Tag: Youth

  • Teen Cooking Show Teaches Culture, Cameras and Chopping Skills

    By Jill Replogle “So directors, in order to get something going, you say ‘quiet on the set,’” Kristine Diekman shouts across the room to the two high school girls poring over a script. Diekman is a professor of video and new media at Cal State San Marcos. Photo Courtesy of Cooking It Up Mics and…

  • ‘Everyone Has a Chance to Succeed in City Heights’: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson The AjA Project’s PhotoCity class at Crawford High School has spent the last couple of weeks using abstract photography to showcase the negative and positive aspects of socializing in City Heights. Fernanda, 16, captured two images that she felt represented the positive and negative sides to social life in her neighborhood. “I…

  • ‘Waste No Water’: Teen Producers PSA

    Youth videographers in the Media Arts Center San Diego’s Teen Producers Project submitted the above video for a contest put on by the City of San Diego’s Water Conservation Program. The contest challenged San Diegans to create public service announcements on water conservation. This PSA and others created by the teen producers are now running…

  • ‘Get Help, Not Guns’: Teen Producers PSA

    As the nation cobbles together legislation to prevent tragedies like the Newtown shooting, youth in California are weighing in. Students throughout the state contributed to a video produced and circulated by The California Endowment that “demands a plan” to bring more social and mental health services to schools in an effort to solve gun violence.…

  • ‘Still Some Really Good Opportunities’ in City Heights: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson Students in The AjA Project have been reflecting on the positive and negative sides to socializing in City Heights as a teenager. One student, Michael, 16, is picking up that narrative with two images: one that represents a negative side and one that represents a positive side. “Something that I would like…