MOSAIC EVENT

Our annual event inspires students by creating a space to experience storytelling through creative ideas and technology. Each year an eclectic group of speakers from the worlds of digital media, entertainment, and tech share inspiration and insights with students about their journey and the lessons they have learned along the way. Past guests have worked for Electronic Arts, NPR, HBO, Marvel Entertainment, Facebook, Netflix, and Spotify.

With a series of interactive workshops, we invite local professionals to connect students to the exciting work in digital media and technology happening in their own community. The Mosaic Event helps students understand how classroom learning can be applied to future careers they may never have considered.

The Mosaic Event also showcases Mosaic Mobile, an annual short film competition, where students create entirely on a mobile device, telling stories from their unique perspectives. The competition awards the largest cash prize offered to student filmmakers in Michigan.

2023 Mosaic Mobile

Mosaic Mobile is our annual filmmaking contest in which high school students shoot and edit a short film entirely on their mobile devices. Films tell a story in only 2-3 minutes. Each year, Mosaic Mobile requires films to feature a theme, prop, and saying. The criteria are intentionally left open-ended to encourage student’s interpretation and creativity.

By leveraging phones and tablets, Mosaic Mobile is leveling the content creation playing field and challenging the conventions of storytelling. Throughout the creative process, students are developing critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration skills, which are skills that are critical in any career they pursue.

View last year's winning films

Theme: Transformation

Prop: Bag(s)

Saying: "Tell me more"

Mosaic Mobile Flyer

Submit Films

Submissions: October 1 - 13

Judging: October 18-22

Internal Judging: October 23

Rick Wilson Voting: October 25 - 28

2023 MOSAIC EVENT

Join us on Thursday, November 2, 2023, for our 12th annual Mosaic Event at Celebration North

GUEST FOR 2023

Phillip Boutte
9B Collective

Liz Polk
Netflix, Johnson Shapiro Slewett  &  Kole LLP

Cass Taylor
Sixteen Twenty (formerly with Adobe)

Carlos Rosas
MUV

Lohanne Cook,
Manager, Public Engagement, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

And many more to come!

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FOR TEACHERS

The immersive Mosaic Event provides an opportunity for students to see the work of talented local and national professionals. By hearing from guests on how storytelling influenced their lives and shaped their careers, Mosaic wants to work with you to help students who are inspired to seek avenues of storytelling in digital media and tech that may be right for them.