How do we get the youth to build awareness towards water sustainability? What does it take for a small change to ripple across the world and restore one of the world’s richest source?
Operation H2O (working name) is an initiative founded by the De Gaspe Baubien Foundation and One Drop Foundation (non-profit organization created by Guy Laliberté, founder of Cirque Du Soleil).
For my summer internship of 2010, I was hired to work with a team of three other classmates to work on an interactive project that will motivate the youth to raise awareness of water sustainability. As digital media specialists, our goal is to motivate the youth to start building action to respect water.
My Role
Technical Director / Flash & Web Developer
The Team
Team AGUA: Jennifer Dowding, Al Sinoy, Milm Kim, Jason Ho
Our inspiration was driven on the impact of social media games, alternative reality games and digital campaigns.
I worked with Jennifer Dowding in the first two month in Vancouver at the Centre for Digital Media. The last two months were then spent in Montreal at the De-Gaspe Baubien Office in Place Ville Marie, where Milim Kim and Jason Ho followed to join the production phase of the project.
As the Technical Director, this project enabled me to expand on my ActionScript 3 programming skills, exercise the collaborative process on building a creative project, and build more experience in enhancing my management and communication techniques.
Being able to work across different ends of Canada is an irreplaceable opportunity. Both foundations were very supportive and appreciative of our work
We are happy to say that everyone involved were very happy with the result. The process has been very educational and the
We left the project feeling very satisfied and fulfilled, especially as we were entrusted with a lot of responsibility.
