From Fort to Screen: Ticonderoga's Virtual Public Programming

FAIN: GA-274910-20

Fort Ticonderoga Museum (Ticonderoga, NY 12883-2711)
Stuart Lilie (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

Development of online education resources for grades 3-12 and increased accessibility of more than 5,000 items from its collection.

Fort Ticonderoga requests $285,358 to support the development and expansion of virtual public programming to engage a broad, multi-generational audience. Specifically, funds would be used to: • Transform an empty space in the museum into a virtual classroom studio for filming and delivering presentations, acquire the necessary equipment, and train staff in its use, • Work with affiliate primary, secondary, and post-secondary educators to identify virtual classroom programmatic needs, • Update and publish lesson plans for students and teachers in grade k-12, • Create new digital classroom outreach programs for grades 3-12, • Plan and present webinars aimed at teacher professional development, • Digitize, catalog, and post 5,000 collections records to the Online Collections Database for public and lesson plan use, and highlight pieces in the collection through new videos, • Share lessons-learned through a webinar for museum peers.