The Creative Media Lab sponsored by the State of Hawaii Learning Center, provides resources and supports programs that would not normally be part of a standard curriculum. Some of the programs the Learning Center has sponsored include, Podcasting, Culinary exploration field trips, creative digital media, mainland excursions for students to learn about Business & Marketing, construction projects, agricultural endeavors, and esports.
Learning Center helps students attend competitions and conventions providing them with hands on video/photography and professional lessons. Above is a photo of Roosevelt's 10 students who attended this year's State Competition, Shoots Summit. Roosevelt won 2nd for Product Photo and 3rd in Photo Essay.
A group of 6 students and 2 teachers travelled to Long Beach, California to attend the Student Television Network Convention/Competition. Students competed in the music video competition and attended sessions from professionals learning about the industry. After competing students were exhausted but also hungry for more information and strategies on how to become better creative media creators.
This year we held our first Roosevelt High School Film Fest which allowed students from Roosevelt High, Stevenson Middle, and Kawananakoa Middle to compete in short film and documentary film making.
Partnered with HIFF's (Hawaii International Film Festival) Education program, film students meet Directors and learn about the business. The top photo is students in 2022-2023 school year meeting actor, director, and producer Nardeep Khurmi and bottom photo is student in 2023-2024 SY meeting director, actress, producer Jana Park Moore.
Roosevelt's, "Rough Rider Gaming," esports club is one of the winningest organizations on campus. Home to about 40 players, around 28 game titles, and 4 championship titles, the esports team needs some serious hardware to stay ahead of the competition. The Learning Center allows our athletes to practice and perform on computers sporting NVIDIA 3000 series graphics cards, 1TB SSDs, and 16gb of RAM. In a competitive scene where a one millisecond delay could be the difference between victory and defeat, only the best equipment will suffice.
The Learning Center helped and supported the Roosevelt Theater Program, Regal Rendition in the school year 2022 to 2023. They provided funding for most of the period costume pieces and some supplies for the building of our set pieces. They also provided a team to record production for prosperity.
The Learning Center supported larger construction projects by purchasing tools and materials. Students were then guided to create scaled up versions of smaller models they have designed.
