Operation Filmmaker Goes Science

Operation Filmmaker Goes Science is a new summer camp that brings together art and science, teaching students how to process and communicate information while learning the creative and technical skills of making a documentary film.

This three-week camp, a collaboration between the Mag Lab’s Center for Integrating Research & Learning and the Character & Heritage Institute, is open to middle and high school students. It was developed in close collaboration with research scientists and educators as well as media producers and consultants.

Advancing through three stages of production necessary to produce a film, students will receive instruction on the theory and the equipment involved in filmmaking. All students will participate, start to finish, in the making of a 10-minute documentary on a science-related topic. The camp culminates in a special showing of student films.

Students will be exposed to documentary topics such as global warming, space exploration and conservation of resources. Ultimately, Operation Filmmaker Goes Science helps students become intelligent consumers of information so that they become educated on the needs vital to preserve our society. Tuition is $500 and covers all costs for the three-week camp.

Space is limited. An online registration form is available from the Character & Heritage Institute.

For more information contact Pat Dixon at pdixon@magnet.fsu.edu or (850) 644-4707.