Engaging Youth Through Radio Project

Series produced by WTIP

Caption: WTIP Youth Radio Project, Credit: Carah Thomas
Image by: Carah Thomas 
WTIP Youth Radio Project 

WTIP's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project features the work of YRP students. These short 3- to 5-minute features are by youth for youth, and explore issues and themes with a youth focus.

WTIP’s "Engaging Youth through Radio" project provides local youth with enhanced opportunities for self-exploration, self-expression, and community involvement by promoting their unique perspectives and highlighting their valuable contributions. This series features these students and the audio documentaries they've created that reflect the concerns and opinions of the local youth culture.


152 Pieces

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Will today's youth be more successful than their parents? Michaela Peterson of WTIP North Shore Community Radio’s Youth Radio Project isn’t sure t...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:54
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Recently, you have probably heard a lot about how today's youth will not have as good of a life as their parents did. For Sterling Anderson of WTIP...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
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In America, we have many different traditions. Thanksgiving, the Olympics, the Superbowl. But how do we know when traditions should end? WTIP youth...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
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The tradition of Christmas isn’t something you think about much during the summertime. However, in this commentary, youth producer Michaela Peterso...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:03
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Is internet addiction a real thing? Are young people too plugged in? Sterling Anderson of WTIP's Youth Radio Project considers these questions in t...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
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We all know what success is, but how do you define failure? If you miss reaching a goal – does that mean you failed? Audrey Summers of WTIP's Youth...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:12
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What does it mean to be successful? In this vox pop, WTIP Youth Radio Project producers Sterling Anderson and Shawn Neuwirth asked people what succ...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
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Are today's young people too plugged in? Is the wide variety of technology at their fingertips detrimental to their schoolwork/driving/futures? WTI...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Cedar Adams is a junior at Cook County High School in Grand Marais, Minnesota, and a member of WTIP North Shore Community Radio's Youth Radio Proje...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
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Why would you want to run during the hot summer months? Audrey Summers of the WTIP Youth Radio Project does just that. What it is that drives her? ...

Bought by KSKA


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Audrey Summers of WTIP North Shore Community Radio's Youth Radio Project knows who she is, but what does that mean? What if she changed? In this co...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Shawn & Sterling, Credit: Kelly Schoenfelder
Why spend an entire summer writing audio commentaries and interviewing strangers? In this commentary from WTIP Youth Radio Project producers Shawn ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:22
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Relay for Life is an event helps to raise funds for the fight against cancer. Like many things in life, no one can fight cancer alone – it takes ma...

  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
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Paul Samuelson graduated from high school in northeastern Minnesota in 2010. He joined the military, and just recently returned from a tour in Iraq...

  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 12:09
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How do we decide to do something for the first time? Audrey Summers, of WTIP's "Engaging Youth Through Radio" project, considers this question in t...

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
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Getting a pet is a “first” that most kids remember. Often times, what a kid expects when getting a pet is far from the reality. Shawn Neuwirth, of ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 1
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In this short poem, WTIP youth producer Zack Anderson conveys the flowing together or the ideas, thoughts and sounds that converge in his head as h...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: :37
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Sometimes, just sometimes, words don't do justice. In this short poem, youth producer Michaela Peterson tells a story that reflects these rare mome...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
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Tourists, boyfriends, throat aches. All of these things have left Kaylee Cronberg simply stressed. In this short poem, she recounts her day and sha...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:04
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In the last hour of the school day, youth producer Emily Terrill's thoughts float out of the window, over the trees, across the roads, to home. In ...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:10