Stuart County Day School students chat with Caine’s Arcade filmmaker Nirvan Mullick via Skype Oct. 3, 2013.
Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart students talked with documentary film maker Nirvan Mullick via Skype Oct. 3
Mullick made the documentary Caine’s Arcade, which inspired Lower School students to build their own arcade games. The students had the opportunity to ask Mullick about making the film and the reaction to its release; the filmmaker and Caine are traveling the world using the opportunity to make a difference.
Last year, as a part of Stuart’s STEM for Girls Initiative, students engineered games from recycled objects and hosted an arcade for the entire school. Stuart science teacher Elena Nickerson spearheaded the project.
The K-five girls will do it again this year with a school-wide Day of Play scheduled for Oct. 11.
Mullick’s short documentary film, released in April 2012, covered the story of nine-year-old Caine Monroy who made a cardboard arcade in his father’s auto parts shop. The film soon became a viral video, inspiring Stuart and other schools around the world to create similar cardboard arcades.
Mullick and the team behind the film have started the Imagination Foundation, a non-profit group aimed to find and foster creativity and entrepreneurship in children across the world
