Pittsburgh Youth Radio Corps

Students from Gateway High School open up with some personal anecdotes.

Look for six new SLB StoryBoxes featuring the voices of sixty children expressing their hopes for 2011 at First Night Pittsburgh. Created in conjunction with The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Hear Me project, these StoryBoxes will be installed at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Arts Education Center, 805/807 Liberty Avenue, Downtown from New Year’s Eve through late January.

Students at Manchester Academic Charter School reflect on holiday traditions such as that sweet, sweet potato pie, Christmas light decorations, and family.

These original compositions were written by the Pittsburgh Allegheny K-5 Young Writers’ Club. Participating 3rd, 4th and 5th graders met after school on a regular basis, wrote and polished their projects, and recorded them in their classroom using portable recorders.…

Stephanie Bodner and Emily Morrison, third grade students at Reserve Primary in Shaler, along with their teacher Kim Young, organizer Stephen Bodner and musician Slim Forsythe, join us to discuss the Caring Program for Children, which enables students to raise funds to help provide healthcare coverage and immunizations for children from low income families.

Allegheny Voices is a project that was born of a chance meeting and a casual conversation about Andy Warhol’s love of ordinary discourse. Armed with a tape recorder, Andy would record for posterity, the type of conversation that most of …

Listen and learn as Pittsburgh Manchester PreK-8 4th and 5th graders share their expertise, from how to form tackle too how to make hot wings! This project was made possible with generous support from The Buhl Foundation.

SLB visited the Hill House and captured stories from teenagers about their neighborhoods.

Breanna Evans-Potter and Chalese Floyd from the Heinz Endowments Youth Philanthropy Program join us to discuss their experiences producing environmentally themed radio broadcasts at The Saturday Light Brigade.

This year SLB had the exciting experience of instructing a “Storytelling Through Technology” class at University Prep-Pittsburgh Milliones. Students gained experience with microphones, portable recording devices, and audio editing software. They also learned the art of the interview as well as how audio can be used as a tool to further their understanding of the world around them. During the year students used these acquired skills to interview their teachers and create professional radio pieces.