Digital Storytelling Project, (The)

The McDonough Center for Leadership and Business at Marietta College and the Marietta Family YMCA have formed a partnership to create a unique opportunity for Marietta's youth: learning the technology of filmmaking and using it to tell the stories that define and shape their hometown. "Digital Storytelling" is a program where high-risk youth learn marketable skills in filmmaking. This program nationally has had a significant impact on the youths' pursuit of higher education and technology-related careers. Students from two leadership service-learning courses (Seminar in Leadership Behavior and Capstone Seminar in Leadership Studies) at the College will work with youth from the YMCA to help them define the scope of their projects, to assist with the operation of the equipment, and to accompany them as they interview people and create films throughout the City.