7/4/2008
The Molokai Times
$25,000 allows youth to watch, make films
Kids on Molokai will be able to watch movies — and even make their own — after the closure of Molokai Ranch shuts down the only theater on the island.
Thanks to a $25,000 grant from Dowling Community Improvement Foundation, Maui Media Lab Foundation (MMLF) will be able to complete the transformation of an old school bus to a “science-mobile,” packed with equipment like satellite television, wireless Internet, and a full high definition-quality audio visual studio for recording and engineering.
The bus, donated to MMLF by Maui Economic Opportunity, was refurbished by high school students on Maui. Hāna, Baldwin, and Kekaulike High School students contributed basic clean-up, welding, power installation and other work to improve the bus and ready it for its new birth as a powerful teaching tool. The bus was shipped to Molokai at the end of May, where it was repainted by Molokai High School students and found a new home at the Hawaiian Learning Center.
The bus will travel to various schools and events on Molokai where students will learn to film their own sports events, encode the video with software and put it up on their own digital television channel.
Sam Epstein, executive director of the MMLF, said, ...
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