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Media WORKS Enterprise® is a youth development program that builds technological fluency and sustainable employability by integrating design, creativity, collaboration, and community service in a new media design learning company.
Supported by a professional teaching
and design staff, Media WORKS Enterprise (MWE) creates multimedia, Internet, and
graphic designs for clients who work in the employability, government, or non-profit market segments. Youth develop
skills by going through a graduated series of
projects that allow them to work as members of new media design teams,
mentor peers, help re-train adults, and eventually seek out and succeed
in related jobs or continue their education. Their membership in Opportunity
WORKS®, a life-long career management system, facilitates their navigation
in the dynamic 21st Century work environment. See an animated
presentation of the Media WORKS Enterprise program.
Media WORKS bridges the Digital Divide in several ways:
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Media WORKS Enterprise
develops technological fluency and sustainable employability among it's
participants by providing a state of the art computing environment within
the context of a learn-by-working curriculum. Participants, or “Interns”,
are hired by the studio then develop a set of commonly shared essential
skills in design, applied computing, basic employability, and work collaboration.
The Interns form the core group of designers who are guided by a Head
Designer, Head Educator, Information Systems Manager and Opportunity Works®
Career Plan Manager.
- As a youth
development learning program Media WORKS Enterprise provides an academic program
that promotes creative problem solving and foster good social relationships.
- As a community
service organization Media WORKS Enterprise offers low cost design service
to non-profit, small businesses and other community organizations with
limited purchasing power.
- As a technology
learning environment Media WORKS Enterprise provides novices a soft entry into
a digital environment by integrating the simplicity, tactile qualities,
and responsiveness of visual, material-based art creation with the project-oriented,
disciplined creativity of visual design.
- As a visual
design studio Media WORKS Enterprise produces concrete products, such as posters,
identity programs, websites, and video, in response to real-life client
needs, with all the organizational, marketing, job role distribution
and professional expectations of a commercial enterprise.
- As an after
school program Media WORKS Enterprise makes a supervised state-of-the-art computing
environment and material arts exploration available to community youth.
- As a job retraining
center Media WORKS Enterprise provides occupational skills development with
professionally guided hands-on digital design experience with peer-to-peer
support using industry standard equipment and software.
- As a community
technology center Media WORKS Enterprise provides hands-on training in management
of information systems, software and hardware maintenance, networks,
server management, and technical support.
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Next - Building Sustainable Employability
or download the entire Synopsis in an Adobe Acrobat PDF file (423K)
See an animated presentation of the Media WORKS Enterprise program.
For more information review http://imediaworks.org
, call the Training and Development Corporation at 1-800-244-3598, or
email Information.
Download
the Synopsis in Adobe Acrobat Format (PDF)