On a slightly different note, what do people think about including some of this specific info in our BC recruitment lit (i.e. you’ll be running workshops for kids on topics including x, y, and z in area community orgs)? I’m looking at Chris W.’s recruitment message right now and it doesn’t give much of an idea of what students will actually be doing (aside from generally helping youth with tech). I think a bit more specificity might help sell BC with undergrads once we get our curriculum down, but that might not happen fast enough now that I think about it. Maybe something to think about for the future if that’s the case.

I also talked about how BC interns help build capacity in a partnership posting today. How cool would it be to provide a couple weeks of video production training to a few BC interns and let them go work with youth at another organization to create PSA’s, photo essays, or street interviews. At the same time, you provide the organization with $1000 to $1500 worth of video production equipment and in return they promise to produce a few pieces of youth media a year.

Not sure if we’ll be ready to use all the BC interns this winter or spring though. Full implementation may happen fall 09.