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One of the ways that girls and young women in PAGE learn and connect in exciting new ways is in our PageLabs.
Our place-based learning opportunities have expanded in our second decade, so that each girl experiences a learning menu that grows and changes with each year of her PAGE journey. This allows each participant to expand her repertoire of new learning tools and literacies and deepen her engagement with PAGE across multiple years.
NEW for 2021-2022 is a Photo Diary project for entering 6th grade participants. Our youngest students explore photography (using Instax cameras) and journaling to help them tell complex stories about the times and places in which they live, and their personal worlds and dreams.
Digital storytelling has been a core part of PAGE since 2010. With the patient listening and skillful guidance of Project Facilitators from StoryCenter and our Interns, participants in their second year of PAGE (typically 7th grade) learn advanced literacy and media skills that help them connect in empowering new ways and build confidence.
Projects such as these are building blocks for a signature PAGE experience.
Our PageLabs are place-based, interdisciplinary projects that integrate STEM and the arts and humanities.
'PageLabs take place in traditional and pop-up, site-specific classrooms, such as our Heritage Garden and Public History and the Arts Labs from 2021. Girls in grades 8-10 explore a theme, story, or question in teams, with expert guidance from Staff, Interns, and Project Facilitators: real scientists, historians, documentary photographers, writers, and artists.
We invite you to experience some of the exciting projects created by girls in PAGE. These are at the heart of PAGE’s mission to provide the most innovative, high-quality education possible for girls in Appalachia.
Digital Stories
Girls entering PAGE in grades 6-7 created multi-media digital stories that helped them learn technology skills and gain a new sense of empowerment.
Watch the girls’ digital stories »
Oral Histories
7th grade girls in their second year in PAGE interviewed local women in their communities and created an Oral History project on Appalachian Foodways.
Listen to the girls' oral history projects »
PageLabs
In PageLabs, girls in grades 8-10 engage in collaboration, teamwork, and storytelling. Girls learn by working with our Project Facilitators –real scientists, artists, photographers, and historians –and each year’s team of College Interns.
See how we're engaging girls in STEM and Humanities projects »
