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Conduct Urban Media Project after school events at the Boner Community Center.

URBAN MEDIA PROJECT provides creative youth media projects for inner city youth. During the after school camp sessions, high school and college students will work with elementary and middle schoolers as a part of paid internships to develop media literacy and critical communication skills in a fun, engaging atmosphere where the students explore their community and career possibilities.

Students will create a magazine of the camp activities and also film a fun camp video to be shown at the end of the summer.

Here's the plan to make it happen: 

Theme: Our Neighborhood:

Possible assignments: Go “Behind the Scenes” at Indianapolis Zoo/State Museum/Flying Cupcake/pizza maker, ice cream shop, zoo, for one day and then another group will tour the maker space lab on Tech's campus, then the groups rotate the assignments.

Day 1 - You are a reporter press passes/lanyards ethics how to interview 5 Ws, note taking recording

Interview each other – write a story about your person (type it) and take a picture (to be put at bottom of magazine on each page)

Day 2 – Behind the scenes field trip/tour of maker space – Complete assignment sheets

Day 3 – Deadline time/write stories, draw pictures – post online and social media – film camp fun video/lipsync

Day 4 - Field trip/tour of campus maker space – assignment sheets

Day 5 – Final deadline time – write stories and post social media – film/edit their report camp 

Of the $1,800, $500 will go to pay trained high school and college interns to work with students. $1,000 goes for teacher instruction and curriculum planning, and $300 will go towards printing the magazine. These funds will match a grant from The Hoosier State Press Association. 

This camp will get the students engaged and interested in learning through questioning and hands-on projects that develop their communication skills and sense of citizenship in the larger community. These students are often landlocked and isolated from community businesses, organizations and resources. The Urban Media Project gives them the opportunity to connect with their community by writing, speaking and developing and sharing their ideas and talents both digitally and in print.

They will take photos, writing stories and create artistic drawings and film video segments to be shared with other camp goers and the community through social and digital media.

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