Thursday, Dec 17 2020 - 9:00AM to 3:00PM
Join the fun.
Each program includes a workshop box to accompany a virtual hands-on demonstration, open studio time and time to discuss the results of their projects. Students can participate via Laptop, Desktop, Smartphone or Tablet. Purchase a workshop box in the AJA Store or donate one to someone in our community.
The fun begins here.
9:00AM to 9:15AM - About The AJA Project & STEAM OnDemand
9:15AM to 11:00AM - Cyanotype Workshop - San Ysidro High School
11:00AM to 11:30AM - Presentation - City Heights Prep Charter
11:30AM to 1PM - Cyanotype Workshop - Andrea Chung & Kingston Chung Neff
1:00PM to 1:30PM - LUNCH BREAK
1:30 to 2:30PM - Lenticular Photo Workshop - Nina & Marla from San Ysidro HS
2:30 to 3:00PM - San Ysidro High School Presentation / Closing Remarks
STUDENT WORK
Look through the work created by students at SYHS and City Heights Prep during their 5 STEAM workshops!
SAN YSIDRO HIGH SCHOOL
Teaching Artists: Alejandro Arreguin Villegas, Andres Hernandez and Luisa Martinez
CITY HEIGHTS PREP CHARTER
Teaching Artist: Anna Lynch and Janel De La Torre
DIY: DO-IT-YOUTH-LED
Lenticular Workshop - 12/17 1:30PM to 2:00PM
Instructors: Nina & Marla from San Ysidro High School
A lenticular photo is a series of images, when divided and arranged side-by-side, provides the illusion of depth or movement when the image is view from different angles. Join us for this youth-led workshop. Purchase and donate a box at the AjA Store.
Help us match 100 boxes donations.
Johnson Elementary
SAN DIEGO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Henry C. Johnson Elementary is a unique magnet school for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and a NASA Explorer School. We provide a stimulating and rigorous curriculum to ensure grade level proficiency. Our high expectations foster strong academic excellence. Addressing the needs of the whole child is critical. Our teaching reflects this belief, while strengthening the understanding of STEM.
Johnson Elementary
EL CAJON VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Johnson Elementary School staff supports students in building strong academics and healthy relationships. Our students develop the skills they need to navigate challenges, become lifelong learners, reach their own full potential, and make a positive impact on their local community and the global society.
Monarch School
BARRIO LOGAN
Monarch has served San Diego for over three decades, beginning as a one-room education center and expanding into a K-12 comprehensive school designed to educate homeless youth.
GUESTS: ANDREA CHUNG + KINGSTON CHUNG NEFF
Cyanotype Workshop - 12/17 11:30AM to 1:00PM
A cyanotype is a pre-digital image that you can print using the sun. Learn how to make ordinary materials light sensitive in this this workshop led my Artists Andrea, and her son Kingston, two people who have grown to love this process and integrate it into their life and artwork.
Join us for this community-led workshop. Purchase and donate a box at the AjA Store.
AJA IS COMMUNITY.
The STEAM OnDemand program is proof that our community is resilient. Each box provides access and opportunity, to a one-of-a-kind virtual learning experience, not just with one of our AjA Teaching Artist - but what each unique soul can bring to the table. The AjA Project is working hard to make sure our team has all the tools they need to provide sensitive, thought provoking and hands-on lessons to the San Diego, Tijuana community and beyond.
WATCH US IN ACTION
9:15AM to 11:00AM - Cyanotype Workshop - AJA + San Ysidro High School
11:00AM to 11-30AM - Presentation - City Heights Prep Charter School
Participating Schools
San Ysidro High School
San Ysidro High School will prepare all students to be college and career ready upon graduation .
City Heights Prep Charter
Our mission is to provide an excellent neighborhood based and college preparatory education for middle and high school students in City Heights.
Monarch School
The mission of the Monarch School is to educate students impacted by homelessness and to help them develop hope for a future with the necessary skills and experiences for personal success.
Johnson Elementary (El Cajon)
Johnson Elementary School staff supports students in building strong academics and healthy relationships. Our students develop the skills they need to navigate challenges, become lifelong learners, reach their own full potential, and make a positive impact on their local community and the global society.
Johnson Elementary (San Diego)
A unique magnet school for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and a NASA Explorer School. We provide a stimulating and rigorous curriculum to ensure grade level proficiency. Our high expectations foster strong academic excellence. Addressing the needs of the whole child is critical. Our teaching reflects this belief, while strengthening the understanding of STEM.
Buy a box. Donate a box.
Cyanotype Kit
Print an image using the sun with all the tools in our awesome Cyanotype Kit! All the tools and materials you need to make 5 one-of-a-kind prints using objects, a negative we provide or a drawing. Each kit includes two pre-stamped envelopes for you to send a print to a family or friend.
Lenticular Kit
Make a GIF before digital photography was a thing with this Lenticular Kit that explores illusion. Each kit comes with enough materials to make three lenticular images, that will feature six images created by our AjA participants, and a special collage kit as a bonus gift!
Donate.
We are making our workshops accessible by matching every purchase with a box for someone in our community. Help The AJA Project provide workshop opportunities, to the youth of San Diego and Tijuana with each purchase, or make a larger donation to contribute to the production of AjA OnDemand.
