Testimonial: E4 Youth Parent, Inonge Khabele I’m an E4 Youth parent. Over the past three years, E4 has done some amazing things to support my son Thabo, who participates in the Music Legacy Project. Thabo is becoming the man I always knew he could be – that at one stage in his life, he couldn’t […]
Why Develop VR Storytelling Curriculum? My name is Carl Settles, Founder/Executive Director of E4 Youth. In the Fall of 2017, E4 Youth received a grant from the Mozilla Foundation Gigabit Fund to support the development of curriculum that helps high school media arts teachers integrate VR/Immersive stoytelling into their classrooms. As part of the grant, […]
“The more they learned, the more fascinated they were. The presentation showed that creatives are a big part of this STEM industry, which opened up new job ideas for these kids — things they didn’t even know they could do. ” It’s already been a couple of weeks, but the positive effects of SXSW are […]
RSVP Now Introduction Now’s a great time for high school journalism and audio/video production teachers and parents to get your students to learn about the future of media production. 360 video cameras that can shoot in 4K and stream live to the internet can be had for $150 and there are a wealth of free […]
When I first heard about Get Creative Enrichment Clubs, I thought the clubs were mostly about introducing various creative careers to kids and teaching them about creative tech tools. I figured the kids spent a lot of time “doing creative stuff.” Once I committed to writing blogs about these clubs, I found out I have […]
As January 2018 rapidly comes to a close, we wanted to take moment and look back at some of the things E4 Youth accomplished in 2017 and offer a brief preview of what’s to come. We now have a thriving ecosystem of 7 Get Creative Enrichment Clubs in 5 Austin area high schools serving over […]
Net Neutrality and What I learned at Mozilla Festival This video does a decent job of explaining Net Neutrality. It’s been just over a month since I returned from London and MozFest, the world’s leading festival for the open Internet movement. Just before I left, I wrote a #CarlGoneLearnVR blog post about my learning goals for […]
I seldom worked with any people of color in my first 15 years in the business. If you’re an advertising or marketing person from my generation, I’m willing to bet you have a similar story. “Oh, and we’ve assigned you to write the ‘Urban’ radio for this Pepsi promotion, because you’re the youngest writer on […]
Samajae is an offensive lineman for the Panthers. He’s also a fantastic videographer and editor who puts together news stories about Pflugerville High School athletics. Last year, through his participation in E4 Youth’s Get Creative Enrichment Club, he earned access to the SXSW Film Conference. He attended every day of the conference and soaked up as […]
Finding Allies As We Diversify the Creative Workforce Yesterday morning, I had coffee with Austin copywriter Brian Thompson and at the end of our convo, he handed me a generous donation. Brian had heard about E4 Youth through Creative Mornings Austin talk by local comedian, ad guy and E4 volunteer Carlton Wilcoxson. After reflecting on […]