WHYY, Inc.
WHYY Summer Media Production Camps
Started: 2009
- Currently active
- Created by our station
Station type: Joint license
WHYY offers summer camps for teens and tweens. Camps are intensive media production experiences that follow WHYY’s approach to youth media: project-based, learn by doing and failing, youth-guided, real-world experiences. For years, we offered only multimedia journalism and filmmaking camps. During the pandemic, we shifted those offerings to include photography and stop-motion animation.
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?
Civic engagement
Current affairs
Education
Identity, relationships
Journalism
Media literacy
Media making
Wellness, mental health
*
Is this project considered part of the station's journalism work?
Yes
Departments involved:
Education
Newsroom
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?
Other
*youth only
Where is the content shared?
YouTube
Broadcast TV
Directly engaging tweens and teens in local programming
In this project...
We host programming directly for t(w)eens
Contact time between youth participants and station staff:
11+ hours