perino and others as they teach high schoolers about filmmaking and media literacy let's check it  out the goal for this camp is to it's to dovetails for central themes the first theme is this idea of stem stem stands for science technology engineering and math and it's really an educational movement that's sweeping across the country today particularly here in cleveland high school this is a stem school so they focus on those four areas and we're working with a group of aspiring filmmakers who are working with ninth and tenth graders in the south to addle high school and they're teaching them how to make films and they're to be a good consumer and how to take stuff in but it's actually how to be a producer and make stuff happen so instead of being the passive recipients of adult decision making we're positioning young people to be powerful actors who are creating things for themselves in their communities you had discussions about advertising we talked about the black panther movement we talked about hip hop and the different types of conversations that we had i think are really important so that kids understand the diversity of media and when i first found out that was divided along side with the social moguls and the free child project to run this media can be cleveland high school i was really excited and i was even more excited when i found out that i could staff a few of my good friends  alyssa young and son we've all worked on projects before it was great to have austin as the camp director so he was somebody that sort of was the point person if we had questions or issues or anything like that and then i focused more foam i directed a youth group once but it was never like a teaching style and first time teaching it was kind of interesting and almost made me remind me of my high school teachers and at some point i didn't really like them but not like you know  it's a lot of respect for them to have to prepare a lot it was first i was a little nervous you know because i didn't know how to approach a kid as a teacher versus like a t a a or just as a friend so it was kind of a challenge to get some of these kids  know try to figure out these different learning styles of these kids as for you what they get is that they get an opportunity to see themselves fast forward it for five years i had you know it's really hard for a sixteen year old to look at was really happy about the guest because we had at this camp they were all very professional very very inspirational to the students it was such a pleasure talking to the students here are tenth graders eleventh graders  who want to know as much as they can about journalism about storytelling and what struck me was the questions they asked i mean they were just spot on my favorite john sure the journalist because i think he inspired me the most because he went out there and he actually took the time to get to know people gives me a chance to share with them my experiences and my knowledge with them and kind of connect into the past you know which which is i think is so critical he was one of my favorite g what people wanted and where his him came up and we were just like you know it's something we've all had to deal with and i think it was something we could easily do without having to research that much because we just know from our personal experience is a very subjective you know it's basically a collective through and when you watch it together so the fact that it's so subjective gives an opportunity for people from all different walks of life you know students in and essentially i think the work is like a necessity in making a film or anything at all and it's way harder than it looks like ok so you have this new this huge that day  fun yeah takes quite a lot of organizing and what was the most rewarding for me was seeing them interact with each other the way some of the perth professionals in the industry interact with each other it's kind of see them grow up that you know a split second to see what it's like and you know when they get older i think i mean i was the most rewarding part of teaching them i originally wanted to do engineering and graphic designing but after campaign i want to do more about like filming and reproduction stuff so i can do things like new generation wake up and inspire people to do more things for humanity the students at this media literacy workshop just are hungry to know as much as they can and i'll tell you what that passion you can't replace it and i saw it  we lucked out with this class of students they're really respectful and they made it super easy for us to run this camp and you know these kids deserve a lot of credit because they were really hard you know they were professional you know everyone stayed to their roles you know even whether they were a gaffer key grip actor director everyone was made sure that they contribute their part of the charity one of the great things that i've learned about this camp is that you know if i had any fear of the future about what our leadership will be like you know ten twenty years from now my peers are you know it levy a bit because the young people that we work with are