For the past decade, Clarissa's students have been crafting children's books about causes they care about most and raising $500,000 for charity by selling their own wares. Now, we're building Emagination Island, a multi-disciplinary learning adventure park that teaches kids to play with purpose so they find a cause to champion and build books, websites, animated videos, podcasts, and theme park rides to learn how to imagine, create, and give. Want to join?

A boy returns from school, discouraged as he just failed his anatomy test. However, a secret message from our Emagineers gives him hope! This animation sequence was originally created for a project that won top 20 in North America from a Steven Spielberg humanitarian contest. Our teen Emagineer, Ian Shang, spent 100 hours animating the full two minute segment with his left hand after accidentally falling on his track spike cleats and stabbing his right one! Our teen Emagineer Avril Jensen has amended and added to Ian's footage to help us tell the story of Emagination Island.