KIDS FIRST! Youth Film Critics Team
A national program where kids and teens who love film join KIDS FIRST!'s film critics team to write reviews and produce on-camera video critiques of children's and family entertainment, with their reviews and ratings published on the organization's platforms.
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News Decoder
A global nonprofit journalism education platform where students draft, revise, and publish news and opinion stories with mentorship from professional journalists through its 'Get Published' pipeline, plus a 'Youth Voices' section showcasing student work and contest winners.
CFI Education Young Curators Program (Mill Valley Film Festival)
A free, four-week online program for grades 9-12 held on Fridays in July, where students watch short films from around the world, engage in critical discussion, and collaborate as a jury to curate the youth-produced shorts program presented at the Mill Valley Film Festival.
JTA Teen Journalism Fellowship
A free, remote fellowship from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency for U.S. Jewish high schoolers ages 15-18 to pitch and report a 750-1,000 word article examining their community through a Jewish teen lens, with training and virtual mentorship meetings.
Student Voice Journalism Fellowship
A free, yearlong national fellowship for U.S. high schoolers -- especially those without access to a school newspaper -- to build education-justice reporting skills across print, podcast, photo essay, and video formats, with published work appearing in Student Voice's Schooled magazine and outlets like The Washington Post and Teen Vogue.
Exoplanet Watch (NASA)
A NASA citizen-science project in which volunteers, including complete beginners, observe exoplanet transits with their own telescope or request free archival/robotic-telescope data, analyze the resulting light curves with NASA's free EXOTIC software, and submit results to a shared scientific database.