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“[W]e've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.”

- John Quincy Adams

No Digital Safari experience is complete without the HOOF project, the culminating first semester sophomore project. 

As part of your induction into the Digital Safari family we would like to invite you to share your family history, stories, myths and legends. Your stories are complex and various and together those stories make up a tapestry of triumph, tragedy, joy and sorrow. It is these stories that form our collective identity as an educational family.

We live in a world where our memories are digital and our family is dispersed. One of the potential tragedies is the loss of history. Each move across another boundary increases the distance between the family and their past. Each lost, untold story of our journey through life diminishes us. Because our ties to our past and our traditions are part of what makes each of us unique, it is perhaps more important than ever to recapture and hold on to our history.

In this project you will use digital storytelling to share with us an engaging and interesting family story. Your history and who you are is not made up of a timeline of events-- but of pivotal moments that shift your families trajectory, personality and future. Your story might be momentous, in which everything changed, but it could also be a small touching moment.

It is important to honor the fact that our own histories are as vital and integral as any others and deserve to be voiced. While statesmen, presidents and generals fill the pages of your history textbooks, it is us, our families and communities that form the true fabric of the world. Tell the story well and honor your family and past.

After our stories are created we will celebrate by sharing them with our friends and families in the MDHS Library in early January.