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Youth Media Educators

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Youth Media Educators Description

Just Think’s Youth Media Educators (YME) program is a unique training opportunity designed to provide young people with media arts skills and prepare them for the 21st century workplace. Every summer, high school students from all over the Bay Area are chosen to participate in a paid, six-week intensive summer program. YME Student/Interns learn to critically think about the media as they master the core concepts of media literacy, engage in media production, learn essential workplace skills and gain peer-to-peer teaching tools.
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Student Filmmakers

Bhutan Background

In April of 1999, Lyonpo Sangay Ndgedup, Minister of Education of Bhutan (currently the Minister of Government.) approved a collaborative media education project to teach 20 students to produce a series of 12- 15 minute narratives or documentaries for the Bhutan Broadcast System (BBS)

Bhutan

In April of 1999, Lyonpo Sangay Ndgedup, Minister of Education of Bhutan (currently the Minister of Government.) approved a collaborative media education project to teach 20 students to produce a series of 12- 15 minute narratives or documentaries for the Bhutan Broadcast System (BBS)

Youth Media Educators "Pioneers"

Check out this years productions:

Ctrl Alt Delete
Get Naked
Racial Cross Dresser
YME ’07 Summer Synopsis and Promo Video

This summer’s YME ’07 program, “Pioneers” paid youth interns $1000 to learn media literacy education, peer teaching and entrepreneurial skills. After a record number of applicants applied for YME this year, The internship began with 11 students on July 9th and completed August 18th at SomArts Cultural Center in San Francisco.

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