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TEENAGERS in the Dulais Valley could soon be giving Steven Spielberg a run for his money after being handed a new £80,000
computer system.
Seven Sisters Community Centre has now become home to a Digilab – a computer training package boasting the very
latest equipment.
And it includes everything the youngsters need to make their own films.
The Dulais Valley Partnership successfully applied for one of the unique Digilabs which are now being
installed in Objective One areas in South Wales.
It is an Assembly initiative using European cash and co-ordinated by Canllaw Online, a charity providing information
services to young people.
The new Digilab based at Seven Sisters includes a digital camcorder and cameras, together with an editing programme.
It also boasts a series of Pentabs, portable computers that can be used up to five miles away, linked to the centre by
radio.
Dulais Valley Partnership youth development worker, Michael Heath, said the project was being supported
by Seven Sisters Community Council and by Neath Port Talbot Council's youth service.
"We are also looking to open it for a few hours two days a week, so it will become a sort of computer drop-in centre;'
he said.
Initially, it will be aimed at youngsters, particularly those aged 14 to 16, but there will be scope for others in the
community to use it."
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