Plasma Productions

• 'Insane Scouter' Interview With Blake Cortright insanescouter.org/blog/314/Interview_With_Blake_Cortright_-_The_First_Encampment.html insanescouter.org/blog/314/Interview_With_Blake_Cortright_-_The_First_Encampment.html An interview with Eagle Scout Blake Cortright, who created the documentary film The First Encampment.

• Interview With Blake Cortright scouterblog.com/2010/06/11/interview-with-blake-cortright/ scouterblog.com/2010/06/11/interview-with-blake-cortright/ June 11, 2010 - Blake Cortright is a 16-year-old Eagle Scout from New York. Blake recently produced The First Encampment, a documentary that tells the story of the first organized Boy Scout camp held in the United States in 1910 at Silver Bay YMCA of the Adirondacks.

• Meet Matthew Elton jamicei.tumblr.com/post/683773276/meet-matthew-elton jamicei.tumblr.com/post/683773276/meet-matthew-elton June 10, 2010 - For Matthew Elton, the most important aspect of filmmaking is storytelling....

Media coverage of The First Encampment - the first feature length documentary produced by Plasma Productions. Airing on WCNY PBS August 8 at 3:00 p.m.

• Young Filmmaker Tells a Very Old Tale www.thefirstencampment.com/1stEncampmentEagleScoutMAG.pdf www.thefirstencampment.com/1stEncampmentEagleScoutMAG.pdf Two years ago, Blake Cortright came home from a troop outing with the idea for his first television documentary. He was 14 years old.

• The First Encampment to Air on PBS in August scouterblog.com/2010/06/01/the-first-encampment-to-air-on-pbs-in-august/ scouterblog.com/2010/06/01/the-first-encampment-to-air-on-pbs-in-august/ June 1, 2010 - What were you doing at age 16? I bet it wasn't quite as exciting and educational as what Blake Cortright, a 16-year-old Eagle Scout from New York, has been up to.

• Blake Cortright on The Don Weeks Show plasmaproductions.net/radio.htm plasmaproductions.net/radio.htm May 28, 2010 - Blake Cortright isn't your typically high school sophomore student. Having become an Eagle Scout at the age of 14 and founder of his own production company Plasma Productions, Blake has created a documentary due to air tomorrow (Saturday 5/29) on WMHT at 4pm, called "The First Encampment", documenting the first American Boy Scout encampment at Silver Bay in the Adirondacks.

• Student film on Boy Scouts to air Saturday over WMHT www.plasmaproductions.net/gazette.pdf www.plasmaproductions.net/gazette.pdf May 28, 2010 - Seeing his first video on YouTube was fun, but Saturday at 4 p.m. Blake Cortright is taking things to a whole new level. The Shaker High School sophomore

• Capital District News Channel 13 Coverage on "The First Encampment" www.plasmaproductions.net/apps/videos/videos/show/8830178-capital-district-news-channel-13-coverage-on-the-first-encampment- www.plasmaproductions.net/apps/videos/videos/show/8830178-capital-district-news-channel-13-coverage-on-the-first-encampment- May 27, 2010 - Television news report on Blake Cortright's documentary "The First Encampment."

• Local boy scout preserves history in film wnyt.com/article/stories/S1580342.shtml?cat=10114 wnyt.com/article/stories/S1580342.shtml?cat=10114 May 27, 2010 - Local history is being preserved by a first-time filmmaker, who is a sixteen-year-old boy scout from Latham.

• Film documents scouting history poststar.com/lifestyles/today/article_8a353386-66df-11df-8c4e-001cc4c002e0.html poststar.com/lifestyles/today/article_8a353386-66df-11df-8c4e-001cc4c002e0.html May 23, 2010 - Inspired by scouting from generations ago, 16 year-old Blake Cortright is sharing a bit of little-known history in an upcoming documentary. The Latham Eagle Scout, who acted as director/producer/editor, has just wrapped up an eight-month project on

• Finding merit in history of Boy Scouts www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=931729&TextPage=1 www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=931729&TextPage=1 May 17, 2010 - Blake Cortright became an Eagle Scout at the young age of 14, and two years later he created a documentary about the Scouts' first camp that will air May 29 on public television.

• SHS student produces documentary to air on WMHT www.northcolonie.org/news/2009-10/100514_shs_cortright_documentary.htm www.northcolonie.org/news/2009-10/100514_shs_cortright_documentary.htm May 14, 2010 - Shaker High School sophomore, Blake Cortright, is on the fast-track to a promising career in the film industry.

• Tracing Scouting's Origins to Silver Bay on Lake George www.adirondackalmanack.com/2010/05/tracing-scoutings-origins-to-silver-bay.html www.adirondackalmanack.com/2010/05/tracing-scoutings-origins-to-silver-bay.html May 14, 2010 - The Boy Scouts of America has been called the largest environmental organization in the country, and its handbook a conservation best seller. That both were launched one hundred years ago on Lake George, at Silver Bay, might have remained forgotten were it not for the work of a fifteen year old film maker from Latham.

• Student Matthew Elton demonstrates mastery of Chinese language at national competition blogs.messiah.edu/news/2011/05/03/matthew_elton/ blogs.messiah.edu/news/2011/05/03/matthew_elton/ Matthew Elton, a junior communications major, is mastering more than just the English language. Elton recently competed in and won third place in a Chinese language competition in New York City.