Muhlenberg College Hosts Docworks Program For Local Youth
The department of media and communication at Muhlenberg College is partnering with the Turner Street Boys and Girls Club of Allentown and the Allentown School District for DocWorks, a program where Allentown youth create short documentary films about careers in the Lehigh Valley.Friday, June 15, 2007 01:59 PM
A screening of their works will be held on Wednesday, June 20, from 12:30 p.m. – 1 p.m. in the College’s Walson Hall.
This summer’s participants are 11 young girls ranging in age from 9 to 15 years old. Through the program, they have had the opportunity to meet and interview local professionals about their careers and the educational pathways that led them there and to use iMovie software to create films about what they have learned to share with other local youth.
Their documentaries focus on a photographer, a public relations specialist, a radio disc jockey, and a communication specialist. Other documentaries created during previous DocWorks sessions this year focus on a range of job positions in the health care and information industries, including a videographer, a web designer, a television cameraperson, a graphic designer, a customer service for TMobile, a midwife, a nurse and nursing student, a phlebotomist, two Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network physicians, a nurse assistant, an Olympus attorney and a B Braun vice president.
