Youth Opportunities

Partner offerings

Friday, March 21: Tour of Monkey Boy Productions 
If you’re not familiar with MBP, they are a multi-medium production company that creates puppets, props, creatures, costumes and practical effects and original content for film, television and stage– often for children’s media (and Saturday Night Live).
Join us on March 21- 
11:00am-12:00pm tour of production company
12:00pm-1:00pm conversation with owners, Marc Petrosino and Michael Latini.
The company is located in Hatfield, PA, about 45 minutes to one-hour outside Philly, near Lansdale and North Wales.
THERE ARE ONLY 8 SLOTS REMAINING FOR THIS EVENT. They have a strict limit on attendees.
If you are interested in attending, please send an email to me ASAP. The first eight emails I receive will be added to the attendee list!

Friday, April 4 Temple University Klein College will hold the 7th Annual Children’s Media Career Symposium from 3:00pm-5:30pm. 

This event is consistently an incredible opportunity for college students, recent grads, and early career professionals interested in a career focused on media for children and youth.

Attend if you are interested in producing, writing , directing, development, conducting research, casting, marketing– for YouTube, streaming networks, educational production companies, video game companies, media networks, research think tanks, etc.

Speakers are confirmed from Nickelodeon, Dubit International, Twin Cities Public Television, WHYY Philadelphia Children’s Media, Fablevision, and Danny Joe’s Treehouse YouTube channel. More speakers still to be added.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.
Advance registration required.

Details and registration here: https://centermil.org/2025/01/28/childrens-media-career-symposium-2025/

 

WHYY

WHYY’s Media Labs program is a media instruction partnership with the School District of Philadelphia and other schools located in the Philadelphia region, South Jersey and Delaware. Over the course of eight years, WHYY has engaged has engaged over 20,000 students in over 65 schools throughout Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey in hands-on media arts training through the program. Now WHYY is connecting Media Labs students to jobs in the industry through the Pathways to Media Careers program.  Link

 

February 18th and will be held at WHYY. WHYY is located in Old City in Philadelphia, a short walk from the Patco.

Spring 2025 Classes
Documentary Filmmaking: Mondays & Wednesdays, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Narrative Filmmaking: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Students can register for both classes at whyy.org/teens.