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Churchill HS Signature Program Members Collaborate to Produce TravelTelevision
During the summer of 2007, members of Winston Churchill High School's three
signature programs combined their talents to create "Project: Katrina Volunteers", a
website and television series that highlight the efforts of the several thousand
volunteers who have spent time rebuilding the Gulf Coast since Hurricane Katrina.
The project involved the creation of a television show and two websites:
(www.projectkatrinavolunteers.net and www.traveltelevision.org). Churchill has three
signature programs: Math, Science, and Technology (MTS), Creative and Performing
Arts (CPA) and International Studies (ISA).
In creating the television show, Ardalon Sabet (MTS '09) and researched and
contacted various television stations throughout the United States to get them to air
the show on their station. To promote the show, Jeff Ochfeld (ISA '09) posted videos
on various websites such as YouTube and GoogleVideo to draw attention to the show
and the stories that it would tell.
The TravelTelevision.org website was largely produced by Math, Science, and
Technology Academy members Alex Roca (MTS '09), Ardalon Sabet, Vikrum Sheorey
(MTS '09), and Aditya Kohlekar (MTS '10). The website also features a blog with
pieces pulled from other blogs relating to the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast, as well as
pieces written by members of the project.
The blog, which can be viewed at www.katrinavolunteers.blogspot.com, was created
by Creative and Performing Arts Academy members Alex Jamis (CPA '08) and
Roxana Shamsazar (CPA '08). Much of the text on the website, as well as some of
the public relations for the website and television show in the form of blog entries and
press releases, was written by International Studies Academy member Elyse Toplin
(ISA '08).
The Travel Television show premiered on August 29, 2007 on Montgomery County
channel 21.
For more information, including show times, visit www.traveltelevision.org. The
members of each academy found "Project: Katrina Volunteers" to be a very important,
rewarding project in which they could collaborate all of their skills in order to produce
something great.
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