The Lights! Camera! Learning! project is about taking a fresh look at your afterschool program and how you can best document and record those activities, opportunities, and programs that engage your children/ youth in learning in new and exciting ways.

Afterschool programs can play an important role in exposing students to meaningful learning opportunities in innovative, hands-on, and exciting ways. In doing so, effective afterschool programs play an essential role in “making learning stick.”

In the Lights! Camera! Learning! project, afterschool programs throughout Vermont are asked to create short video vignettes of their students in action and demonstrating an example of “innovative learning” as it happens in their program. In 2010, Senator Patrick Leahy created the video introduction to the project setting the stage for this creative and engaging Vermont initiative.  Senator Bernie Sanders spoke about the importance of afterschool programs at the Vermont Afterschool Conference in October 2010. In February 2011, Governor Peter Shumlin spoke at the statewide luncheon featuring the winners of the 2011 Winter Lights! Camera! Learning! competition.  View all the spotlights featuring comments by Governor Shumlin, Senator Sanders’, and Senator Leahy’s here.

To view winning videos from the past three rounds of Lights! Camera! Learning! see below:

Winter 2011 Lights! award winners
Highlighted at the Vermont Legislative Day on February 23, 2011

Summer 2010 Lights! award winners
Highlighted at the Vermont Afterschool Conference, October 22, 2010

Winter 2010 Lights! award winners
Highlighted at the Vermont Afterschool Legislative Day, March 25, 2010

For information about the current Lights! Camera! Learning! competition, click here.