The award provided a key financial investment to start the Mobile Action Lab. Youth Radio was one of the 2010 winners of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media Learning Competition. It partners young people with professional app developers to create five mobile and web-based apps that serve real needs in the community, such as finding free food distribution, youth and police relations and other resources. Mobile Action Lab provides 14-24 year olds training and hands-on experience in media and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Meanwhile, the skills participants learn are valuable commodities in today's tech-driven economy. Now it's taking on another venture: app development.Ĭalled the Mobile Action Lab, Youth Radio's new initiative helps young people learn to propose, design and market computer and smartphone-based apps that serve community needs. The program has helped young people develop marketable behind-the-scenes and on-air skills, winning it the most coveted awards in journalism. to a national organization with bureaus in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington, D.C. In nearly 20 years, Youth Radio has grown from a small radio skills training program in Berkeley, Calif.
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