CLARKSVILLE, TN – The first class of the Manifest Magic Urban Eco Lens Club graduated Dec. 18 with 13 students.
AT&T Pioneers awarded Manifest Magic: Black Girl Cooperative $4,000 to purchase cell phones, protective covers, and insurance on the phones for marginalized students so they may participate in a new partnership program that aims to teach students how to document and tell their personal conservation and environmental stories to help make important changes in their local communities.
The students met weekly for eight weeks and learned how to locate a local environmental or conservation problem in an urban environment, how to present the problem to the public, how to gain support for the project through non-traditional technology, how to write press releases and use social media, and how to present the project to a government agency.
This new program, in partnership with Amanda Blount Photography, helped increase the students’ awareness of environmental and ecological issues in their areas, how it affects them and their families, and how they can use non-traditional technology to voice their concerns for environmental and conservation issues in their local communities and the city as a whole.
This is the very first program of its kind in our area. Please reach out to Manifest Magic if you wish to enroll your student.