The JFK Cougars took over The Sony Digital Motion Picture Studio, Studio Soundstage7 in Culver City, Wednesday, May 3rd, and the experience will never be forgotten for all involved. The 5-hour feild trip will culminate in a published sizzle reel assignment that may make the cut as a possible segment for a student-generated pilot on the new AT&T/DirecTV’s online channel. […]

Dakar Interactive was front and center at the 3rd annual CTE Symposium.  Our high school students from the JFK Magnet will be briefed on all of the great news coming out of the symposium this upcoming week. Dr. Alex Dean Davis welcomed the distinguished room of trustees, chancellors, deans, instructors, and students from the Los Angeles County Districts of Southern […]

STEAM Workforce Development: The Next Generation The most successful workforce development efforts are teaming with education resources to develop job-specific vocational studies in high schools, community colleges and universities……

Explaining what’s behind these walls is our mission as a consortium to “Change Their World”.  On Wednesday, March 29th the consortium comprised of business professionals in technology, education, and entertainment met with Pentagon and research leaders to discuss how to share their nexus that will better prepare students, teacher and parents for workforce 2020-2025.  Our mission was operation USC ICT […]

Kevin Clark-Dakar SONY STUDIOS-CULVER CITY, CA   There’s only word for the Sony Digital Motion Picture Center, AWESOME Coming soon to a field trip near you. pic.twitter.com/CyFfN8QWjn — Mr Lemos (@JFKFilmmaking) March 24, 2017 An invited group of high school educators and workforce development executives witnessed the convergence of theatrical marketing with state of the art Career Technical Education inside […]

Maya Beasley FEATURED SPEAKER @ SXSW  RELATED STORY Talented Tenth Dr. Maya A. Beasley is the Co-Founder and a principal at the T10 Group, a diversity consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. and California and is a tenured associate professor on leave from the University of Connecticut. Her first book, Opting Out: Why America Is Losing Out On Its Young […]

Repost From Shelly Palmer  The 5 Jobs Robots Will Take First Oxford University researchers have estimated that 47 percent of U.S. jobs could be automated within the next two decades. But which white-collar jobs will robots take first? First, we should define “robots” (for this article only) as technologies, such as machine learning algorithms running on purpose-built computer platforms, that […]

 PRE-APPRENTICESHIP PROJECT (PAP) The Pre-Apprenticeship Project (PAP) provides deserving public high school students the chance to work in dynamic career areas through paid Pre-Apprenticeship experiences. Through PAP, students will work in fields that map to 4th Generation Workforce and the Gig Economy.  Area of interest but not excluded are digital media, entertainment, technology, healthcare, and design. The American Apprenticeship Initiative was a […]

The Problem Statement: Students are more capable of creating gig economy opportunities than their institutions can facilitate. Starting with k-5, institutions administrators, instructors and parents are struggling to keep pace with their children’s ability to interpret, create and deploy uses of technology for life, work and play. The time it would take to train the trainers while keeping pace with […]