On January 14, 2010 the Media Center with select members of the Cobra Readers club participated in a nationwide videoconference with Holocaust survivor and author Gerda Weissman Klein. This was the inaugral videoconference for South Miami Senior High. The conference, titled Stand Up, Speak Out, was organized by MAGPI and the Klein Foundation as a venue for increasing community service involvement by students. As part of the participation, our group undertook a service project to build a library for a Camillus House in Brownsville. A wiki at PB Works was created for the event by the organizers and can be accessed by clicking here.
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For our particpation in the videoconference, one of our students, Jose Dossantos, had his question for Mrs. Klein selected.
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Reactions to the videoconference from some of the participants.
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On March 18, 2010, eight students arrived at the Brownsville Camillus House to build six book shelves and stocked them with collected donations of both fiction and nonfiction books.
