Video Editing for TechKnow Camps

My good friend was at the camp.

This summer, I was found out by Discover Technology who has flown me out to North Carolina to teach at one of their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) camps. The camp is exciting, education rich, well run, and extremely affordable. I am scheduled to teach MIT App Inventor next week. The camp has students flying self assembled drones, talking to robots and tinkering with LEGOs.

Last night I walked through the sweltering North Carolinian midnight. It was another scorcher of a day -- well over 100 degrees -- and the fresh rain was thrown off the pavement. The vapor reached back for its missing lover with soft fog hands only to be inhaled by the baleful streetlights.

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Early morning Huntersville, NC.

I needed to clear my mind, so I found myself walking a different city’s streets. I had just spent copious hours editing video footage of the camp with many more facing me yet. It was a task that I volunteered for -- a task would cost me a lot of midnight oil for no additional pay. Such situations are not foreign to teachers. I was happy to do it. Being around passionate and imaginative people who have clear educational goals is inspiring and I’d like to match their vigor.

The videos turned out pretty well. It was the first semi professional video editing I’ve done. The pressure of the authentic need for my work to be decent combined with the morning deadline was not lost on me. All educational lessons should be so authentic. Such conditions produce the best work from everyone, not just students.


One of the camp directors passed on the videos to PBS, who came in today to shoot footage for a show of theirs. I should have watermarked my work.

One of the Video of the camps I edited together.