Community Outreach

DC Practicum Screening – Summer 2009

September 11, 2009 September 11, 2009 Last Thursday, our DC campus hosted our 4th Practicum Screening.  Practicum Screening is an opportunity for our students, across concentrations, to showcase the work they have created for their non-profit client over the course of four weeks.  Our students, their families, their non-profit clients, and past and present Practicum clients are all in attendance for this special evening. This summer we embarked on our fourth Practicum program for the DC campus, created digital solutions, and developed pieces of “media that matters”—the thesis that guides our Practicum program.  From a historically accurate video game set in Prohibition-era Virginia; to a national photography advertising campaign that highlights non-profit professionals; to a film about a 9-year old girl’s work to help children with chronic illnesses at Ronald McDonald Houses.  Each medium of digital media allows you, as the viewer, to experience and understand the mission of the group, in a way that mere words are not able to capture. A big thank you to our students, clients and many supporters who came out to the screening on Thursday! Our clients this term included: Cakes for Cause The Crooked Road Project Idealist.org Kathryn's Gift Mt. Airy Volunteer Fire Department Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic Orchestra