WHRO convenes community leaders to screen the programs. The leaders of tomorrow those 25 and younger respond to what they've seen. Today's leaders listen to what their future has to say. These leaders include a minister, a school board member, the head of a boy's club, a banker, a college professor, a local rapper, and a financial planner. It airs several interviews as local inserts in Morning Edition before their television broadcast.
Producers repackage the television forum for radio broadcast.
The station develops a resource guide filled with information about community programs and names of those willing to serve as mentors. The station provides discussion and information about this project on television, radio, and online. WHRO provides Internet access to students in Ms. Walton's summer science class to help them study a fish kill in the York River. . The students collect water, test it, and compare it to information in Bay Link, an online data base developed by The Virginia Institute of Marine Science, the College of William and Mary, Old Dominion University, and other educational institutions. The children measure salinity , change the water temperature, monitor fish mouth movements, and conclude that the fish die from lack of oxygen.