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4-H youth learn life skills while also learning what it takes to be good citizens and communicators so that we can become contributing adults within our communities.

This year, local 4-H members would like to get together and compile photographs taken by several 4-H members and graphics into a hard bound book that will be utilized as a marketing communication piece to further the 4-H program in San Bernardino County. We want to learn how to produce top-quality photographs and graphic pieces while exploring and capturing our creativity. We feel that this is a unique way of enhancing our own skills while at the same time producing a product that will be used for years to come. This project requires team-work, critical thinking, and partnering with a diverse group of peers.

In summary, the memory book was created to show youth in action emphasizing citizenship and leadership. The book will be presented to youth organizations and elementary schools in order to recruit new members and change the stereotypes of 4-H. Best of all, 4-H members learn journalism skills while researching and developing the book!

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I am the Editor-In-Chief of The Wake Student Magazine, at the University of Minnesota.

The Wake is an alternative, progressive campus publication that strives to stimulate intelligent discussion of the issues that should matter to students. This year I started a new section called "Mind's Eye." This section is aimed at educating students about relevant science-related topics such as global warming, conservation and sex education.

From The Wake's Manifesto:

"Boredom, rivers, coffee shops, apathy, discrimination, park benches, Greeks, stoners, athletes, snobs, Abercrombie, Ecko, transit, homeless, police, construction, music, art, alcohol; all of this and more can be found in and around our U. To put it simply, there is a lot going on here. So much, in fact, that it’s hard to understand how one newspaper could possibly deal with all of it…or two, or five, or thirteen.

Our generation has quite a bit on our plate right now. Everyday we are confronted with frightening terrorist threats, a war nobody seems to understand and an increasingly doom-laden situation in the Middle East. Disturbing as all this is, even more frightening is a generation that does not seem to care.

There’s nothing certain when it comes to how well this newspaper will do. If we get advertising, then we’ll be able to survive. If we don’t get advertising, then we’ll keep publishing until we can’t anymore. In either case, we are going to make the most of this and try to make an impact on campus, conversation and life at the U."

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The most accurate and comprehensive description of The Diet Newsletter is the newsletter itself, www.gallerydiet.com A few hopes and thoughts on the Diet newsletter, The Diet newsletter is an online publication appearing once monthly which creates a local source for dialogue relevant to the national and international arts community. While focused in Miami, the Diet newsletter has woven perspectives from outside the city into the local dialogue, broadening the scope of discussion surrounding visual art work in South Florida. The newsletter will be divided into four parts; columns, reviews, postings, and conversations. Columns will be written from an international perspective, they should serve as portals for the newsletter’s audience to the international occurrences of the contemporary art world, they should give insight and connect the readers with events, places, and shows that they would not have discovered without the columnist. Reviews should occur at varying levels; locally, internationally, and nationally. They should include reviews of shows, lectures, panels, performances and the like. The only constraint for the reviews is that they must be reviews, by this I mean criticism, praise, an argument for or against something that the writer was inspired by, be that a negative or positive inspiration. The writer’s opinion must be felt in this category. It is imperative for the reader to feel the author’s stance. Postings is a place for Diet contributors (editors, and writers) to post essays, words, books, films, music, any outside source material that they should feel relates to that particular issue of the newsletter. This is a place where the reader can expand his or her point of reference, understand where the writers are coming from and have a chance to learn directly from the source. Conversations will be a place where artists, dealers, curators, thinkers, or any active participant in the art world can speak to one another on a predetermined date, record the dialogue and publish it, so that the reader may sit, as in John Favreou’s Dinner for Five at an imaginary round table of sorts with people they may admire, despise, or not even know and derive information from both sides of the conversation.

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Collective Lens is an online photography publication that promotes awareness and education of both domestic and international humanitarian needs through photography and visual media. We will be accepting photographic essays beginning March 15th thru April 16th. Photographic essays should include 8 to 15 photos that depict a social or humanitarian concern relevant to today’s society. Accepted essays will serve as an educational tool to intrigue the public and encourage individuals to become involved. Amateur photographers are encouraged to submit. Please see the submission guidelines at www.collectivelens.com
for more details.