PARIS 2012

Having fun in Paris, 2 first weeks visiting the city, learning some french and making new friends along the way.

Rising Seniors Lunch

On Friday the 13th (Ooooh! Spooooky!) we took an hour or so to unwind! The coordinators, rising seniors, and a few mentors enjoyed a lunch together and chatted about the week, apricots, and hair.

Emoti-Con! o.O

The Emoti-Con event was held at Parsons on June 2, where NYC youth showcased digital technology creations and engaged in conversations about the role of technology. Our senior scholars participated with the submission of their Beyond Bullets PSAs, the juniors presented their short horror flicks, and the sophomore scholars joined in the activities hosted by Emoti-Con to support the juniors and seniors, and to start generating ideas for next year. Guest speakers presented their work, spoke about their careers in relevant industries and shared their learning experiences as artists, designers and inventors.

More info about the day can be found here. 

Scholars enjoying their lunches, Emoti-Con t-shirts and gift bags!


Lessons learned...
Poster, logo, t-shirt designed by our own Parsons undergrad mentors, Richard Pean and Deja Holden!

Parsons Scholars Festival Exhibition recap!

On Saturday, May 12, 2012, Parsons Scholars celebrated the opening of their Festival Exhibition! Many thanks to sophomore and junior scholars who volunteered (while seniors were in class) and faculty and staff who hung each piece in preparations for the show!
Senior scholars first presented the PSA's they created with faculty Shola Ajayi, which were films educating teenagers about gun violence, created in response to their Senior Capstone Project. The presentation was followed by a Q&A session from peers and guests.

Family, friends and peers saw the selected works made by students, which were distributed throughout the 12th floor of the 6 East 16th street building, including a project submission dedicated to the Trayvon Martin case, seen below.


Congratulations to the Parsons Scholars, faculty and staff for the great work and a successful show!!!

Photos by Tanya-Linn Albrigtsen-Frable.

Beyond Bullets PSA's

Finally... presenting the two public service announcements created by the class of 2012 in the Parsons Scholars Program!


These short films were created after the seniors decided they wanted to do more to spread an anti-gun violence message to their peers during their graphic design collaboration with Beyond Bullets for this year's senior capstone project . 


Big thanks to Beyond Bullets for posting about the Scholars' collaboration on their blog and to Shola Ajayi for her expertise and guidance throughout the filmmaking process. 


Spread the message!


REWIND

WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

And last but not least, the outtakes to prove all of the hard work that went into creating these serious shots!

For more of the behind-the-scenes, check out more of the seniors' process on our Vimeo page.

Horror Flicks!

These three short horror films were made by Parsons Scholars juniors during a festive filmmaking workshop led by Shola Ajayi over the Halloween weekend last fall.  After the Scholars learned how to use HD video cameras, they worked in groups to create plots and storyboards and filmed around the Parsons campus in under 30 minutes. They then learned how to edit their films using iMovie and Adobe After Effects.  


Watch if you dare!

For more videos created by other Parsons Scholars, visit our Vimeo page at:

www.vimeo.com/parsonsscholars

Social Justice Expo!

On May 10^th, the seniors represented the Parsons Scholars program in our first participation in the fourth annual Social Justice Expo at NYU, where over 300 NYC high school students present over 35 youth-led projects including topics such as immigration, teen pregnancy, the environment, gun violence, tolerance, discrimination, poverty, housing, and education.

At this event, students showcase their projects for each other and for evaluators who examine each project in areas such as research, collaboration, creativity, organization, enthusiasm in their presentations, and the impact and potential change created by each project. The Scholars were excited to have an opportunity to share the anti-gun violence public service announcements they designed and created with the public, and the enthusiasm of their presentations was reflected in the positive and supportive feedback they received. 

 

 We were pleasantly surprised to run into sophomore Scholars Anthony Suarez and Griselda Vazquez who were presenting a clean-up project, "Queens, Te Quiero Limpio", with the Pan-American International High School. 

Many thanks to the volunteer committee members from Brooklyn International High School, Validus Preparatory Academy, Bushwick School for Social Justice, the Education for Liberation Network, Make the Road New York, Total Equity Now and the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs at New York University who made this event happen.  It was inspiring to participate in an event where hundreds of teens act on an interest in creating positive changes through projects that address a wide range of ideas including access to clean water, immigration rights, child soldiers in Colombia, cleaning up our local neighborhoods, the role of sweatshops in society, and school closures in our area.  

We look forward to participating again next year! 

Parsons Scholars Festival Exhibition: now on view!

The Parsons Scholars Program is proud to announce the opening of our exhibition in the Parsons Festival, now on view through May 19th!

6 East 16th st 

(between 5th ave and Union Square West)

12th Floor

Please join us on Saturday, May 12th, to celebrate the exhibition with Scholars, alumni, staff, Mentors, friends and family, and to support the seniors in presenting their capstone project.

Saturday, May 12th

4-5pm: senior project presentation

5-7pm: celebration!

Refreshments will be served.

We look forward to seeing you all.  

Here's a sneak peek of all of the hard work we're excited to celebrate: