Goal Two: Launch The Professional Technology and Engineering Center
Goal Two: Launch The Professional Technology and Engineering Center
At the Youth Media International Network students will have access to the highest quality of new media technologies and the building will be wired with cutting-edge digital equipment. The Technology and Engineering Center will serve as the hub for managing the Network facility and positioning young people ahead of the technology curve.
The goals of the Professional Technology and Engineering Center are to:
- Train the next generation of converged multimedia professionals for engineering and information technology. Youth media producers, who typically use low-end tools, will become technology experts, mastering equipment often reserved for world-class companies like Skywalker Sound and Pixar.
- Provide a living laboratory for young people to learn skills to co-design and operate the Network’s multi-layered technical infrastructure, high-speed fiber grid and digital production studios for radio, music, video and new media streams. Young people will have direct access to evolving technologies to participate in collaborative, real-time editing and recording for media production with reporters and producers in Youth Radio’s national and international bureaus.
- Improve young people’s access to and training on professional state-of-the-art multimedia technologies in radio, television, film and web production. Students will learn digital editing (Audacity, ProTools, Final Cut Pro, iMovie), professional audio board operations, field recording and engineering, online programming and editorial production and design (Dreamweaver, Flash).
- Develop advanced workforce engineering training programs in traditional and emerging multimedia and information technologies with local high schools and community colleges. Students will receive high school and college credit and the skills they acquire will be transferable to leading jobs and careers in the Bay Area’s digital and technical economy.
- Partner with Pixar Animation Studies, Skywalker Sound, Fuji, ZAP Zoetrope Productions, iGrid, and EdNet to expose young people to multimedia, information technology, engineering and studio management jobs and internships.
