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New Toolkit Shares Best Practices for Achieving Success in Youth-Centered...
"Reclaiming Digital Futures,” a free report and associated website is available for youth organizations to...
Introducing the Teen Hangout at the Loveland Public Library
Teen Hangout, part of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network, provides afterschool space for youth to...
YOUmedia Spotlight: Kansas City Digital Media Lab
The YOUmedia Learning Lab in Kansas City gives teens space, time, and support to “hang...
Maker Programs Strive to Reach All Students
Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators.
Moving Past Start-Up: Supporting Library Makerspaces Over Time
A group of YOUmedia makerspaces band together to innovate and support library makerspaces facing the...
‘Read Brave’ Fosters Passionate Reading and Intergenerational Dialogue
Read Brave is a city-wide one book project in Saint Paul, Minnesota, facilitated by a...
Implementing Connected Learning and Twenty-First-Century Skill Development in Programming
Professional development training at Nashville Public Library, a member of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network,...
Where Librarians, Educators, and Media Mentors Go Online to Learn
At the YOUmedia Community of Practice site, Learning Labs practitioners from around the country share resources and...
Making a Platform for Empowerment
Students learn in an environment that is conducive to building a sense of autonomy at...
Hang Out, Mess Around, Geek Out—Studio NPL Puts Pro-Grade Media...
An initiative to fill community spaces with programs using innovative equipment, software, and professionals is...
Hitting the Library Circuit With Mobile Making
In an effort to reach more patrons and spread innovation, librarians are taking their digital...
How One School District in Ohio Transformed an Empty High...
The YOUmedia Learning Lab network helps transform a vacant space into a thriving community of...
What Libraries Offer the Maker Movement
A growing group of libraries have opened up space for maker projects as one way...
YOUmedia Alumni Give Back to Program with Spirited Summer Festival
YOUmedia Chicago and well-known alumni/performers—Chance the Rapper and Malcolm London—attract youth to Teens in the...
In San Francisco, Teens Design a Living Room for High-Tech...
The Mix, a new 4,770-square-foot digital media center and digital learning space was designed, start...
Making the Case for a Makeathon
This post from our partner, YOUmedia, shows how one Learning Lab at the Lawrence Hall...
Miami Teens #ShareTheLove With Nonviolence Campaign and Concert
Teens from YOUmedia Miami grow an antiviolence campaign by flooding social media with messages of...
Philly Teens Prep for College Through Making and Badging
The summer before freshman year at college can be tricky—filled with anticipation, transitions, and sometimes...
Empowering Mentors, Empowering Youth: Remembering Brother Mike
“Mentorship to me at its core is about love, you loving what you do enough...
Community Teens Remix a National Art Museum in DC
You wouldn’t necessarily expect the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden—an arm of the Smithsonian Institution—to...