Students at MEDIAK receive training in state-of-the-art multimedia production and have opportunities to develop leadership skills, contribute to their community and their culture, and to work side by side with media professionals. The informal, experiential educational model on which MEDIAK is built, along with the empowering effect of the position behind the lens, microphone, or pen, has proven particularly effective with our youth. MEDIAK students built important high-tech job skills while learning to articulate their concerns or interests in a constructive manner. They experience for themselves the power of their voice. Under the direction of three youth-run media clubs, MEDIAK students produce movies and documentary films, a weekly live radio show, news reports and public service announcements, a project website (www.mediak.net), and a quarterly magazine called Alaska Aloud. Media activities will be supplemented with career activities to ensure that our students leave our program with the knowledge, skills and behaviors necessary to be successful in whatever path they choose after high school.

Some of the activities available through MEDIAK are:

• Media workshops that teach everything from pre-production planning through to editing and presenting finished projects

• Project-based learning opportunities that include participation in weekly live radio broadcasts, creation and screening of original short films, and the publication of Alaska Aloud, a unique magazine by and for Alaska Native youth.

• Summer Media Institute where students can spend from one to four weeks developing their media skills while earning college credit and gaining exposure to Native media professionals

• Internships at local media workplaces

• Career activities ranging from individual interest and aptitude assessments to job skills workshops

• Opportunities to travel “on assignment” around Alaska and the US

• Job shadows with adult mentors at media worksites

• Opportunities to be connected with a student mentor or to be a student mentor themselves

Interested students should call or stop-by the MEDIAK office or visit www.mediak.net for more information and a program enrollment form.

MEDIAK

3600 San Jeronimo Drive, Anchorage, AK 99508

email: ess@citci.com