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    E4 Youth Annual Showcase & Awards Show

    Check out highlights from our annual showcase and awards gala!

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    Help us build a pipeline of 10,000 K - 24 youth that embrace their stories and have the digital skills needed to thrive.

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    Join Digital Docents Elisa & Ben as they talk with local community members and leaders about their work and to learn more about E4 Youth's programs.

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  • What Once Was (WOW)

    What Once Was (WOW) is a location-based mixed reality storytelling engine that explores the impacts of gentrification.

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    Bryson WIlliams

    Bryson attended LBJ High School in Austin, TX, and recently graduated Texas State University. Through E4, Bryson earned 5 paid internships and at local ad agencies and start ups.

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    Creative Leadership Academy

    Earn cash gift cards of up to $250 as you work virtually with creative and technology industry professionals to build your digital portfolio/resume and earn additional college and career opportunities.

  • E4 Youth uses the arts, sciences, and technology to help youth find and pursue pathways to successful careers in the creative economy through hands-on-training, active mentorship, and exposure to real world opportunities.

  • Austin Digital Heritage Project

    Promote digital and cultural literacy through community storytelling events.

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    Creative Leadership Academy

    Earn cash gift cards of up to $250 as you work virtually with creative and technology industry professionals to build your digital portfolio/resume and earn additional college and career opportunities.

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    Enrichment Club Report 2018 - 2019

    E4 Youth's enrichment clubs served nearly 200 students at 9 high schools across Central Texas.

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  • A Night w E4 Youth Showcase Event

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  • 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.

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In response to the Covid-19 health crisis this summer, E4 Youth’s Shadow the Pros program has been cancelled this year. Instead of internships within local companies, high school students are now eligible to “virtually” participate in our Creative Leadership Academy which provides training and employment opportunities to creative youth as Digital Apprentices.

 

 

Shadow the Pros is a 6 week summer fellowship that provides promising youth with college/career coaches that guide them through a series of intensive career exploration activities that include:

  • Co-working in professional settings
  • Collaborating on creative projects for real clients
  • Developing resumes, portfolios and a professional online presence

Past Shadow the Pros partner companies include GSD&M, McGarrah Jessee, Permanent.org, Sherry Matthews, T3 and others. Past clients have included Lyft, Pizza Hut, Whataburger, Southwest Airlines, John Deere and others.

Applications for the summer program open up each Spring. Check back here for updates.

Shadow the Pros Success Stories

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 […]

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E4 Youth’s Summer Update: Wrapping Up Shadow The Pros 2018

Standing up in front of a client to present my work is never easy for me, and I’ve been doing […]

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E4 Youth / GSD&M Internship Recap

A recap of the Shaodw the Pros Internship experience at the ad agency GSD&M. Students developed a campaign for John […]

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