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JOPLIN, MO. - Seventeen students at Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School learned how to create and develop video through storytelling, film making, editing and producing.
Two artists and a program director at the Kennedy Center Education Department taught at the event.
The goal is to help students understand and participate in the performing arts.
TJ was selected in December as one of ten participants in the Kennedy Center's Innovative Arts Education Program.
"It is really important for them to see that their education can go beyond what they can learn from a classroom and a book, that there is stuff they can do with cameras and the Internet and make learning more fun," says John Peruggia, a teacher at the school.
"I didn't know anything about cameras before I got here, so I just learned a lot," says student Joe Scott.
The Kennedy Center Education Department has been around for 35 years.
It provides arts experiences through performances, residencies, workshops, conferences and career development programs.
