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Our 8th graders create playground equipment based on interviews with the junior school. This has improved the playground, and gets the older girls really excited about giving back to the school.

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Our school works with the March of Dimes to create accessibility devices for different clients. Our students love this project: they feel an enormous sense of ownership.

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6th grade students from our independent school go to a nearby public kindergarten and talk to the children there.  Then they write illustrated storybooks.  They will return to the kindergarten and read their books to the children.

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students can repair old bicycles and give to needy students at a different school

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As the holidays approach and we are seeing 2018 in our rear-view mirror; it becomes a time for reflection and appreciation for all that has been accomplished. We started with a backlog of over 2,000 photos from the Baton Rouge and the Houston copy run. We are now close to completing by the beginning of 2019. As we look ahead to 2019 and our next copy runs, we hope to be able to partner with... [Read more]

Beverly DeJarnett sorts through her damaged photos as volunteer Kathy Washburn looks on. Matthew Nothelfer, videographer for Path 88 Productions, covering the copy run as part of a documentary on scrapbooking and the connection photos hold. Photo: Margie Hayes Back in September I received an email from David Bush, Executive Director of Preservation Houston, wanting to know if we coordinate with local... [Read more]

It seems like yesterday, but our last copy run was held in April of this year at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library in Baton Rouge, LA. Thanks to Melissa Easton, Archivist/Librarian, the run was a huge success. We had such a large turnout bring in over 2,000 photos. With only four regular OPR volunteers we were shorthanded. If it hadn't been for Melissa and her staff helping, we could not have... [Read more]

Front page credit go to Kathy Anderson (copyrighted 2016) of a volunteer cleaning flood damaged photos. Top photo from NOLA 2016. Send to Facebook Read More →

The OPR team returned from a 4-day copy run in Charleston and Richwood, WV. All total we came back with a little over 100 photos. We were well received and got great publicity before and during our event. We would like to thank Elizabeth Frazier, Head of Reference Services, of the Kanawha County Library in Charleston. The meeting room and the help we received for setting up was great. Thanks also goes... [Read more]

Below are the two schedules for copy runs at Charleston and Richwood, WV. If you would like a PDF file of either flier, please send an email to: info@operationphotoresue.org Photo Courtesy of Richwood by Chris Drennen Thumbnail by Jan Neil Fliers designed by Victoria Walters Margie Hayes OPR President Send to Facebook Read More →

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As the holidays approach and we are seeing 2018 in our rear-view mirror; it becomes a time for reflection and appreciation for all that has been accomplished. We started with a backlog of over 2,000 photos from the Baton Rouge and the Houston copy run.

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Nobelesse oblige final project in jewelry and ceramics....community is the other students in class...

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House numbers for Dominican Republic

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Saint Baldricks portraits.

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I have been told of a service that asks photo students to restore ruined (from floods or smoke damage) photographs through Photoshop. SJA photo students are introduced to the skills needed and this may motivate them to build the skill even further.

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Community engagement or information about lead issues in Cleveland water

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Empty bowls project where students make bowls and host an event where the money raised goes to the local food bank.

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For example, on Friday the Intro to Engineering Class is going to St Marks to their Kindergarten Classes.  The to goal is for the students to use their CAD tools to make Learning Aids for the teachers in our Makerspace.