WEDU’s Youth Media Challenge invites middle and high school students to explore how they see themselves, their world, and their future. Students create original audio, video, and images and publish them nationally on KQED’s Youth Media Challenge Showcase and locally on WEDU PBS online platforms.
The Youth Media Challenge is designed for use in many settings including classrooms, after-school programs, summer camps, and libraries. Students utilize technology provided to them or their own devices to create media in a variety of challenge formats.
Categories include the following: Commentary | Call to Change, Informational | Show What You Know, and Personal Narrative | First-Person Essay
225 is the piece I wrote about the struggles of being #Overweight. It's meant to portray the consuming thoughts of someone with body image issues and the struggles of shaking the belief that weight defines #Identity.
Submitted by Lanaya S | Leto High School | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
The focus of this composition revolves around embracing my true self and finding a sense of #Belonging and #Acceptance.
Submitted by Andres J | Blake High School | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
The Fight Within, focused on the #Mental battles of handling the outside world and the chaos that comes with it as a human being, which isn’t something we talk about a lot as a people. I emphasized those questions that we ask ourselves, and the things that we wonder about the world through an inside perspective.
Submitted by Pelaija M | Spoto High School | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
Contemplating the experience of being in a vehicle alongside someone who deeply appreciates my company and someone who seemingly doesn't allows me to ponder the significance of our #Connection.
Submitted by Courtney H| Steinbrenner High School | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
My poem depicts the difficulties of living in #Florida today. The poem discusses the social difficulties and the legislation that has recently affected Floridians. More specifically, the poem discusses legislation targeted at #Students and how that has affected me and others.
Submitted by Jayden C | Armwood High School | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
We can help people who have no #Water or limited water by #Recycling, building proper toilets and many more.
Submitted by Kavyasri K | Williams Middle Magnet | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
My project is about how #Racist the media has been when covering #Ukraine. In my podcast, I propose a solution to stop this bigotry.
Submitted by Annissa D | Williams Middle Magnet | Hillsborough County as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
Giving a plant some #Fertilizer helps it grow, but not into something that ends up killing the local population of fish. However, because of eutrophication, this is a reality, and it’s becoming worse as time goes on. It’s hurting our #MarineLife and us as well. If the algae are thriving, then the fish are certainly dying.
Submitted by Maanika S | Williams Middle Magnet | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge
Animals are living, breathing beings and deserve to be treated as such. More than 100 million animals die in labs every year because of these tests and it is unnecessary. #AnimalRights #StopAnimalTesting
Submitted by Bryani J | P.A.C.E Center for Girls | Hillsborough Country as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
This announcement is to highlight #Bullying and what it looks like in schools and how you should respond.
Submitted by Mya F, Edmyre N, Artisha F | Sulphur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
This project is about sports #Expenses and how the kids or parent can't afford to play their favorite #Sport.
Submitted by Micah G, Brylen W, Bryce W | Sulphur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
I am explaining how #Pollution is affecting #GlobalWarming and how we can help fix this problem.
Submitted by Jeremy C | Sulphur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
What to do and how to help #Bullying.
Submitted by Ervelie D | Sulphur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
We need to help those with #MentalIllness and make places more affordable for people who are #Suffering to get help.
Submitted by Julianna W | Sulphur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
Cutting down trees can cause #ClimateChange. It could also increase #Pollution and cause soil erosion along with increased greenhouse gases.
Submitted by Nayalise B & Carlos M | Sulphur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
I am describing why #Pollution needs to stop. People should absolutely stop polluting.
Submitted by Phalisha W | Sulfur Springs Community School | Hillsborough as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.
There is a lot of research that supports eliminating or reducing #StandardizedTests in education and students experience intense testing #Anxiety.
Submitted by Tina P | P.A.C.E Center for Girls | Hillsborough County as part of the WEDU & KQED Youth Media Challenge.