Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards on the audio category.

A short PSA featuring words of wisdom from young people to young people.

Adobe Youth Voices program in Actin in London through the partnership with Eastside Educational Trust

"A Voice for Orphans" is a self portrait video documentary in which a sixteen year old orphan called Kyomugisha Christine recounts her experiences as an orphan living alone. The Adobe Youth Voices learners of PMM Girls School created the media to highlight challenges faced by orphans, how they deal with these challenges and also to show that EVEN orphans live with dreams...

H.B. Beal Secondary School has been the major technical secondary school in London, Ontario, Canada since the year 1912. In that time, Beal has established itself as being at the forefront of practical, hands-on education. The school has always welcomed those eager to learn, even those whom other schools discarded. For over 50 years, Beal has also been the leader in Broadcasting Education across Southwestern Ontario. However, recently, due to limited funding and an economy that is getting poorer and poorer, Beal’s broadcasting program, “BTV”, is falling behind. In order to prevent this, BTV is teaming up with local news station, Rogers TV, to create a show for youth, about youth, and produced by youth. This is quite exciting for the students enrolled in the program, but with funds being at their current level, the show seems due to fail. Both those at Beal and those at Rogers TV believe that this youth-oriented television show is vital to improving conditions in a city with a 9.1% unemployed rate (2% more than the Canadian average). At Beal, approximately 25% of the student population is high-risk, and almost 5% of the students live on their own (the highest across the school board). With tv segments that will talk about youth issues such as drug abuse, food preparation, and mental health issues, we believe that we can be a great aid to these students as well as youth all across the viewership.

Be The Change started from a simple class poem. After researching issues that face our world the students got together and created a group poem on the topic of change. Each line from the poem is the thoughts and ideas of different students.As the production of the video went underway the students felt that their voices much like the poem should overlap to drive the message home about change and how we all must work together to create a bigger picture.

A fast-pace short film in which the filmmakers hope to engage more people to participate in our democratic process.

Adobe Youth Voices Film Camps provides to youth the opportunity to create high-quality youth-produced media created to address critical issues and effect positive change. Students gathered at the Adobe Headquarters in San Jose, CA to learn how to take their filmmaking to the next level.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.

The Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards is an international juried media competition that recognizes projects that best illustrate the program’s ‘Create with Purpose’ philosophy. On June 18, 2012, we recognized extraordinary youth media by announcing the winners of the first ever Adobe Youth Voices Aspire Awards online to a global audience. Now we are taking the celebration to the next level by introducing a live event series called Aspire Awards Prize Patrols.