Students interested in music, technology and multimedia production climbed aboard the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus Thursday outside the Wexner Center.
The bus stopped on campus Wednesday and Thursday as part of its 10-month tour across the country.
Zach Tuggle/THE LANTERN"The idea is to get people on the bus in hopes of showing them technology to explore new and innovative ways to express their imagination," Harte said.
The Lennon Bus began touring in 1998 as a promotional bus for the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. As sponsorship grew, technology and multimedia were added to the bus, said Doug Larsen, an on-board producer. "The bus is a full-production, professional-quality studio on wheels," Larsen said.
Wednesday, young girls and women from the Gidget program, which encourages female-only interactions with technology, toured the Lennon Bus. They also wrote an original song and produced a music video about "being a woman," said Catherine Girves, director of the University Area Enrichment Association.
The Lennon Bus staff and Gidget women began their production at 9 a.m. and finished at about 5 p.m. Girves said the experience helped empower the women and build their confidence in working with technology.
The bus was open to the public for tours from 1 to 3 p.m. Thursday. The Ohio State tour was concluded at 4:30 p.m. with the premiere of the Gidget program's music video.
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus was brought to campus through a request made by the OSU Digital Union.
The goal was to help inform students and faculty about music, arts and the media that are available to produce multimedia projects, said Hanna Gebremedhin, a senior in international studies who works at the Digital Union and said the Union has similar capabilities..
The Digital Union offers many of the same production capabilities as the Lennon Bus. Students who are interested in recording or producing their original projects should contact the Digital Union to take advantage of the free resources, Gebremedhin said.
The Lennon Bus will continue touring through August. More information about the bus or the multimedia projects produced throughout the tour can be found at lennonbus.org.
Katherine Witzman can be reached at witzman.2@osu.edu.
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