Series: Engaging Youth Through Radio Project
Produced by WTIP
Image by: Carah Thomas
WTIP Youth Radio Project
WTIP's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project features the work of YRP students. These short 3- to 5-minute features pieces by youth for youth, and explore issues and themes with a youth focus.
WTIP’s "Engaging Youth through Radio" project provides local youth with enhanced opportunities for self-exploration, self-expression, and community involvement by promoting their unique perspectives and highlighting their valuable contributions. This series features these students and the audio documentaries they've created that reflect the concerns and opinions of the local youth culture.
41 Pieces
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Relay for Life is an event helps to raise funds for the fight against cancer. Like many things in life, no one can fight cancer alone – it takes ma...
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 00:02:34
Paul Samuelson graduated from high school in northeastern Minnesota in 2010. He joined the military, and just recently returned from a tour in Iraq...
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 00:12:09
How do we decide to do something for the first time? Audrey Summers, of WTIP's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project, considers this question in t...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 00:02:38
Getting a pet is a “first” that most kids remember. Often times, what a kid expects when getting a pet is far from the reality. Shawn Neuwirth, of ...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 00:02:05
In this short poem, WTIP youth producer Zack Anderson conveys the flowing together or the ideas, thoughts and sounds that converge in his head as h...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:00:37
Sometimes, just sometimes, words don't do justice. In this short poem, youth producer Michaela Peterson tells a story that reflects these rare mome...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:02:57
Tourists, boyfriends, throat aches. All of these things have left Kaylee Cronberg simply stressed. In this short poem, she recounts her day and sha...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:04
In the last hour of the school day, youth producer Emily Terrill's thoughts float out of the window, over the trees, across the roads, to home. In ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:10
The dark can evoke a lot of different emotions, and for youth producer Cecilia Schnobrich, the darkness of 2:00 A.M. brings back a beautiful memory...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:20
It's hard to be separated from the ones you love, especially if they're going through a hard time. In this short piece, youth producer Cailan Carpe...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:39
- Purchases: 1
What passes through our minds in the dark of night can often be scary, frightening, or even horrifying. In this short poem, youth commentator Abby ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:02:53
Have you ever been overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of germs that we encounter on a daily basis? In this short poem, Ashley Berglund shares her th...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 00:01:09
Problems. We all have problems. But when troubles become more than you can handle, what do you do? Run away? Disappear into the woods? How abo...
- Added: Sep 10, 2011
- Length: 00:02:52
- Purchases: 2
When solutions seem unreachable and problems unfixable, a walk in the rain can provide a launching point for reflection. At least, that’s what Chri...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Sep 10, 2011
- Length: 00:02:02
- Purchases: 1
An estimated 200,000 text messages are sent every second around the world. How many of those text messages are sent by kids sitting in schools? H...
- Added: Sep 10, 2011
- Length: 00:01:50
Now that August is upon us, many kids get excited for the upcoming school year. But for WTIP Youth Radio Project sophomore Owen Hoglund, the though...
- Added: Aug 13, 2011
- Length: 00:01:51
Mini-golf may appear easy, but it’s not. Sterling Anderson and Shawn Neuwirth of WTIP’s Youth Radio Project spent an afternoon at the local mini-go...
- Added: Aug 13, 2011
- Length: 00:02:27
Moving to a new town can be hard, but it was even harder for Sterling Anderson of WTIP’s Youth Radio Project. As an eleven-year old boy, leaving hi...
- Added: Aug 13, 2011
- Length: 00:02:15
While many northeastern Minnesota residents embrace the isolation and privacy of the region's wild country, local teenagers sometime struggle with ...
Bought by KAXE
- Added: Aug 13, 2011
- Length: 00:03:33
- Purchases: 1
Access to the internet access is a hot topic in rural northeastern Minnesota. Shawn Neuwirth of WTIP’s Youth Radio Project throws proverbial fuel o...
- Added: Aug 13, 2011
- Length: 00:02:07
