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RECYouth NYC

RECYouth

RECYouth is ‘Reel’ Education and Communication for Youth.

RECYouth, hosted at select computer resource centers in New York City, offers free digital technology workshops and classes for pre–teens and teens, and exposes them to marketable multimedia skills as they discover their creative imaginations, develop community awareness, make movies, photographs, animations, and music. In this program, media literacy is contingent to media production as youth create as they investigate, innovate, and interpret the world around them.

As part of the RECYouth program, pre–teens and teens ages 12 to 17 are introduced to many possible career options within the media industry in New York, but, more importantly, they are encouraged to engage the media landscape while they expand their creative imaginations, their consciences, their community awareness, and the implicit challenges and discoveries they soon face as young adults.

RECYouth is now accepting applications for Fall 2011 Sessions, beginning October 3, 2011.
Please contact recyouth@parks.nyc.gov for more information.

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