It’s an island of about 2000 people – a 30-minute seaplane ride north of Male’, the Maldivian capital – and it takes about five minutes to walk from one end to another.

In the Baa Atoll Education Center, we were greeted by a group of 15 young students who were incredibly eager to get hands-on multimedia training.

In an intensive week-long workshop, these bright minds whipped up their first videos and Vuvoxes that we found oh-so impressive! From day one, we worked on an outline of stories for a new school blog, talked about what makes a good story and then swiftly moved on to simple steps to make an amazing video. Ideally, we wanted to cover way more ground that we did – but we had a limited amount of time. The results were impressive nonetheless.

At night, we worked with teachers and administrative personnel from the school – imparting our excitement for the upcoming blog and discussing a number of tips for how it could be managed and structured. Unfortunately, we ran into some Wordpress database issues which slowed our progress somewhat, but we will post the link here once everything is up and running.

All in all, a friendly reception and extremely bright students. We wished we could have stayed longer!!

These are possibly the future bright journalists of the Maldives!

Football Championship Practice from BAEC on Vimeo.

Netball Championship Practice from BAEC on Vimeo.

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