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    Creative Leadership Academy

    Professional level training and employment opportunities for college age youth.

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    St. David’s Foundation Grant

    As part of the St. David’s Foundation Healthiest People Initiative, E4 Youth has received an $85,000 Innovation Grant.

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  • She Will Connect

    Read about our partnership with Latinitas and Intel to teach 1000 elementary and middle school girls to remix VR stories about their neighborhoods in the web browser.

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  • VR Remix Party 2.0 'One Sheet'

    We've made it easier than ever for people of all ages to remix VR in a web browser!

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Partners

Programs

Austin Digital Heritage Project

The Austin Digital Heritage Project provides professional level training and employment for youth that lead cultural and digital literacy activities throughout the community.

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In School

Get Creative Enrichment Clubs

Get Creative Enrichment Clubs

We custom match Career and Technology Education teachers with trained Creative Mentors that help students identify their interests and leverage them to build digital portfolios.

Career Exposure

Career Exposure

Guest speakers, workplace tours and mentoring opportunities. with top creative and technology professionals.

VR Remix Parties

VR Remix Parties

Empowering workshops that help youth of any age learn digital literacy skills and tell compelling immersive stories about their lives.

Training and Employment

Creative Mentors

Creative Mentors

Employment opportunities leading E4 Youth's enrichment clubs in local high schools.

Digital Docent

Digital Docent

Professional level training and employment opportunities in creative media and technology.

Shadow the Pros

Shadow the Pros

6 week paid fellowships working on projects for real clients like Lyft and Whataburger

Music Legacy ATX

Music Legacy ATX

Business of Music fellowship for emerging music professionals.

Professional Development

Building Social Emotional Resiliency In Youth

Building Social Emotional Resiliency In Youth

E4 Youth's Employability Curriculum helps educators build social emotional resiliency in youth of color.

Immersive Storytelling

Immersive Storytelling

We help educators integrate immersive storytelling into their classrooms using free and open source tools.

  • We believe that creative youth, particularly those from underserved communities are a drastically underutilized resource. We work with partners to invest cultural capital into these communities and deliver collective impact.

    Theory of Change

Recent News

E4 Youth Earns St. David’s Foundation Innovation Grant

As part of the St. David’s Foundation Healthiest People Initiative, E4 Youth has received an $85,000 Innovation Grant. The grant […]

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Austin Digital Heritage Project

Austin Digital Heritage Project We’re using oral histories and VR to “restore” legendary locations like the Harlem Theater across East Austin. Goals: […]

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Help Us Build the E4 Virtual Archive (E4VA) of East Austin Oral Histories

Help Us Build the E4 Virtual Archive (E4VA) of East Austin Oral Histories The E4VA, pronounced “Eva”, will serve as […]

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