Gear Up – Edge Magazine, Vol. 2, Spring 2007
A Student Magazine of Arts and Letters
and “Geared Up To Give Back”
The Hurricane Katrina Research
and Service Learning Project
An Adjunct Project Featured in the 2007 Issue
Throughout the course of the 2006 – 2007 school year a seventh grade science class and eighth grade social studies/language arts class at Asa Mercer Middle School in Seattle, WA participated in “Geared Up To Give Back”, a special project in association with Gear Up’s Edge Magazine.
The students in Gear Up’s ‘Geared Up To Give Back’ Edge Magazine Hurricane Katrina Project participated in a learning workshop series. Students learned about Hurricane Katrina first hand from people involved in the storm, it’s aftermath and related issues. The learning workshop series also helped prepare a contingent of students who would represent the project on a service learning trip to New Orleans.
In May of 2007 eighteen students participating in the project traveled to New Orleans to do volunteer work, tour the worst affected areas, document their activities and write reflectively about their experiences. Their mission was to learn more about Hurricane Katrina while helping in the effort to restore the city and then report back to their community using Edge Magazine as a vehicle.
The project stemmed from Inye Wokoma’s work in New Orleans covering the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina for ColorsNW Magazine. While on assignment Inye had several conversations with New Orleanians working to rebuild their city. The project was the direct result of one of these conversations. As a media driven research and service learning project, “Geared Up To Give Back” represent the kind of project that Edge Media seeks to provide for youth.
To read more and view multimedia visit the project website: www.ijoarts.com/edge/Katrina/
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