Last week to submit your media to the Boston Clubhouse Film Festival

Posted: June 11, 2013 in The Beat
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Attention Clubhouse members:  This is the last week to submit your work to the Boston Clubhouse Film Festival.  This is an excellent opportunity to showcase the amazing work you’ve done since the fall.  We are having the festival on June 28 at the Museum of Science in Chaners Theater.

Click here to submit your work.  Check out below for guidelines.

  • Video must be less than 10 minutes
  • “Clubhouse-Friendly”
  • Created within the past academic year (Sept-June)

To be eligible, you must submit your media before June 15.

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Clubhouse Jams in June

Posted: June 5, 2013 in The Beat
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Last Friday the Clubhouse took another awesome adventure into Cambridge.  Thanks to Computer Clubhouse mentor and volunteer Muazzez, Clubhouse members were able to visit the control center for Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.  The Chandra telescope allows scientists from around the world to obtain X-ray images of exotic environments to help understand the structure and evolution of the universe.  Dr. Michael Juda gave Clubhouse members and mentors a tour around the facilities.  He walked us through the production of the Chandra X-ray Telescope and we were then able to see the control room where Nasa workers were checking the health of the telescope.  It was an incredible learning experience that youth and mentors will remember long into the future.

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Last week Our Space Our Place came for a visit to the Clubhouse.  Our Space Our Place prepare blind youth for their future as productive and successful adults by promoting their self confidence, determination and social and independent living skills through activities which support self exploration of college and career opportunities.  During  their visit one of their youth, Rakime produced an awesome and catchy jam that we’ve been playing around the Clubhouse.  Check it out here:

Stay tuned to clubhousebeat.org to find out about summer happenings and upcoming C2C speakers.

C2C Comin’ @ Ya’

Posted: May 30, 2013 in The Beat
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Clubhouse members and mentors took an adventure out to Cambridge last Friday to check out Cambridge Access Television.  Neha Agrawal, Youth Media Coordinator at CCTV and guest speaker from the Adobe Youth Voices Documentary Volunteer Internship, gave an awesome tour of CCTV’s facilitates.  Clubhouse members learned the resources available to them at their local access television stations.  They are able to take out equipment, have their own television show, radio show, and take a variety of classes on media production.  They also sat down together and watch some moving media produced by youth at CCTV.  Afterwards each member shared about the project they are currently working on or an idea they want follow further.  The field trip was a neat experience for members to keep in their back pocket when being resourceful about producing high quality media.  To learn more about local access television stations in Massachusetts or CCTV visit communitymedia.se/cat/linksma.htm.

C2C FIELD TRIP TOMORROW:

This Friday the Clubhouse will be taking a field trip to Chandra Operations Control Center at MIT where we will be able to look at Nasa’s X-Ray Observatory Telescope.  This is a stellar opportunity to learn about astronomy and see first hand what scientist use to determine what’s in our atmosphere.  Meet at the Clubhouse for 3:15 p.m. to get to the Observatory for a 4:00 p.m. tour.  Contact Ellen Daoust, Clubhouse-to-College/Career Fellow at edaoust@mos.org for directions and more information.

Stay tuned to clubhousebeat.org to find out about summer happenings at the Flagship Clubhouse!

Submit Your Media Today: Boston Clubhouse Film Festival

Posted: May 22, 2013 in The Beat
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Computer Filmhouse Members, get pumped!  The Flagship will be hosting a film festival featuring work from Clubhouse Members around the Boston area.  Now is the time to submit your work to be showcased at the Museum of Science in Chaners Theater on June 28th.

The only guidelines are that:

  • Video must be less than 10 minutes
  • “Clubhouse-Friendly”
  • Created within the past academic year (Sept-June)

To be eligible, you must submit your media before June 17.

Submit your work here or visit our Computer Filmhouse page on this blog.

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May Making in the Clubhouse

Posted: May 14, 2013 in The Beat
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So far May has been a “month of making” in the Clubhouse.  The Universal Design Workshops continue with some innovative and creative projects.  Manny, Eric, Santa, and Hughey are fully fleshing out their projects that are centered around making games for youth that have difficulty seeing.  Project range from games with the Makey-Makey using sound recognition, to texturized rubik’s cubes, to games that deal with figuring out the scents of food.

Our two wonderful Fenway Highschool interns have been working hard creating a stop animation about recycling, experimenting with bread boards, and using LED lights to create bookmarks.  This is their last week at the Clubhouse and we are sad to see them go!  Be sure to check out their tutorials on the village if you are interested in learning new technology.

This past week we had several visits from cool organizations.  Science Club for Girls stopped by and participated in the Clubhouse Astronomy Poetry Workshop led by Clubhouse volunteer Muazezz.  Muazezz showed Science Club for Girls the Astronomy Picture of the Day which can be found at apod.nasa.gov/apod.  She also shared her knowledge about the universe which inspired the girls to create paintings, poems, and drawings of the universe.  These will soon be showcased and hung up on our wall at the clubhouse!

Don’t forget that Friday May 31 from 4-5 pm we will visit the Operation/Control Center for Chandra X-ray Observatory – NASA’s flagship X-ray telescope, a very cool space telescope, but controlled at a place near MIT.  Learn more here: chandra.harvard.edu.  We will leave the Clubhouse at 3:15 p.m.

On Thursday the Clubhouse had a visit from the Theatre Offensive, an organization that presents the diverse realities of queer lives in art to break through personal isolation and political orthodoxy to help build an honest, progressive community.  A group of youth ages 16-22 gave a personal and meaningful presentation for Clubhouse youth.  In exchange Clubhouse Members Manny and Smi-ILL showcased their music and video work.  Check out below our upcoming C2C field trips.

C2C Field Trips:

May 24 the Clubhouse will be taking a field trip to Cambridge Access Community Television!  We will meet at the Clubhouse at 3:15 p.m. for a 4:00 p.m. tour.

May 31 the Clubhouse will visit Control Center for Chandra X-ray Observatory – NASA’s flagship X-ray telescope.  Meet at the Clubhouse at 3:15 p.m. for a 4:00 p.m. tour.

Hot off the press: Flagship Clubhouse Members are finalist for the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards

Posted: May 7, 2013 in The Beat
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Two of our Clubhouse Members, Khoa Truong and Sarah Lynch, have made it into the finalist round for the Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards.

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       Sarah Lynch’s project in the finalist category of documentary can be found here.

Khoa Truong’s project in the finalist category of animation can be found here.

Since they are in the Finalist round, the projects are now eligible for the 1st, 2nd, and/or Audience Award prizes. The Audience Award is given away in each category and it will be up to the audience to decide the winners.

How Votes are Counted:

  • Share their project via social media, promoting, word of mouth
  • Vote through Facebook and Twitter
  • Each Like, Share, Tweet, and Re-Tweet counts as a vote

Voting goes until June 8, 2013.   Thank you and let the voting begin!

Clubhouse is back open

Posted: May 4, 2013 in The Beat
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The Clubhouse is back in action today.  We are open normal hours this upcoming week.  Tuesday-Thursday we are open from 2:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m., Friday from 2:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. and Saturday noon-5:00 p.m.

Jackie and Ellen learned some awesome stuff this past week at the Annual Conference.  Be sure to ask them to show you pictures and teach you the new tech and art they learned!  Check out a sneak peek of what went down this week in the gallery above.

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