21 stories/ideas for video scripts from the ARCHELON #turtlechallenge3!
The coronavirus provided us with the occasion! You may remember that as soon as we went in lockdown in December 2020 and the Sea Turtle Rescue Center was left without any visitors, ARCHELON invited young and old to send us stories with adventures at the Rescue Center. The title of # turtle challenge3 was "Create a story that can be turned into a video script".

We received 21 stories! Four stories came to us from Shakespeare High School in the UK and we warmly thank the children's teacher and ARCHELON volunteer Lauren Mayes. Three stories arrived independently from our friends, Lysandros, Melina, and Christina, and fourteen stories were submitted by students of the 3rd High School of Argyroupolis, in collaboration with the philologist Mrs. Panagiota Souridis.
A small group of ARCHELON members and volunteers undertook to evaluate them and pick up the one that was more entertaining and at the same time suitable for a video script. Unfortunately, we could not choose one because we liked them all. So we have prepared an electronic issue entitled "Adventure at the Rescue Center", in which you can read a synopsis of the central idea and action of each story, along with the comments from ARCHELON. We hope you enjoy the stories as much as we did!
Stay with us - the next # turtle challenge 4 will be announced soon!
See the announcement of #turtle challenge 3 back in December 2020
Download the issue "Adventure at the Rescue Center" (pdf) here.
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