1. Firmed up the dates for the session. We opted for a Monday-Friday from 9am-Noon, June 18-22 and 25-29. There is an understanding that a few of these days we will probably meet in the evening due to the timing of some of the arts and culture events that are going on in the community. For instance, Life After Dark, a new arts initiative starts at 6pm on June 20th...so I will probably ask a few students if they could join me that evening instead of during the day so that we could shoot the event.
2. Called and spoke with Jen Hyatt at Burr and Burton Academy. Jen Hyatt is in charge of all the Service Learning projects at the school...and we called to make sure that we made it clear we were definitely interested in taking part in the summer session. We also wanted to make sure that the dates that we were thinking of weren't conflicting with graduation, etc...or if she thought we should push things off to a later date. She confirmed that the dates seemed fine and that she would add us to the list that students will have access to to choose their summer service project.
3. Discussed a possible name for the Initiative. Garrett seemed to like "Arts Alive"...I will have to check with Beth Meachem, head of the Greater Manchester Arts Council to see if that will be a problem being that Burlington uses that name for there arts initiative in town that is similar to that of the "Life After Dark" campaign in our region.
4. I talked to Garrett about the editing portion of our Summer Initiative. GNAT-TV uses Final Cut Pro, which is a program that I am not familiar with. He is going to try and find time for one of his workers to give me the overview on the program (most important commands, etc). That way I will be prepared to teach the kids how to use the program which will be important for week 2 of the summer initiative.
