Media
SUMMER 2010
August 21, 2010. Mikva Challenge Education Council's 2010 policy recommendations to incorporate 21st century technology in Chicago Public Schools are featured in a Chicago Sun Times article titled, " Students Lobby to Use Smart Phones in Classrooms," by Rosalind Rossi. The Sun Times article is also commented on by the blog chicagoist.com.
WINTER/SPRING 2010
March 1, 2010. Mikva Challenge's Out-of-School Time Council held a Youth Jobs Rally supporting the passage of the Youth Jobs Act of 2010. Several local and major media representatives came out to capture the event, including Univision, ABC-7, CBS, and WGN.
February 27, 2010. Mikva Challenge was one of three organizations featured on ABC-7's Heart & Soul show. The show highlighted how Mikva Challenge engages young people in political activism through our hands-on programs. An encore presentation of the show aired on March 13th, 2010 at 4:30pm. Click here to access the clip.
February 26, 2010. Mikva Challenge's Youth Safety Council's 2009 survey of high school students is cited in a Chicago Reporter article titled, "Teens Surveyed about Violence," by Amalia Oulahan. The story discusses violence and school transfers of Fenger High School students.
Mikva Challenge students began the New Year by putting on their election hats! They traveled around Chicago doing campaign work in preparation for the 2010 primaries, and were out in droves on Election Day – running the polls as election judges and doing last minute campaign work for their candidates. Their elections activities generated some strong media hits, for example:
- February 6, 2010. At the elections wrap event February 6th, students debriefed about their political work. Clips from their wrap up event appeared on local ABC7 News and Univision. Click here for a quick summary of the ABC7 news clip.
- February 2, 2010. Part of the Election Day coverage, Mikva students - James Alford (Kenwood), John Williams (Social Justice), Neha Surender (Amundsen) and Luz Chico (Hubbard) - appeared on Vocalo 89.5FM, WBBM 96.3FM and WBEZ 91.5FM's '848' program to discuss Obama-mania, the 2010 primary elections, and what’s it’s like working on political campaigns and serving as student judges. Click here to hear what they had to say on Vocalo 89.5FM.
- January 28, 2010. Leor Galil from Medill wrote about Mikva’s Election Club students in his piece “Too_Young_To_Vote,_Old_Enough_To_Talk_Politics.”
- January 27, 2010. Mikva’s Election Club students appeared on CAN TV Channel 21 to discuss the 2010 primaries, their experiences as election judges, and the candidates running for the Senatorial, Gubernatorial, and Cook County Board President seats.
- January 23, 2010. ABC7 News, FOX News Chicago, and Univision (national) spotlighted Mikva students in their reporting of Mikva Challenge’s 10 years of successfully running the Student Judge program.
January 2010. Catalyst Chicago examined after school programs in Chicago in their January 2010 issue of their magazine and on their website. Both Mikva Challenge and our Out-of-School Time Council were spotlighted in these two articles:
- "Making_After_School_Cool," by Rebecca Harris
- "Not Just An Add On," by Sarah Karp (Catalyst In Depth, Winter 2010)
