new digital skills. They may be in front of the camera, or working as a video editor. Or they may simply bring in a box of old photos to be digitized by a young volunteer. The recruiting tool will be your ego. Once you’ve edited and uploaded your first video, or seen a collection of a neighbor’s digital family album set to a symphony, you feel a sense of empowerment, or perhaps see somebody familiar, in a new way.

7. How is your idea innovative? Video harvesting initiatives and community technology centers are not new ideas. But combining the two, with a mix of YouTube, Flickr, Facebook and fresh coffee, plus an “American Idol” style contest to feed your ego, is a new mix. Thanks to Moore’s law, we now have cheaper, better technology to use, including cheap and powerful HD cameras, flat screens, and nearly unlimited storage. The cost vs. power ratio has swung toward the direction of this idea. This is an early attempt to use this recent technology.

Mediatech is the ideal center to host this effort, and it is in need of an annual fundraising effort. Mediatech is a five-year old experiment in our town library that has been cited by Governor Jon S. Corzine for “helping to keep New Jersey at the forefront of scientific and technological innovation” (http://bit.ly/4vsfpn). The open-source Mediatech recipe can be created by any school or library. The concept was initially inspired from a center in Northern Italy; the relationship is explained here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4h8W5bhRyc.

We have proven to ourselves and our own town that we can turn a small investment into a digital oasis by harnessing a common vision and dedicated volunteers.  This project — Flemington’s Got Stories is a natural extension the Mediatech’s mission, to create better life with technology.

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