Over three consecutive summers between 2001 and 2003, MITH worked with the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland to organize Digital Directions, three separate one-week, intensive seminar for high school students to explore the use of technology in the arts and humanities. Digital Directions aimed to provide enrichment for high school students by exploring the interdisciplinary nature of technology and its cutting edge application in the fields of arts and humanities.
Students participated in hands-on workshops where they learned a variety of computer skills from scanning documents, to HTML to Web design. In order to help students explore all future career options in arts and humanities, the University’s Career Center also prepared a panel presentation of technology careers in those fields.