New for 2023 is the Lostin SXSW Experience! FIND THE MACHINE Whether you’re visiting Austin for the first time during SXSW or a long time Austinite, check out the exclusive Lostin vending machine in the lobby of the historic Paramount Theater on Congress Avenue in downtown Austin. Be sure to hurry to snag your own […]
Let’s start with the basics: What does it mean to “be a creative” or to “have a creative career”? At E4 Youth, when we talk about being a creative, we mean someone who works in a field that lets them showcase their skills and creativity to make something that will entertain, educate, inform, and/or persuade […]
Ana was born in Mexico City and has embraced her bicultural experience throughout her advertising career of 20 years. With a passion for culture and a career founded in Hispanic advertising, she has turned her attention to bringing that culture and diversity to the general market. After a career in account […]
Not hearing audio when you attempt to access on of our VR Remix Party projects on Glitch? Follow the instructions below. We recommend using the Firefox or Chrome broswer for the best results. Firefox browser: Click lock in upper left hand corner and set Permissions to “Allow Audio and Video.” Chrome browser: Click lock in […]
Most Teachers Don’t Look Like Our Students and That’s a Problem. Photo credit: Atlanta Blackstar Racial and ethnic minorities accounted for 20% of of all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the United States during the 2015–16 school year.– Pew Research Center, 2017 65% of the students in Central Texas are of color. – Texas Tribune. 2019 No matter […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Explore E4 Youth’s VR Experience of the former Harlem Theater, which stood at the corner of 12th & Salina St. 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 […]