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“Third Annual Youth Media Forum for Social Change” honors local high school media

Posted on May 12, 2012 in Youth Media Forum for Social Change

“Third Annual Youth Media Forum for Social Change” honors local high school media

Story courtesy of Jen Henry
Special to Land Park News

www.valcomnews.com

Local talent from the area’s high schools and middle schools was in the spotlight at Access Sacramento’s “Third annual Youth Media Forum for Social Change” on May 11. The event ran live on AccessLocal.tv and was hosted by Sacramento Press.

The annual Access Sacramento event honors youth-created digital media projects from throughout the region. Teachers and students from around the world were invited to participate online. For the first time, John F. Kennedy high school joined the live “streaming” television program as a virtual studio. Middle-school students from Will C. Wood also demonstrated their “Youth Block Reports” project.

Thirteen other video projects and their young creators were featured and discussed. All youth participants received special “The Story is You – My Voice Counts” t-shirts, thanking them for their participation. More than 80 youth and mentors were in attendance and many more watched the “live” stream of the event.

Access Sacramento, UC Davis – School of Education, and The California Endowment, awarded $750 in Apple product gift cards to projects juried from the Tower of Youth Teen Digital project entries. Ron Cooper, Access Sacramento executive director, presented the “My Voice Counts” awards and t-shirts to the following winning projects:

First Place: “Texting and Driving – It Can Wait” from Christian Brothers High School students Jessica Szarek and Ryan Peadboy.

Second Place: “Think Before You Act” by Granite Bay High School students Eric Urmanita and Carson Johnson.

Granite Bay High students Carson Johnson and Eric Urmanita (left to right), receive Youth Media Forum Honors from Access Sacramento’s Ron Cooper and Sac Press Editor-in-Chief Jarod Goyette for their video “Think Before You Act”.

Gang Violence in Sacramento

Posted on August 4, 2011 in Neighborhood News, Youth Media Forum for Social Change

By: Alyssa Bartholomew

The Summer of Service (SOS) program is a part of the Sacramento City School district where incoming freshmen work on service learning and community service. The students that participate in the program learn the ability to work together and help the community while having fun. Students get the choice of what area they would like to serve the community. My teammates and I chose Gang Violence in Sacramento because gang violence is a very serious issue in the Sacramento community. After researching the issue, we discovered that the most common age group to join a gang is between the ages of 12 and 14. My group was very curious as to why gangs have such an impact on young teenagers. We learned that most young teenagers look to gangs as a way to fit-in, they think it’s cool, or they want protection. Another reason young teenagers join gangs is lack of family support and they are looking to fill that void and be accepted.

We decided on creating a video for gang prevention and the impact gangs have on our community. In our video, we demonstrate how a good student and person take the wrong path when his family life starts to fall apart. This path leads him to violence, theft, drugs, and a lack of education. By joining a gang he risks losing his life, due to the violence or his freedom to jail, or even worse prison. In creating this video we also want young teenagers to see that they do have other options and resources than to join a gang.

Our goal is to show the video to junior high school students and demonstrate how gangs will affect their life negatively in the long run. We also want to provide resources for young teenagers who are feeling the pressure to join a gang. There are alternatives and support for gang prevention in Sacramento.

During my time at SOS, I learned how important it is to help the community. SOS allows students to choose what area they interested in helping the community.

Motivation is Education

Posted on August 4, 2011 in Neighborhood News, Youth Media Forum for Social Change

By: Ashley Dong

The S.O.S. (Summer of Service) program takes place at West Campus High School and several other school sites within the Sacramento City Unified School District. The purpose of this program is to encourage students to take action for their community by creating projects that will have a positive effect on their community. Students participated for six weeks to work on their community projects. There are multiple groups that are taking action on various issues; my group is named, “Motivation is Education” and we address the issue of education for students.

Our community project is to create a motivational video that will show students of the Sacramento community the importance of staying motivated during school. The video will contain statistics, a comparison between different students, and how a student can make accomplishments/reach their potential. With the unfortunate budget cuts, teachers have been losing their jobs. Schools in our community are losing great teachers, that is why Sacramento students must “step it up” so they do not fall behind. Teachers are required to cover a certain amount of material yearly in order for students to perform well in standardized testing. So, if more students are inspired to do well in school, they will be on track and later may strive to accomplish more in their educational career. We hope that students will understand the significance of doing well in school to become successful.

My experience with S.O.S. was a great opportunity for me to become prepared for high school. The teachers at S.O.S. emphasized the importance of communication with other students in order for us to work productively. The teachers have given great advice for us to talk to companies/corporations professionally to persuade them to work as partners in our community projects. With this advice, I have talked to company’s confidently over the phone to arrange dates to have presentations. The preparations the teachers have given us has helped shape our community projects. S.O.S. is an outstanding summer program for incoming high school students to develop in socializing, participate in fun activities, and to be apart of their community.

When Bullies Take Over

Posted on August 4, 2011 in Neighborhood News, Youth Media Forum for Social Change

By Xitlali Sedano

School. Work. Online. Home. These are some of the many places where bullying takes place. This problem is not something you can get rid of after you stop going to school, because this issue will follow you for the rest of your life.

In the Summer of Service program (SOS) each student gets in a group and picks an issue big or small in the community. Then as a group, we come up with a project to help the community understand the issue and to show them how they can make a difference.

Bullying is the issue my group and I chose because this issue affects everybody no matter if they are a kindergartener or a movie star. Our group decided to inform kids in the second grade because we want to help stop the issue where the root of bullying begins, in elementary school. We plan to do so by creating a book on bullying and with this book we want to read it aloud to them while acting along. The book is mainly about a Bunny who bullies a new kid, Bear on his first day of school. In the book we want to show all the different scenarios. In the story we have one character that follows the bully, we have another one who stands up to the bully and one who is a bystander to show the different ways people react when seeing someone being bullied.

With this, we hope to educate and inform kids at a young age on the effects of bullying. With the knowledge they learn from our story, hopefully they will carry this on and pass the information onto siblings and other members of the school.

In the SOS program, I have learned and experienced a lot of new things. One of the major things I learned was how to build up my group working skills. When you are in a group, not everyone agrees with each other, so it is important to communicate with each other and find a medium where everyone agrees. When we were assigned a business presentation, I built up my public speaking skills. I did so because in order to make a company sponsor or donate to you, you can’t speak like a mouse, but have a strong voice in order to show them that I am here and I want to make a difference.

Go Green!

Posted on May 24, 2011 in Neighborhood News Video, Top News!, Youth Media Forum for Social Change

http://www.archive.org/details/GoGreen_790

A youth produced documentary about how we can all make our daily lives more green. It was produced by Latino Voices – a digital media, service learning program that was held during the SCUSD Summer of Service at George Sim Community Center.

SB 1070 Arizona Law

Posted on May 24, 2011 in Youth Media Forum for Social Change

www.archive.org/details/Sb1070ArizonaLaw

This is a youth documentary on SB 1070 produced by Latino Voices – a digital media, service learning program that was held during the SCUSD Summer of Service at George Sim Community Center.

Cultural Obstacles To College

Posted on May 24, 2011 in Youth Media Forum for Social Change

www.archive.org/details/CulturalObstaclesToGoingToCollege

This PSA explores some of the obstacles students trying to get into college can face. At UC Tech Camp, students spend a week at the University of California – Santa Cruz learning about higher education and advancing their media skills.

Mason White_Witness Responsibility

Posted on May 21, 2011 in Youth Media Forum for Social Change

http://www.youtube.com/v/5ZIIIccjyWM?version=3

The young producers of this short (Mason White, Alex Smith, Sylvester Charles), hope that this film will bring awareness to the issue of witness responsibility, and get people to realize what a big problem they’re causing when they don’t speak up.

Walter

Posted on May 21, 2011 in Neighborhood News, Top News!, Youth Media Forum for Social Change

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q84H51ewCNM&feature=channel_video_title

A short film surrounding the sudden meeting of two different characters both inspired by historical figures: Walter and Elizabeth. Walter is an artist who has tossed his craft aside, blinded by society’s obsession with wealth and careers that pay highly. Produced by students Alyssa and Cassandra Benjamin, and directed by Gabe Figueroa, this film hopes to bring light to this tragic societal norm.

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