ChildArt Magazine is a magazine founded and owned by Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq. This magazine has been publishing new issues since 1998. It is more for young teens, 10-14, but others enjoy it as well. It’s an incredible international magazine and they go in depth on some great topics such as, Transformative Experiences, Preserving Creativity and many more. The magazine goes over some topics that you would think most teens wouldn’t be interested in, but ChildArt magazine really grabs you and makes you want to learn and think about the world around you. The issues consist of articles about projects going on around the world, Q and A’s, many images of authors and their projects, and activities that students can interact with and learn by doing things and not just reading. The magazine at the least gets 100,000 reads an issue. The magazine recently started publishing online issues, which has help make it even more popular.
The October-December issue is all about VR/AR and Deep Learning and it has partnered up for the first time with school, Mount Vernon Presbyterian School. Dr. Ashfaq Ishaq was looking for someone to be the guest editor of the magazine and he found a grade 9 teacher and Mount Vernon VR/AR Director, Mrs. Marie Graham. He wanted her to guest edit the magazine, but she didn’t stop there. Instead of just her guest editing it, she had the amazing idea of having her class of of 11 students also be in the guest editorial team of the magazine. Dr. Ishaq was a little hesitant at first, but then followed along and ended up loving the idea. When she told her class about this amazing idea, we were all extremely excited to get started and publish this magazine for kids are age to see all around the world.
I was blessed to be in Mrs. Graham’s class and to be given this once in a lifetime opportunity. At the beginning of the project we had to learn a very important lesson before getting into the madness of writing and editing an international magazine. We read examples of great emails written by Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and we read and studied their tone, their vocabulary and we all learned how to create great emails. Mrs. Graham decided that the class should have a friendly competition on who can make the best email and be the first to send it to Dr. Ishaq himself. Once we all turned them in, she read them all carefully and picked mine to be the first email sent to Dr. Ishaq and from then on, I was named the chief of emailing for the magazine. Being apart of the editing team for ChildArt Magazine has been amazing and I cannot wait for it to be published.
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