Oct
14
New Youth-Hosted Radio Show
Filed Under Lab Stories, Radio Show
We are excited to announce The Lab Youth Radio Show, a new, student-driven radio podcast that is available on The Lab’s website. This show is being developed, produced and co-hosted by two high school students. They will be guided and supported by Lab intern, Kama Johnson & Lab mentor, Glo Martin. The LAB Youth Radio Show will be a forum for youth and their mentors to discuss topics, such as:
- Exploring career choices after high school
- Developing leadership skills for young adults
- Taking steps to prepare for college
- Getting involved in the community through volunteerism
- Positive things for teenagers to do for fun
- Interviews with local community leaders, mentors, performers and artists
- And Much More!
One of the most exciting aspects of this radio show is that it will provide an additional forum for youth who are involved at The Lab to showcase their talents and success stories with a wider audience.
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As they participate in the production of the show from start to finish, the youth co-hosts will be developing their organizational, research, planning and teamwork skills, increasing their access to and comfort with technology, and practicing interviewing and public speaking skills useful in many arenas in school, work and life. The youth co-hosts will meet weekly with mentors Glo and Kama to brainstorm, research and discuss ideas for upcoming show topics as well as record, edit and upload the radio podcast to The Lab’s website.
The first Youth Radio Show Podcast featuring our youth co-hosts will be available on our website on Friday, October 30th. Stay Tuned!
The debut podcast hosted by Glo and Kama, features an interview with Lab founder and coordinator, Mary Tinucci. On this debut show, Tinucci visits with Glo and Kama about the Lab’s origins and development, as well as her vision for this new Radio Show aspect of service for students at The Lab
- click here to listen. The first Youth Radio Show Podcast featuring youth co-hosts (R & M) will be available on our website on Friday, October 30th. Stay Tuned! On M.’s first day in the studio, the atmosphere is laid back, cool and quiet. He and Lab intern, Kama, sit down to an informal lunch of sloppy joes, chips and peanut-butter and jelly sandwiches on sliced bread as thick as hockey pucks. Even though this is their first meeting, it seems like they have been working together for months. They slap hands like old friends and begin trading ideas for what will soon become their first radio podcast.
“I’m my own person,” explained M. “The only people that inspire me are my mom and my dad. It’s hard to get inspired by rap artists these days, because all they talk about is killing and guns.”
“I’m not nervous about being on-air,” M. said. “I love talking and asking questions.” Neither M., R. or Kama have previous experience hosting a radio show or being on the radio for that matter, but they are both excited about the opportunity. Glo has experience hosting a tv show back in the day called “Don’t Believe the Hype”, as well as extensive performance experience, and confidently takes the driver’s seat for now at the keyboard, directing the recording and editing process. Over time, this will be a shared duty among the youth co-hosts.
“This radio show is important because it’s a way of showing progress to students who are listening as well as participating,” said Kama. “The show will give students an opportunity to do something that is creative and meaningful to them.”
“I’m my own person,” explained M. “The only people that inspire me are my mom and my dad. It’s hard to get inspired by rap artists these days, because all they talk about is killing and guns.” M. said he looks forward to using the student-driven podcast as a means for influencing kids his age to do the right thing.
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