7. PopSquad + Hive Youth Council!
Calling all
Superhero Storytellers
Madcap Media Makers
Trickster Techies
and Audacious Artists!
Create collaboratively
using Mozilla Popcorn
Maker!
What do you see as
the future of
PopSquad?
12. YOUNG
REWIRED
STATE
NYC
A two-day design challenge where teens will:
• Level up their coding skills
• Work with professional programmers
and open government data
• Build digital prototypes to solve
real NYC problems
June 29 and 30
10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m.
th
th
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria
Open to teens 18 and under.
Some basic coding skills are required.
This program is completely free.
For more information, or to sign up, go to bit.ly/yrsnyc.
#YRSNYC
Young Rewired State NYC is supported by the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust
Thursday, August 15, 13
YOUNG
REWIRED
STATE
NYC
A weekend-long learning event hosted by Young Rewired State (YRS),
Museum of the Moving Image and Mozilla Hive NYC
JUNE 29–30, 2013,
10:00 A.M.–7:00 P.M.
Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35 Avenue, Astoria, NY 11106
Young Rewired State NYC will bring 50 New York City-based teens and tweens together
with programmers, creatives, developers and other mentors for a design challenge to
solve real-world problems for the City of New York. Youth will build working digital products
and prototypes featuring at least one dataset available through New York City’s NYC
Open Data initiative.
The project will introduce youth with an interest in coding, design and civic engagement
to professionals in the local creative and technology sectors, helping teens cultivate the
computational literacy skills necessary for college and career readiness.
19. G I R L S
W R I T E
N O W :
T H E
D I G I T A L
M E D I A
M E N T O R S H I P
P R O G R A M
20. M E N T O R I N G
T H E
N E X T
G E N E R A T I O N
O F
W O M E N
W R I T E R S
… A N D
D I G I T A L
M E D I A
P R O F E S S I O N A L S ?
21. • Creatively incorporate the
GWN flagship writing
program with the digital
media program.
• Improve both writing and
technological skill.
• Ignite passion for digital
storytelling
• Uncover model for digital
media mentorship that can
be duplicated
• Empower the next
generation of women
writer and multimedia
enthusiasts
W H A T
W E
H O P E
T O
C H A N G E / D I S C O V E R
22. • Mentors in the Pilot
wanted more writing in
the program
• Some Mentors struggled
to learn InDesign in three
workshops
• Product of wasn’t
contingent on quality of
writing.
U N F O R S E E E N
C H A L L E N G E S
23. H O W
T H I S
H A S
I N F L U E N C E D
O U T
W O R K
H O W
T H I S
H A S
I N F L U E N C E D
O U T
W O R K
24. H O W
T H I S
H A S
I N F L U E N C E D
O U T
W O R K
25. •
What
is
your
organizaIonal
standpoint
on
interacIons
over
the
internet
between
youth
parIcipants
and
volunteers/staff?
Q
&
A
27. Learn and discover with
the project
Engage youth to learn about opportunities
available through HIVE
Leadership opportunities to plan and produce
events
Create opportunities for youth collaboration across
HIVE organizations
Have a youth voice to inform HIVE programs
30. Learning Digital Tools
Learn Mozilla Pop Corn
Create popcorn video to promote explain EmotiCon: http://popcorn.webmadecontent.org/v8l
One billion rising campaign:
http://tmblr.co/Zpk9cxe8fnK3
31. Summer 2013
Create HIVE is... video
Plan and produce design challenge “That Could
Be Your Sister”
34. Lessons learned
Retention after Emoti-Con
Define projects and deadlines clearly from start
HIVE orgs understand the benefit of youth council
Create a communication between youth and HIVE
management
35. How the project informs
work going forward
GK creates opportunities for leadership roles
Collaboration between HIVE organizations
Different youth voices and perspectives
Share skills obtained by youth at different
organizations
