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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. technological solution. Youth-Created Apps.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

Over the last two years, eight of my peers and I have completed over 27,000 hours of service — that's years of service — and given our voices and passion to the task of shaping social justice here in the valley. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. He works with kids who rarely show up to school.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. Meet Anne.

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Join Me: Help Good Take Over

Connection Cafe

Some favorites: Daniel Lee, Levi Strauss Foundation – Former divinity school student not advancing social change in HIV/AIDS. Jack Andraka, teen inventor – Developed an inexpensive test to detect pancreatic cancer (of course that’s what all teens do over the summer, right?).

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Hospital Volunteering: 3 Things You Didn't Know & How the Web Can Help

Have Fun - Do Good

Hospitals need to supplement the traditional "pink lady," with volunteer opportunities for teens, baby boomers, and people in their 20s, 30s, 40s. interview college students via the web so that they can be interns when they come home for the summer). online marketing). Interviews (i.e Orientations and trainings (i.e.