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The Digital Newsroom program supports youth in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in developing a strong voice in the community through their creation of an on-line and print community news journal.

Hampshire College students, faculty and Digital Design Center staff teach Holyoke youth a variety of marketable skills related to the creation of the news journal: website design, journalism, graphic arts, photography and general computer and community leadership skills.

The teens, once trained, act as community leaders and reach out to other community youth for ideas, writing and art submissions for the journal. They also work with youth in other programs to create web pages for their group that then will also be linked to the news journal.

Holyoke teen learns HTML

Thanks to the Hampshire College
Digital Design Center for critical and technical instruction and support, made possible in part due to funds from the Lemelson Foundation.

Digital Newsroom works with ACCESS Holyoke Partnership and receives DOE grant to create and improve nine community technology centers!

Visit the teens' first web site!

www.teenholyoke.com

Partners

Hampshire College

El Arco Iris

Greater Holyoke YMCA

Hampshire College student leads design workshop

Made Possible by WorldCom, Campus Compact, and Brown University Partnership

WorldCom's Campus Compact: Making a Civic Investment program funds service learning projects around the United States aimed at addressing the "digital divide."

Hampshire College, in partnership with El Arco Iris Youth & Arts Center (a program of Nueva Esperanza, Inc.), was awarded a two-year grant for this program, which began in Sept., 2000.