Catalyst Students & the Community

Collaboration with the community is one of the cornerstones of the Catalyst approach to education. Students engage in community activities throughout the Denver metro area and along the front range. These community experiences enhance their overall educational integrity and personal well-bring. Unique to Catalyst are our partnerships with real world organizations. 

O n   C a m p u s   T V   S t u d i o

Citizens’ Community Television (CCTV54) production studio operates from the Catalyst campus.  This allows our students a wonderful opportunity to train and produce their own shows for broadcast on television and the web.

Students learn collaboration, innovation and problem-solving while they train in many areas of production, including:

• Camera operation
• Sound
• Lighting
• Directing
• Computer graphics
• Pre- and post-production
• Marketing
• Performance and acting
• Costuming
• Make-up
• Set design
• Script writing
• Public speaking

Catalyst students have helped produce broadcast shows for a number of projects including:

• Poets Co-op (videopoetry.org)
• East County Live (live, local, in-depth news and interviews)
• Television advertisements for Catalyst High School
• Climate Ninja (www.climateninja.org)

Catalyst student, Barry Goldberg, recently won a grant from the City of Lafayette’s Energy Sustainability Advisory Committee to produce educational TV shows for all ages about climate and energy sustainability.  The shows are being produced at Catalyst High School.

Join us for a student-made commercial for Catalyst High School at http://www.youtube.com/catalysthighschool#p/a/u/2/UzSA44MlRLQ

CCTV54 serves Louisville, Lafayette, Erie and Superior, Colorado. Their website is www.cctv54.org . Through this partnership with Catalyst High School, CCTV54 connects directly with young people and provides our students the rich opportunity to become actively involved in producing broadcast television shows.  Thank you CCTV54!

C a t a l y s t   a n d   B i c y c l e s   f o r   H u m a n i t y

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT TO SEND BICYCLES TO SOUTH AFRICA

Bicycles for Humanity is a non-profit humanitarian organization that collects unwanted bicycles from the developed world for use in African communities. In addition, they open small, locally-owned and operated bicycle shops around Africa, creating sustainable businesses that support local people.

Catalyst High School is partnering with Bicycles for Humanity to gather, repair and ship 400 bicycles to South Africa. We are also raising funds to send several students to Africa to help deliver the bikes and set up a new bike shop.

Bicycles for Humanity, is located at www.bicycles-for-humanity.org .

You can make a contribution to this effort or view our progress by going to http://chsbikes.org/

C a t a l y s t   &   C D O T ’ s   A d o p t – a – H i g h w a y   P r o g r a m

Catalyst High School has adopted a two-mile section of highway along US 36 between Louisville and Boulder, Colorado.  Our section runs on both sides of the highway between Mile Markers 42 and 44.  The section starts just east of the westbound off ramp for Louisville and goes west to almost the top of Davidson Mesa.

The Catalyst community goes out several times a year to clean up our section of the highway. See the map here:  View Map