Youth TV team covers Energy Expo - “Kids making media” plans to cover political conventions
by Mike McKibbin - Citizen Telegram Editor
Many of the energy companies at the April 30 Energy Expo in Rifle faced a TV camera and microphone, but it wasn’t a Grand Junction or Denver TV station reporter asking them questions.
This crew was made up of young people, or “kids making media,” according to Kyle Drummer with True Media Foundation.
“It’s totally uncensored by adults,” she said as a team of youngsters quizzed an official with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The agency parked its mobile Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Education on Wheels, or RnE2EW, van in front of the indoor arena at the Garbled County Fairgrounds during the expo.
True Media Foundation is a Carbondale-based organization that mentors youngsters from 13-18 years of age on how to express themselves in positive ways, while learning what it takes to convey their messages professionally and with wide-ranged appeal for broadcast regionally or nationally.
“They do their own questions, their own editing and they upload it from the truck by satellite,” Drummer said.
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