Students create a polished 3-minute overview video that tells a clear, engaging story about how the school’s STEAM clusters connect through real classroom work, student voice, and teacher insight. The project asks them to answer how film can reveal the impact, purpose, and opportunities within agriculture, media arts, computer science, health science, and building trades using interviews, b-roll, and strong story structure. Through planning, filming, critique, revision, and public exhibition, students strengthen communication, collaboration, technical media arts skills, and responsible self-direction while meeting advanced production standards. The final work serves a real audience at a campus screening and community showcase, with looping station-based playback that highlights each cluster and invites feedback from teachers, peers, district staff, and community partners.

Students will plan, film, and edit a cohesive 3-minute overview video and looping exhibition cut that synthesizes interviews, b-roll, title cards, and academic content from all five STEAM clusters while maintaining clear theme, style, and story structure. They will strengthen speaking, listening, and media literacy skills by writing interview questions, capturing usable sound and footage, and making editing choices that improve pacing, audio clarity, accuracy, and audience impact through weekly rough-cut critique and revision. Students will collaborate with STEAM teachers, peers, district IT staff, and computer science partners to represent each cluster accurately, explain real-world problem solving clearly on screen, and respond to feedback from mid-project critiques and a public screening. They will build self-direction and reflection habits by reviewing weekly edits and completing short post-shoot reflections that identify a technical success, a communication challenge, and a next step for both the video and their group process.

Students will create planning products throughout the project, including interview question sets, shot lists, production schedules, cluster research notes, and annotated storyboards for each STEAM pathway. As they film, teams will produce interview footage, b-roll libraries, class observation clips, and brief field reflections after each shoot that capture technical success, communication challenges, and team support. During editing, they will build weekly rough cuts, feedback notes from peers, teachers, STEAM students, and community partners, and revised cuts that improve pacing, audio quality, accuracy, and story focus. By the end, they will deliver a polished 3-minute overview video plus a looping exhibition version with title cards, quotes, and cluster-specific b-roll for the campus screening and community showcase.

Open with a Behind the Scenes Preview Jam where teams rotate through short sample clips, camera setups, audio gear, and quick edit stations representing agriculture, media arts, computer science, health science, and building trades. Have students analyze each station by naming one strong moment, one confusing moment, and one next step, then use those notes to discuss the essential question of how to show the impact and connections of the STEAM program through a 3-minute film. Invite a few STEAM teachers, grade 11–12 students, and a local tech or district IT partner to share brief on-camera-style pitches about what viewers should understand about their cluster. End with teams drafting initial interview ideas, footage priorities, and story possibilities for the looping exhibition video they will revise through weekly rough-cut checks and reflection routines.

Host a Cluster Connection Film Fest on campus where the 3-minute overview video loops at themed stations for agriculture, media arts, computer science, health science, and building trades, with title cards, quotes, and b-roll matched to each cluster. Invite STEAM teachers, grades 11–12 students featured in the film, families, district leaders, school district IT staff, local technology firms, and university computer science partners to watch, respond, and discuss how clearly the film shows real-world learning and career pathways. Add a short student-led Q&A or presentation during a Voices of STEAM Showcase so teams can explain editing choices, share evidence from interviews and footage, and reflect on how feedback shaped the final cut. End with live audience feedback and a brief self-assessment conference where students name one strong moment, one confusing moment they resolved, and one next goal for future film work.