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Broadband Day on the Hill. The freshly gilded 4-horse quadriga sculpture entitled “The Progress of the State” proclaims the front entryway of the majestic Minnesota State Capitol. The Capitol was the site March 15  of a Boreal Corps civic engagement field trip. Boreal Corps editor and Lutsen resident Sammie Garrity traveled with her mother Linda Garrity to take part in the state's first ever "Broadband Day on the Hill." Sammie testified and spoke with legislators about the importance of broadband internet to rural areas, emphasizing that having reliable highspeed service such as that available in Cook County makes creating this Boreal Corps' online newspaper possible! Besides the Capitol visit, Boreal Corps field trip included a behind-the-scenes tour of the Minnesota History Center where we saw, among other things, an early map of Minnesota that didn't have Lake Superior on it!

Badge Certifications


At Boreal Corps, we're proud of what we know and can do and have mastered: we're making the internet hum with our insights, arguments, poetry, illustrations, maps, cartoons and more.

​We earn certificate merit badges for digital achievements and place digital  badge tokens on the web pages we build, or sew cloth badges onto our clothing or backpacks. 

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Tree Badge

Writing for the Web & Fundamentals of Digital Storytelling 

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Arrowhead Badge

Basic Web Design & Principles of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

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Compass Badge

Digital Media Etiquette: Communication Strategies for Safe, Secure, Effective Online Interactions

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Bird Badge

Advanced, Rich Media Digital Storytelling: Principles and Practice

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Boreal Badge

Creating and Maintaining Human Community in a Machine Age

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​About BorealCorps 
BorealCorps is a children's newspaper and communication club originally sponsored by Boreal Community Media, a 501(c)(3) non-profit Minnesota corporation serving the North Shore www.boreal.org,  through a generous grant of the Blandin Foundation https://blandinfoundation.org/ 2017-2018.

After a year without funders, BorealCorps is back!
As of 2020, we are now sponsored by Minnesota Children's Press  www.minnchildpress.org and its Story Scouts program www.storyscouts.org.

Minnesota Children's Press is a new 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt public charity based in Grand Marais and determined by the IRS to be a tax-exempt public charity in fall 2019. Our goal is to engage rural kids in community-building and civic philanthropy early in life. We have members in grade 2 through high school working to provide local stories and oral histories to emphasize community  and connections.

To donate tax-free or help sponsor our community events, please contact us: howdy@borealcorps.org


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