Californians, Have Your Water Habits Changed?
Earlier this month, 17-year-old Youth Radio reporter Savannah Robinson did a story for NPR about how the historic California drought was…
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Making Hip Hop History with MIT’s App Inventor (Tutorial)
Don’t consider yourself an expert coder? That shouldn’t stop you from giving this lesson a try. It’s designed for intermediate…
Announcing: Innovation Lab Launches Newsroom App!
As a newsroom, we are constantly finding new stories, sharing articles, and editing, editing, editing. With quick turnarounds and strict…
Rapid Ideation! Let’s get started
The fall session with a brand new Innovation Lab youth team has begun. We opened by introducing students to the…
Is Cyberbullying Really A Problem For Youth?
With kids’ online and offline lives becoming one, it appears that harassment could happen every day, and all day. There is no logging off.
Young Adults: Can You Picture Your Retirement?
Do young people even think about retirement? That’s what we asked Youth Radio’s Asha Richardson, 21, Sayre Quevedo, 20, and Ashley Williams, 18.
The unanimous answer: Are you kidding?!
Why Buy When You Can Swap?
As a college student, I love this whole phenomenon of the “sharing economy.” That’s the term economists use to define a community of people who freely share and swap resources, often managed online through websites or forums. Turns out, actually paying for stuff, or just throwing it out, is so 2011–if you can share it instead.
Location Based Mobile Advertising – Google’s Following You
Are you in love with your location-based mobile services and app? Well, look for the fine print because Google and…
Brains and Beakers: Reinventing Musical Instruments
Welcome to Brains and Beakers 2010! Ever wondered how to make drums out of PVC pipe? Or Light-Emitting Diode (LED)…