I recently chatted with some teenagers about a controversial ad that was aimed at their demographic. It was created by rapper Tyler The Creator for Mountain Dew. The students had some interesting things to say.

I saw this in the New York Times and had to share it with the community. It speaks to the core of what E4 Youth does. A portfolio that demonstrates your ability to have a vision and get things done is one of the most important things you can do for your education. In the end, employers want to know that you can get things done rather than your score on a test. What's even better, by doing what you love and demonstrating it in a portfolio,…

movie review: BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

quvenzhane wallis as hush puppy, dwight henry as wink, levy easterly as jean battiste

lucy alibar and benh zetlin wrote it.

directed by behn zetlin

with a sick father and a mother no where to be found, hush puppy has to be strong enough to hang in with the beasts. Through a storm and flood of her home, she proves to her dad if he has taught her right...and he has.

1hr and 30 minutes

pg13

all…

what i want to accomplish by the end of this year is, to get out of high school and move on with my life, and go to st eds for film and theater. film and theater are what make me want to become someone big, with out film and theater, i have no clue what i would want to do because those are the thing i love to do. Film brings out the best in me all the time and it just makes me really happy, theater i love because is really fun and you get to meet a lot of people. 

What i want to accomplish by the end of this year, is to get out of high school and move on with my life. I really wanna do film and theater at st eds, because its something that i really love to do. Film is something that i love to do because its a really fun thing to do along with theater. Film and Theater make me really happy because i love acting and making film.

I want to finish my personal project which is just going to be a commercial for a reality dating show. I want to focus a little bit more on graphic design and sharpen my skills on Photoshop and learn a little more illustrator. I also want to find another job.

What do i want to accomplish is to finsh the  Website and do more photoshop so i can learn more shortcuts and tools for photoshop and master it and maybe work on a little bit of Garys mod map makeing and game hud makeing. Build more computers for the community to help the equilibrium of the job finding market.

I want to get my GED, graduate and start my college classes early.

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It was really awesome to learn all the materiel, because you can use everything that you have learned out in the real world. Its a good profession to have, because it can make you a lot of money out in the tech world. I really like working with so many different experts, because it expands your mind and it can help you get a great job in the tech world. I think i will use this new knowledge really wisely, because its great knowledge and its something that most people don't have or want to…

It was a bit overwhelming to try and cram so much knowledge on such a neverending subject in 3 weeks especially since experts are coming up with new codes and its an evergrowing field. Its something that i definitely would love to pursue and thinking about researching on my own time once i get the internet connected at my house.  I have alot of things going on right now but i know i can make it a hobby to play around with messing with web pages. I learned some neat things and its…

it was mostly dry like everything is to learn that make money unless its fun like art and etc, but it was kinda cool to learn webdesign.

hmm.. working with experts i wouldn't say was hard it was just understanding  high lvl info for such  low lvled info that we  had  about webdesign.

Well ill use this basic knowledge of web and marketing tools i was given to make money and  learn more about for my own reason like making a website for my gaming company.

I think it was…

It took a lot of effort and passion for them to come to our school to and teach us about web design, because they could been doing something way better.

I could use is if I was going to go to school for web design, but I will never use it for the stuff I'm going to school for. 

It was ok I really didn't like it because I will never use this when I finish school.

it was mostly dry like everything is to learn that make money unless its  like art and etc, but it was kinda cool to learn webdesign.

hmm.. working with experts i wouldn't say was hard it was just understanding  high lvl info from a student stand point about webdesign.

Well ill use this basic knowledge of web and marketing tools i was given to make money and  learn more about for my own reason like making a website for my gaming company.

I think it was more beneficial…

I was a challenge for me but it was good as I got the hang of it,

*ATTENTION TEEN AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALES*



Beth Sepko Casting is seeking African American females ages 12-17 to audition to play members of a high school track team in the short film "A Chance to Place in All Races." Auditions are for principal roles and will be held in central Austin, TX on Saturday, March 2nd 2013. 



Some acting experience is preferred, but not required to audition. If cast for the…