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Story Scouts Pandemic Publishing with Children
1. Story Scouts
Pandemic Publishing with Children
Rural Minnesota Children Leverage Broadband To Publish Local
Histories of the Coronavirus Pandemic 2020-2021
By Anne Brataas for Blandin Foundation Showcase
6 October 2020
2. • RuralMinnesota childrenages 5-15
• Entrepreneurial writing, illustration, publishing
• Developing communicationskillsin broadband-
based technologies
• Connecting& vivifying rural communitiesby co-creating
local history books on the pandemic with children
• Relieving isolation, loneliness, purposegaps,mental
healthandtraumaissues, doubtsabouttheirfutures
• Creatingcareer-relevant portfoliosand preparing
youth to be college-ready and prepared to graduate
college free of debt
www.minnchildpress.org
a Grand Marais, MN 501 (c)(3) charity since2019
Our Mission to Mentor
6. Our Method
Children sell their books, newspapers, web sites, podcasts,videos,
social media & “merch” to fundcivic goods they identify.
www.minnchildpress.org
18. Our Dream
• Children throughout rural
Minnesota write, illustrate local
histories of the 2020-21
coronavirus pandemic
• Minnesota Children’s Press
integrates all accounts into a
digital book for broadband
distribution, Our Minnesota: A
Rural Children’s History of the
Great Pandemic of 2020-21
• Rural children leveragebroadband
to make – and publish -- history!
www.minnchildpress.org
Anne Brataas, Executive Director
anne@minnchildpress.org 218-387-5666