About Us

New Voices For Youth is a course for High School students designed to encourage civic engagement through the media arts.  With the assistance of the League and community mentors, students will learn how to write, direct, edit and screen digital movies about an issue in their community.

Students work in teams and mentors help them learn how to:

• identify an issue
• research its roots
• identify reliable sources for facts and figures
• create a digital film to tell a story
• exhibit a film online and promote it utilizing social media

Through their participation in the New Voices For Youth Program, students develop many skills, such as:

• public speaking
  
• interviewing
  
• grassroots, activism
  
• team building
  
• research and writing
  
• movie development and production
• non-linear editing on Final Cut Pro