On June 7, 2008, a team of students and staff from St. Labre Indian School in Montana flew to Washington, DC to participate in a Virtual Museum Workshop at the National Museum of the American Indian's Cultural Resources Center (CRC). The CRC, located across the Anacostia River in Suitland, Maryland, is the state-of-the-art collections facility that houses over 800,000 Native American objects. The goal of the workshop was to learn how to put together a virtual exhibition of both Cheyenne and Crow cultures based on over 35 objects the team had selected from NMAI collections. The school plans to use the training and student work that comes out of the workshop to support beading and other culture classes.

On the first day of the workshop, the team got a tour of the CRC, spending time with Collections staff looking at many items of interest stored in the secure, climate-controlled heart of the building. They also got to visit with Conservation staff and learn how the staff applies scientific knowledge and problem-solving to repair and prepare cultural items for exhibitions.

Once the workshop got underway, the students spent the remaining week researching and writing about each selected Cheyenne or Crow item with help from Cecilia Thex, the school's Project Coordinator, Philippe Franquelin, teacher, Alberta Harris Twenty Stands, counselor, and Nick Serres, English teacher. Some students did research and writing, while the rest were busy learning how to use professional digital still cameras to take pictures of each object. Some of the objects were shot on a turntable for every 10° of rotation. Later in the workshop they would learn how to assemble those images into QuickTime Virtual Reality object movies that enable people to rotate the virtual objects on a computer screen.

Other objects were shot "flat" with a high resolution digital camera. Those images were used to create Zoomify Flash media which enables people to zoom in on any area of the high resolution image to examine close details of the object. The students also learned how to assemble their interactive imagery and writing into Web pages using Adobe Dreamweaver.