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Watch the video at: www.america.gov/multimedia/video.html?videoId=2646924001
Students at College of the Atlantic are the subject of a new video released by the United States State Department on its America.Gov website.
The video, found at www.america.gov/multimedia/video.html?videoId=2646924001, is posted on the America.gov website as a means of providing "a close-up look at the people, places and events behind the news," in the hopes of "engaging international audiences on issues of American life, society, culture and values," according to State Department producer Benjamin Harper who created the COA video. This episode, called "Young Environmentalists," along with the other videos on the site, is produced by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of International Information Programs.
In mid-October, Harper spent three days at College of the Atlantic. He interviewed students, attended classes and a field trip, and followed one student into Acadia National Park to observe his extensive fieldwork into the life of vernal pools.
Harper features three COA students in the video: junior Lauren Nutter of Uxbridge, MA, whose focus on climate change has brought her to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Poznan, Poland; Brett Ciccotelli, a senior from Blackwood, NJ, who has taken a conservation biologist's approach to understanding the science behind environmental questions; and Neil Oculi, a sophomore from St. Lucia, focused on international politics.
The two-minute video captures the beauty of the campus and the intensity of its students. And yet, says Harper, "COA is so much more complex and has much more involved than just the environmental aspect of its education. ... I hope that the dedication students and faculty have for understanding and making their surroundings better comes across just as well as the beautiful scenery and landscapes do."
Surely, Nutter's statement at the conclusion of the video answers his concerns: "I think youth should speak up ... it is our future, we're the ones who are going to inherit this planet. ... I see no reason to wait."
College of the Atlantic was founded in 1969 on the premise that education should go beyond understanding the world as it is, to enabling students to actively shape its future. It has pioneered a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to undergraduate education-human ecology-that is especially well suited to developing the types of leaders needed by all sectors of society in addressing the compelling and growing needs of our world.
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