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Can creating something for others help young people build confidence in their own ideas?

That question inspired a partnership between foundry10 and Voyager Middle School, where students designed and performed an original puppet play for more than 500 elementary students. The performance explored friendship, empathy, and navigating big feelings.

Read how this youth-led project helped students build creative confidence and explore what it means to create with purpose: https://ow.ly/H64050ZiPc3

Most U.S. teens are on social media every day, but few are receiving consistent, comprehensive education about how it shapes their lives.

foundry10's Digital Technologies and Education Lab, in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago, surveyed 1,027 high school students nationwide to understand what social media guidance teens are actually getting, who is delivering it, and what they wish were different.
Here is what the data shows:
📌 Only 1 in 5 teens discuss social media with parents on a weekly basis.
📌 72% of teens learned about dangers like cyberbullying, but only 57% learned about benefits.
📌Teens from lower-income households were less likely to receive instruction from teachers.

Read the full white paper: https://ow.ly/wXrV50Z6m0m