For over a decade EarthScope Media and the Teen Environmental Media Training Program has been providing vocational training to high school students.
 

We provide them with hands on vocational training in journalism, communications and cutting editing technology. We offered paid internships to two graduates who served as mentors for new students and as roving reporters.

We additionally provided curriculum to enhance oral and written English for English Language Learners. We helped students gain knowledge about science, environmental and sustainability and health issues first hand directly from the leaders in these fields. All of our students completed their own radio story. Every student learned the tenants of good journalism, conducted research, wrote questions, interviewed leaders in the community, developed a media script, recorded their scripts, learned how to use sound editing software (used in film, radio and the music business), and completed radio ready stories in their own voices.  Some students also wrote press releases, articles and blogs, and learned how to use Social Media.

 In addition our program benefited:

 Our Community & The Public At Large:

Þ   By Providing News about crucial environmental and sustainability issues of the day

Þ   By Creating an Informed Public

Þ   By offering a call to action and/or follow up source

Þ   By Supporting Democracy by informing the public with news that is not compromised by commercial interests or advertisers.

The Environment:

Þ   By Promoting Environmental Stewardship

Þ   By Informing, educating and announcing environmental actions - organizations

Þ   By Plat forming Alternatives to harmful industrial practices- Bio-mimicry, Marin Clean Energy

Þ   By Educating & Informing and Connecting the Younger Generation about Environmental, Health and Sustainability Issues

Þ  By providing a Doorway to Green Careers.

We could not have done any of this without support from our long term partners including Marin County School to Career Program and KALW Radio.

We also could not have done this without the support of our funders:

The Fullerton Family Foundation

Good Earth

Susan Adams and others...:)

Many thanks for their support:)