Chicago Youth Voices Network

In a time when schools are struggling to keep students invested in their education and engaged in endeavors of social awareness, learning, and purpose, in 2011 CYVN will carry out Chicago Youth Interactive (CYI), a public education and civic engagement project that brings powerfully compelling stories, documentaries, and media products made by Chicago youth to [...]

Young Chicago Authors has done it again – pulled off another amazing city-wide poetry slam – Louder Than a Bomb!
The largest of its kind in the world, Louder Than a Bomb (LTAB) is the city’s rapidly-growing teen poetry festival. Aiming to bring teens together across racial, gang, and socio-economic lines, LTAB is a friendly competition [...]

PLANet YOUTH 2040: Look to the Future will be YPN’s fourth annual conference, where youth and adults nationwide will explore long-range solutions to creating healthy, equitable cities & regions.  Over one-hundred young people will participate in:

Skill-building workshops
Peer presentations
Mobile workshops
Facilitated discussions
Open mic night
A film festival, and more!

YPN is organizing this year’s conference with our [...]

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur has just released a new publication,  Re-Imagining Learning, that is available for free downloading here.
Preparing young people to compete and thrive in a global, connected world demands new ways of thinking about education. Digital media has the potential to help us fundamentally re-imagine teaching and learning. We must [...]

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 25, 2010!
Imagination. Education. Celebration.
Young visionaries let their voices be heard at Cinema/Chicago’s CineYouth Festival. Celebrating its sixth year in 2010, the CineYouth festival showcases and celebrates filmmakers 20 years old and younger.
During the three day Festival, CineYouth provides young filmmakers the opportunity to attend numerous workshops (past workshops include: Screenwriting 101, [...]

Beyondmedia Education and Open Youth Networks are leading workshops at the 2010 Allied Media Conference in Detroit this summer June 18-20, 2010.
OYN is presenting a couple of workshops in Game Design using Scratch. The tacks for this year’s conference are as follows:
Indigenous Media and Technology

Medios Caminantes: Medios creando, fronteras derrumbando

Do-It-Yourself Technology

Rad Art: 2-D images for [...]