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May 15 2018
YOUmedia Spotlight: Kansas City Digital Media Lab
The YOUmedia Learning Lab in Kansas City gives teens space, time, and support to “hang out, mess around, and geek...
June 13 2017
Moving Past Start-Up: Supporting Library Makerspaces Over Time
A group of YOUmedia makerspaces band together to innovate and support library makerspaces facing the opportunities and challenges distinctive to...
February 21 2017
‘Read Brave’ Fosters Passionate Reading and Intergenerational Dialogue
Read Brave is a city-wide one book project in Saint Paul, Minnesota, facilitated by a small but passionate group from...
May 02 2016
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 expertise, and work toward improving...
November 16 2015
What Libraries Offer the Maker Movement
A growing group of libraries have opened up space for maker projects as one way of experimenting with new identities...
April 22 2015
Miami Teens #ShareTheLove With Nonviolence Campaign and Concert
Teens from YOUmedia Miami grow an antiviolence campaign by flooding social media with messages of nonviolence and providing a platform...
January 30 2015
Empowering Mentors, Empowering Youth: Remembering Brother Mike
“Mentorship to me at its core is about love, you loving what you do enough to pass that knowledge on...
December 03 2014
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 be a teen hangout spot....
April 04 2014
YOUmedia Teens Make Their Creative Mark
When Chancellor Bennett was suspended during his senior year at Jones College Prep in 2011, few would have guessed that...
