EECOM's Teen Environmental Media Network (TEMN) provides hands-on communications, science and environmental journalism training to high school students in the San Francisco Bay Area. We train youth in schools throughout the Bay area and we also work with youth in after school programs and in summer programs. If you are a high school student who would like to be considered for the program, or an educator interested in introducing your program into the classroom please contact EECOM.

Since its inception, over 200 youth have participated in TEMN, developing and practicing skills including researching, interviewing, writing, digital audio editing, and voicing. In addition to these valuable communication skills, TEMN participants build confidence and workplace experience.

Teen Environmental Media Network training develops the proficiencies essential to a variety of career paths, including journalism, science, broadcast media, technology, Internet publications, public relations and education. We espouse project-based learning and use a model similar to what a radio station might use -- programs produced have to meet time constraints, deadlines and format guidelines. They have to include technical quality, language that communicates well to an audience and be consistent with the standards of the broadcast media. Each student who participates in the TEMN must meet these objectives.

What do the students do?

• EarthScope Radio — Two-minute radio reports produced by our interns air weekly on KALW (91.7 FM), which is owned and operated by the San Francisco Unified School District. To listen to current EarthScope programs, visit TEMN on the Air.
   
• Marin EarthScope: Teens are also writing articles for Marin EarthScope which is published bi-monthly in MarinScope Community Newspapers. To read their articles, visit TEMN in Print.
   
• Many stories produced by our teens have been featured elsewhere including on our EarthNews national radio program, the Environmental News Network (ENN.com) and in California ReLeaf's quarterly newsletter.