Category: Blog
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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 nerves. For teens participating in a college preparation program at the Free Library of Philadelphia last summer, it was also filled with making, film production, and creating a set of badges for younger kids. With a grant from the Philadelphia…
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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 to the next person” – Brother Mike Hawkins The typical mentor at a YOUmedia Learning Lab has an active creative practice. These mentor/artists include video producers, rappers, poets, fashion designers, illustrators, and more, and often…
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Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums: Transformative Spaces for Teens, New Report out now!
The Learning Labs in Libraries and Museums program is a joint effort of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to support the creation of innovative teen spaces at libraries and museums and to unite these sites in a national network. The Learning Labs Report…
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The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Maker Jawn Initiative Receives IMLS Leadership Grant
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Maker Jawn Initiative has been awarded a National Leadership Grant for multi-generational Makerspaces in North Philadelphia, where we have been focusing our efforts as a YOUmedia Learning Lab, creating scalable space for youth programming. The Free Library initiative is one of only 31 projects chosen nationwide to receive a National…
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Rocking Positive Culture: Introducing YOUmedia Hartford!
On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 YOUmedia Hartford at Hartford Public Library officially opened its doors. The Library was part of a cohort in 2009 created by Chicago Public Library and the MacArthur Foundation that included the Miami-Dade Public Library, the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C, and DreamYard in the Bronx, NY. YOUmedia Hartford is the last…