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Adobe Youth Voices

Adobe Youth Voices first-year sites named in Seattle, New York, Bay Area, London, and India

In its first year of working in collaboration with leading nonprofit youth media organizations, Adobe Youth Voices is helping young people engage with their communities by providing access to multimedia tools, training, and a worldwide network of youth, teachers, and program leaders. Using video, audio, digital photography, animation, and web design, the program empowers youth to explore and comment on their world and take an active role in their communities.

Adobe Youth Voices is now in progress in the following locations:

• San Francisco Bay Area — Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula, East Palo Alto and Redwood City; Build San Francisco Institute; Children's Discovery Museum; Downtown College Preparatory; Galileo Academy of Science & Technology; and KIPP Heartwood Academy.
• Seattle — Aki Kurose Middle School; Hamilton International Middle School; High Point Community Technology Center; James A. Garfield High School; McClure Middle School; Nathan Hale High School; and Youth in Focus.

Educators from Bay Area AYV sites in San Jose and San Francisco celebrate after completing the documentary filmmaking workshop on October 21.

• New York — Bronx Leadership Academy II; Bronx Satellite Academy (Arturo Schomburg Satellite Academy); Lang Youth Medical Program; The School for Legal Studies; and Westside Collaborative Middle School (MS 250).
• London — Islington City Learning Centre Highbury; Kids Company; Lilian Baylis Technology School; Paddington Arts; and St. Charles Catholic Sixth Form College.

Young media makers from the Bronx Leadership Academy II, an AYV site, talk about their work at the New York orientation event on September 21.

• Delhi/Noida, India — Akshay Pratishthan School; Bal Panchayat; Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group; CRS Kanya Girls' Intercollege; Kislay; Noida Public Senior Secondary School; and Pravah.
• Bangalore, India — The Association for Promoting Social Action (APSA); Government Girls' High School, Adugodi; Government High School, Jyothipura; Government Urdu High School, Barlane; Samvada; Slum Jagattu Media Group; Vivekavardhini High School; and Christel House India Learning Centre.

AYV site mentors talk about how they will support educators at the Bay Area orientation event held at Adobe on October 20.

"The sites, schools, and organizations we've selected have a long history of success in engaging youth with the world around them," said Michelle Mann, senior manager of Corporate Affairs and Community Relations at Adobe. "Together, we'll help young people make their voices heard to make positive changes in their communities."

The program consists of various projects supporting collaboration with other young people in the participants' communities and throughout the world. Teachers and leaders for Adobe Youth Voices are attending orientation sessions in all geographies to learn more about the resources available to maximize the program in their communities. Adobe is providing creative software including Adobe® Creative Suite®, Adobe Photoshop® Elements, and Adobe Premiere® Elements to facilitate youth expression and financial assistance to aid in the production and broad distribution and exhibition of youth media products.

"Learning occurs best when young minds are excited and interested about the possibility of having a real impact on the world around them, and the learning remains when there are real audiences and applications for that learning," said Phyllis Gregory, London commissioner and advanced skills teacher, Lilian Baylis Technology School, London. "Digital applications allow young people to have that immediate effect."