PROJECT DETAILS

Timeline

Tools

• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Illustrator
• Adobe XD
  
• Procreate 
• Plural Eyes 4

• Sony Alpha 6300
  
• C stand
  
• Tripod stand
• Arri Lighting
• Auray Boom Pole
• Rode Video Mic

Role

• Scope and timeline management 
• Interviewing
• Ethnography
• Filming live action B-roll 
• Directing B-roll
• Creative directing
• Video editing
• Music selection
• Sound engineering
• Illustrating
• Animating
• Titling

People

About CCC Maker, Make, and Sierra College

• The $17 million California Community College (CCC) Maker initiative was the first statewide community college system effort in the US that intentionally aimed to align 21^st Century skills with STEM/STEAM research and practice.
• Make is an American magazine published since June 2019 which focuses on Do It Yourself projects involving electronics, metalworking, robotics, woodworking and other disciplines.
  

• Sierra College Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs prepare students for entry into professional level employment opportunities. 
  

My Why

Outputs

• Medium: From Student to Entrepreneur
• CCC Maker Video Series
• CCC Maker: The Impact and Potential of College Makerspaces
• Make: Hands That Make
• Sierra College CTE Video Collection

Recognition

• 2019 Speaker at the make/SHIFT Conference hosted by NACCE

To accelerate awareness and impact of maker education.

It is a groundbreaking and momentous time for creators, doers, artists, disruptors, and hackers. Even more revolutionary, is bringing this mindset into the institution of higher education. 

CHALLENGE

Novice with a gift.

CCC Maker saw something in my storytelling that made an impact. I went from filming students in the Sacramento City College Makerspace on my iPhone 6 to organizing, scheduling, directing, editing, and producing a shortform docu-series about Makerspaces across California.

APPROACH

Empathize and create.

For each organization, I produced videos that featured makerspaces and/or programs involved in hands-on, project-based learning. Being a maker myself, it wasn’t difficult to empathize with each interviewee, considering most of them were makers and extremely passionate about what they do.

SOLUTION

Visualizing the big picture.

Crafting stories is like putting the pieces of a puzzle together until you’re left with the big picture. For the CCC Maker Project, capturing the whole story required input from everyone across the maker ecosystem. I interviewed students, faculty, administrators, deans, presidents, and local business owners, understanding their relationships with maker-centered learning and weaving together emotionally charged stories that move us. 

For the Sierra College CTE project, I used a similar approach - empathizing with students and other members of the Sierra College ecosystem in order to tell the full story and impact of combining theory with project-based education. 

RESULT

Paradigm shift in education.

Through these videos, we gave maker-centered learning a spotlight - highlighting the fact that this shift in education will lead to a more cost-effective and productive economy. Socially, they prove that makerspaces provide students with a feeling of belonging and skills that mirror collaboration in the workplace. Environmentally, the videos show how makerspaces provide think tanks within colleges, supporting projects and businesses that sprout out of the passion and ingenuity of students who wish to positively effect our environment.