Austin PBS
Look Up!
Started: 2022
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: TV
A virtual or in-person presentation, designed by HS students with guidance from Austin PBS, exploring current teens’/tweens’ media habits, what is promising about them, and how to move from consumption to analysis, curation, and creation.
This project reaches tweens and teens via...
- Directly engaging t(w)eens via activities, events, or programs
- Media and/or educational content that is made by, with, or for t(w)eens
What topics does this project focus on?
Culture, society
Identity, relationships
Media literacy
Media making
Public media
Wellness, mental health
*
Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
No
Departments involved:
Education
Partner organizations involved:
Our pilot presentations occurred at UT Prep of UT-Austin, a summer STEM program for MS/HS youth.
Media and/or educational content
Who is the primary audience of the content?
T(w)eens
Who creates the media content?
T(w)eens and adults (in collaboration)
*T(w)eens
Who decides the topic areas of the content?
Both youth and adults (in collaboration)
Where is the content shared?
Other
*In-person and via Zoom
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
Other
*This collaboration was between Austin PBS Education team and the teen collaborators, who were recruited by a PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs teacher of Navarro HS, Austin ISD. Also, Austin PBS is in the planning phase of jointly operating Austin Community College TV, which will likely include teen participants who are ACC students.
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
3-10 hours
Contact time between youth participants and partner orgs:
11+ hours