Give Kids The World (Booth #4233) and Garner Holt Education Through Imagination, a division of Garner Holt Productions, jointly announced that the Give Kids The World Village in Kissimmee, Florida, will be the home of the next Garner Holt Animakerspace in 2022. The Animakerspace is a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math)-focused creative workspace where students use high-tech tools and techniques to generate the creative magic accomplished at Garner Holt Productions.
Concepting, show writing, costume design, engineering, painting, electronics and controls, show programming, and lighting—almost everything that goes into opening a real attraction—are incorporated. The main difference in this particular Animakerspace, and the ones found at many schools in various locations, is that students work in a yearlong program in those workspaces, whereas the curriculum at the Give Kids The World Animakerspace will be formatted for the weeklong visit periods of families at the Village.
Garner Holt also announced that just about an hour earlier, the Animakerspace concept had won a Thea Award. Pamela Landwirth, president and CEO of Give Kids The World, said she’s delighted Garner Holt is donating this Animakerspace.
“It’s going to make a huge difference in the lives of our families,” she said.