Shadow The Pros 2019 Recap: What’s In It for the Pros? 

E4 Youth just wrapped up its 11th Shadow The Pros internship program. Each summer, teams of promising creative talent from Get Creative Enrichment Clubs and Creative Mentors work with E4 Youth industry partners on real-world creative and technology projects.   I’ve written in the past about how Shadow The Pros benefits the students who participate. After this year’s Capstone […]

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Enrichment Club Report

Enrichment Club Report Get Creative Enrichment Club members from Crockett High School pose with their Creative Mentor (center) at E4 Youth’s Annual Showcase event. Download the full report. As I wrote about earlier, E4 Youth has been going through our annual evaluation process. Our bread and butter programming is Get Creative Enrichment Clubs — trained college age Creative Mentors […]

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Creative Leadership Academy

PRESS RELEASE The Creative Leadership Academy (CLA) is a partnership between E4 Youth, the Moody College of Communication (MCC) and Division of Diversity and Community Engagement (DDCE) at the University of Texas at Austin. Working directly with MCC’s Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Erin Reilly and DDCE’s Director of Inclusive Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Ruben Cantu, […]

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Bringing VR Remix Parties to 1000 Latinx girls across Central Texas

E4 Youth is partnering with Latinitas and the Intel Foundation’s She Will Connect program to provide digital literacy training, peer networks, and gender-relevant content to fix the Internet gender gap. E4 Youth is providing professional development and support for Latinitas staff as they implement our VR Remix Party curriculum with 1000 elementary and middle school […]

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The Assault On the Psyche Is Real

The Assault On the Psyche Is Real As we move through the summer months, E4 Youth has been working on improving our evaluation methodology. As a small organization, it can be difficult to develop a robust process for measurement. We’ve struggled at times with this issue. So, last summer we got some support from our friends […]

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Austin Impact Accelerator 2019

Austin Impact Accelerator 2019 It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here on Medium. I’ve been busy living life, scheming on how to stay whole, writing proposals and doing due diligence for E4 Youth, the organization I founded over a decade ago. One of those proposals was for a City of Austin Innovation Grant […]

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Victory Grill VR Experience

Explore E4 Youth’s VR Experience of the Historic Victory Grill, right off I-35 in East Austin. Instructions [includes audio, best viewed in Firefox via desktop]: Use the hand cursor to drag the image in any direction. Direct the floating circle cursor over the thumbnails to transition to other 360° images in the gallery. Refresh browser […]

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Two men in East Austin look at new mural on 12th & Chicon, Austin TX

12th & Chicon VR Experience

Explore E4 Youth’s VR Experience of the “heart of Austin’s Black community,” the corner 12th & Chicon. Instructions [includes audio, best viewed in Firefox via desktop]: Use the hand cursor to drag the image in any direction. Direct the floating circle cursor over the thumbnails to transition to other 360° images in the gallery. Refresh […]

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