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Volume 13, Number 2, Fall 2002

4-H DOUBLE-KLICK! helps preserve history
By Rob Keith

4-H DOUBLE-KLICK! youth in Chippewa County have been using technology to help preserve history in their communities.

4-H DOUBLE-KLICK! (Developing Our Understanding and Capacity to Boost Literacy Education with KLICK!), based in Chippewa, Lake and Wayne counties, provides technologically enriched learning environments focused on the reading, writing, math, science and technology literacy of at-risk children and youth by building community capacities.

Kids in the program have been working in partnership with the Lighthouse Preservation Society of Michigan in the restoration of the lighthouse marking the shallows on the shipping lanes just off of Drummond Island in the Upper Peninsula.

As a part of the restoration process, the youth assisted in various components of the project from the original blueprints to designs for the lift crane. To do this they had to learn to use a three-dimensional CAD (computer-assisted drawing) program. Currently, they are working on designs recreating some of the original furniture. As the project progresses, some of these designs will be taken to final production, machined, then used in the restored lighthouse.
To develop a better understanding of and feel for the project, they spent a day touring and learning about the history of the lighthouse.

While touring they captured their experiences with digital cameras and camcorders and developed a video of their experiences. They are discussing with the Lighthouse Preservation Society of Michigan creating a more formalized documentary of the lighthouse history and the restoration process as a future club project. In addition they are talking about making the digitized images of the original blueprint drawings available for sale to the public as a fund-raiser and an entrepreneurial learning opportunity.

Rob Keith is the state 4-H associate program leader for technology.

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