Youth Projects of the Digital Story Resource Center

The Digital Story Resource Center promotes positive uses of computers and Internet for youth. Through activities in schools, the center helps children express their ideas and develop communication skills.

Digital Storytelling programs also inspire youth to take an active role in community development and provide useful tools for youth as future civic leaders. Projects to emerge from youth groups in the program have included Students for a Better Houston (betterhouston.com) and Haiti Counts-Help Haiti (haiticounts.org).

Digital storytelling programs, sometimes presented as "Media Makers" in after-school programs or offered through technology classes during the school day, are actively serving 200 students in Houston and Harris County schools, including Deady Middle School, Southmore Intermediate and others.

Activities in schools are facilitated by college interns from University of Houston and Texas Southern University. Thanks to Houston Young Lawyers Foundation for their support of this valuable project and to the University of Houston College of Education CITE Lab for additional support and curriculum development. Support for related programs has been provided by the Children's Museum of Houston and US Department of Justice-Houston Office.

Please contact us to learn more about establishing programs in schools and providing additional support for college interns.

Houston Institute for Culture is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts and many others.