Tracks

Listed below are the 3-day Tracks that members participated in during the Teen Summit. Members also completed one-day Workshops.

Check out the Teens Around the World Website created in Web Site Design Track at the 2008 Teen Summit. Don't miss the People and Tour Photo Albums.

This video was created in the Wall Animation track:

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Track Name	Description
Animate your Life	Create a 3D world with your peers and interact in the environment like never before. In this track, you will use Endorphin, a 3D animation tool, to make lifelike characters and build your dream world. Endorphin has been used in many movies and video games, so you'll be on the cutting edge in this brand new virtual universe.
Culture Jamming: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Media Messages	In this track, participants will explore the world as told through advertising and then work together to re-imagine and recreate physical and digital media spaces. Through discussion and hands-on activities, we will identify, challenge, and reconstruct advertising representations of people, places, things, and ideas.
Design Squad: Engineering Your Life	Discover the engineer inside you and get inspired! Participants in this track will learn about the many facets of engineering, apply some basic engineering concepts to solve everyday problems, and work collaboratively to solve engineering challenges.
Digital Storytelling	Stories are a tremendous resource for communities and individuals. Digital storytelling can bridge the gap between existing stories and digital expression and distribution. Through the creation of digital stories, youth can reflect upon, learn from, document, and share the stories of their lives. Participants in this track will work with others to create a brief (3-4 minute) multimedia narrative combining voice, imagery, and video.
Magazine Making	What’s it like to be a part of a magazine team? This track will look at the creative design side as well as the journalism and photography elements. We will work in teams to create feature stories which will be compiled to create a Teen Summit Magazine.
Putting Yourself on the Map	Locate all the Clubhouses in Google Maps and Google Earth. Then learn how to add multimedia layers that reflect the diversity of our Network. Design an icon to identify the Computer Clubhouses in Google Earth. Finally, program tours to fly from one Clubhouse to the next.
Ready, Set, Action! Documenting the Teen Summit	Participants in this track will document the Teen Summit and learn to create a professional video including storyboarding, capturing footage, editing, interviewing, lighting, graphics and scoring.
Renovate Rooms to React to their Residents	In this track, participants will examine how people interact with things in a room and explore ways to change how people experience a space. After exploring how places we visit normally interact with visitors, we will brainstorm and reinvent those interactions in our track's room. We will work together to turn a "normal" room into a reactive environment by outfitting furniture and fixtures with sensors.
RPGMaker	Participants in this track will create a member-created role playing game with a Teen Summit plot of their choice. At the end of the Summit, the finished game can be taken home and will be available on the Clubhouse Village, as well.
Teen Summit '08 Web Site Design	Create a Teen Summit website hosted on the Village. Share with the rest of the Intel Computer Clubhouse Network and the rest of the world what it is like to be at the Teen Summit in Boston. Collaborate with other groups to collect photos, graphics, video and audio to use on the website.
Voices, Power, Action: Organizing Our Communities	Is there a problem in your school, neighborhood, city or country that you want to address? Learn how to name problems, cut them into issues, create winnable campaigns, and identify positive solutions for change. When working together with others using tools and tactics, we can impact our environment.
Wall Animation	Participants in this track will design and execute a wall-drawn animation project. We will utilize hand-drawing, photography, editing, and music and sound design to create a finished product. The end result will be comprised of simplified line drawings of evolving/changing imagery drawn across blank walls and chalk/whiteboards on campus, giving the sense that the character/imagery is traveling through real exterior and interior space.

Workshops

Workshop Name	Description
Adobe Youth Voices: Clubhouse Staff Training	For current AYV sites only: Share experiences to date and build on bestpractice.
Animate your Videos	Learn how to combine Flash animations with your favorite videos! We will convert videos into flv files that can be imported into Flash. Once in Flash, we will add animations that complement the video or react to it.
Creating a Business from a Good Idea	Participants in this workshop will explore how interests in technology and business can be combined and learn some basic business fundamentals that they will use to craft a business model for a unique service or product of their own. Participants will start thinking critically like entrepreneurs - analyzing the feasibility of their businesses, considering the demand for their product or service, and creating a clever marketing message. In the last stage of the workshop, Members will create a basic website advertising their business and will learn how the internet can be used as a valuable platform for large corporations and small businesses alike.
Engineering All Around Us	This workshop will explore engineering and how design and science affect our everyday lives and activities. Participants will learn basic principles of engineering and put them into practice by designing simple structures.
Green Screen Movie Making	Participants will explore movie-making in a new way, through the use of green screen technology. They will learn how to create special effects with the use of Clubhouse tools and creativity.
Hyperscore	Learn to make music outside of the studio. Compose music by drawing! Create ringtones and use them in your cell phone! Share your music creations with your friends!
Mixed-Media Montage: Scratching Teen Summit Sights and Sounds	In this workshop, participants will capture images of Teen Summit action and bring them to life with sounds recorded from around Northeastern's campus. The participants will make soundtracks for a collection of photo images using speech, sound bytes, songs, and other sounds mixed together.
Personalizing Pathways to our Places	In this workshop, we will come up with ways to welcome people to our personal spaces with personality. We will go beyond what city-dwellers might have come to expect from entrances: doorbells buzzing or chiming, doorways beeping or ringing alarms, and porches with automatic lights. Participants will have the ability to play their own melodies, trigger light sequences, or make things move around depending on how they sense people entering their space.
Puzzles and Patterns	Stretch your brain as we play games, search for patterns, and solve puzzles.
Rockets and Robotics	Through robotics and programming, participants will be able to understand the basic principles of physics that make movement possible.
SaYes2Poetry: Lyric Writing	The SaYes2Poetry workshop is designed to attract and encourage novice writers, poets and authors to participate and share original spoken word.
Seeing the Unseen in Urban Areas	This workshop will redefine what it means for participants to experience a metropolitan area. Participants will have a toolkit that allows them to represent an area's unseen elements such as temperature, carbon dioxide level, or ambient noise volume with easily noticeable signals such as sound, wind, color, or vibration.
Stop Action Animation	Using stop action animation techniques, this group will create a movie or series of movies from start to finish. They will begin with a concept, develop a storyboard, and sculpt clay figures to design a movie to reflect their vision.
The Sole of Sneaker Design	Get a crash course in the field of sneaker design from a leading expert and designer at NIKE. Learn about the shoe design industry, the design process (including the opportunity to design your own shoes) and how to pursue a career in shoe design.