i'm doing it printed as well so for the past two months these students have been learning how to record audio how to do audio editing how to conduct interviews and they've spent the time exploring the us or terrorists neighborhood and collecting different kinds of sound and all of the the recordings that they made are going to now go into an exhibition at the frog art museum that will be opening next week actually and we'll have another big party coming up in january that the community is welcome to that will be sent so it's been a really amazing workshop i think number of things i think  the students learned some technical skills but equally importantly is you know they were able to really kind of like explore the neighborhood and to really learn how to kind of think critically about the city and what but what it means to live in a community so it's a good kind of combination of learning some computer skills learning some media skills but also learning some critical thinking skills so i think it's a really wonderful experience for the students speaking personally it was an amazing experience working with these kids none of whom i'd never met before and just i learned an incredible amount and it was continuously impressed with how hard they worked and just how creative and and smart they were so i think i know i'm feeling really proud of what we've accomplished here and i'm really looking forward to seeing all of their work presented at the friar museum in the coming months well this fraud so i'm hoping that this is not the end of this project but rather will be doing additional workshops and building new collaboration with different people in different organizations over the coming years hi i'm laura and i work at the  museum in a part of intangible effects number one here and you're seeing our last day of big celebration and it will be in the museum starting december eighth and we'll have a big celebration community celebration and all are invited on  january twelfth and they'll be in the afternoon and hopefully mess up will be there and will cure or will cater the events and it will be a big party in celebration of all the work that we've accomplished over these last nine weeks so i invite you to come help you discover black history and educate the community about that it's also your chance to win a can a digital camera if you submit your films by january fifteenth then you will have access to editing suites and support on completing your fil a ceremony will take place in february next week we will be having workshops for the youth this winter break so you guys will be free  thursday and friday from four to five pm down at langston hughes performing arts center which is on seventeenth and yes later will be the workshop getting your story and then on  saturday we will also be doing a workshop from two to three and from three to four framing the script and shoot to edits help you guys get started on your film so if you want to find out more information visit facebook dot com and visit purple reels productions dot com to download your applications today we look forward to seeing your films purple rules purple tremble with purple rose production and look forward to seeing your fi and we're going to be interviewing nathan about his program called radioactive thank you ok now after that your background in radio yeah so i you work for radio active for the youth radio program it k w ninety four point nine f m it's the n p r station here in seattle so we're public radio and so my background is always been in public radio i started as an intern at the station and worked the learning how to produce radio shows and after that first summer that i was interning i started to work with what was then a very new youth radio program at the station and helped to build that program over the next several years and the program then was called weekday high and weekday high was summer only workshop for high school students to teach the basics of radio journalism and over the years it's developed in changed and we still have a summer program but it's now become an entire year round program so we run not only a summer workshop with young people but afterschool workshops as well and we run we have a monthly youth radio show as well that's produced by alumni of our workshops so radioactive is currently doing running workshops around the city and in the university district which is where the station  workshop on basic radio journalism skills so for the first time for the program we're going to be teaching hands on skills like interviewing recording audio editing how to write for radio and then the second half of the program the youth actually pursue research and do interviews for a story of their choice so it's a story about someone who interests them who has a unique story to tell and they interview that person write a script where they tell the  story and maybe bring in other audio elements like music or interviews with other people to tell the complete story that about this person or this event or this organization and who else is manager for the program and this time during the spring we're actually going to be partnering with the ranger scholars program so each workshop that we do each afterschool workshop we partner with a different youth serving organization around the seattle area so how are you going to pay your student and qualities and looking yeah so it is we unfortunately we can only offer spots in the program and that's because we want to keep it small so that jenny and i can work one on one with each of the students to really give them the time and attention to help them produce a really high quality story so that's why we keep the program small we have an application applications can be found on our website w dot org slash radio active and that location basing information about the youth obviously but then really the heart of the application is that we have each person pitch us a story that means we ask them to tell us about a story that they would want to report on who's a person that's doing something interesting that you would want to talk to what would you want to find out about that person about what they do and so we kind of walk watch each walk each applica through the process of thinking about how to pitch us a story and then we go through the applications and are looking for stories that we would be interested in hearing on the radio and those are the stories that we're excited to work with young people to produce most people  high school who are in student body and video seems a little bit out of the way tell us why would you be interested in radio and really what can you take with them so i think this program is great for young people who are interested in writing young people who are interested in any kind of performance for any young person who's just curious about the world around them we don't expect any kind of journalism radio newspaper experience we just are looking for young people who are excited to tell the stories of the people in their communities we're looking for storytellers so people who are wanting to write wanting to speak wanting to research about some topic and then share that topic with a wider audience when students go through our program we are hoping that they will have fun that's a big part of what we think is important when you're learning anything new is that you enjoy learning it so everything we do is hands on for example i brought today a little profit writing one of the recording kits that we use during the program so during the program each youth gets checked out their own recording equipment and they get to use this recording equipment for the full for the full program we also check out laptops where audio editing software so that each of the students are really equipped to do a story like a professional journalist would be so in addition skills like writing for radio skills like using the equipment using the audio editing software how to present themselves on the air we're also hoping that they get other skills like just the love of storytelling in general accomplishment when at the end of the workshop each student has finished their own you know high quality radio story there's a lot of pride that comes from that and in fact at the very end of each workshop we have a listening party where we invite the friends and families and community members of the young people who are involved in our program to listen to all their stories and celebrate the great work that they've done well what would you be committing to them so the program is nine weeks so from february eleventh till april twelfth and make sure i got those dates right yes no february twelfth april eleventh so then the workshop runs february twelfth to april eleventh so that's nine weeks and it meets every tuesday and thursday from four thirty to six thirty at the twenty one hundred building so it's twice a week we also have a couple of field trips that we do outside of those hours so the friday the first friday of the program is actually in service it's well it's mid winter break for seattle public schools and so that friday is a day off of school and so we actually go to to the radio station get a tour of the station meet some of the professional journalists who work there and watch a show be produced lives and then the following week we actually meet on a saturday talk about interviewing and then go as a group to the pike place market and interview people on the street strangers on the street people who are visitors people who are shoppers people who are working in the stands people who are playing music on the street and kind of practice those new interviewing skills using the recording equipment and then there's also a field trip at the end of the workshop where we come back to the station for you actually to record your story in the professional recording booths at the station so it's it's regularly tuesdays and thursdays but there are a few field trips peppered in there as well they're at the end of the day i think that's that's what keeps me keeps me working with young people there's a lot of fun and it's also really satisfying and exciting for me as an educator to see the young people that i work with pick up the skills and then use them beyond just the workshop so we don't necessarily feel like we have to train journalists if people want to go on to do journalism after the program that's great and in fact some of our young people who have to our programs have gone on to become professional journalists but most of them don't most of them though do take the skills that they that they learn and apply them to whatever they are you know whatever their passion is whatever their interest is and that's really exciting to see to see them take something like interviewing and apply that to a lot of different a lot of different areas and i think that storytelling in general and especially storytelling through through the power of radio which can reach so many people is a really important skill to have and i think it's i think it's a great a great thing for young people to learn how to produce so that they can continue telling their stories and the stories of the people around them out into the future ok nate in the film think a lot of on application applications are due on monday january twenty first so applications are open now you can find an application at our web site again w dot org slash radio active you'll fill out the application you'll pitch us the story and send that application back and as long as it's in by january twenty first we'll review those applications do some interviews with folks and then let people know by the end of the month who's who's part of the program thank you for joining it th