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City Kidz World holds a Writing Summer Camp
Local Magazine Holds Youth Writer and Publishing Camp Summer 2010 for Central Jersey students
Saturday, April 3, 2010 12:06 PM EDT
By Melissa Edwards
Local children’s magazine, City Kidz World, is holding an 8-week writing and publishing summer camp for children ages 10 to 18 in Skillman, N.J., during summer 2010. Classes will be divided by age.
Young writers and publishers may attend two days a week between May 24 through July 9 or June 28 through August 16. Sessions will be an hour and a half and students will work on nonfiction journalistic writing, fiction, desktop publishing programs, digital photography, or book building. The tuition is only $220 for what will be 16 sessions in-person, with 24-hour access to the camp instructor through an online classroom. The camp welcomes participants from all over Central New Jersey. City Kidz World magazine is distributed in the following areas: Edison, East Brunswick, North Brunswick, South Brunswick, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Piscataway, Metuchen, West Windsor and Plainsboro, Hamilton, Lawrenceville, Princeton, Trenton, and Ewing.
Camp director, Melissa Edwards, who is also part of the editorial and management team of the quarterly magazine City Kidz World, which focuses on multiculturalism and education, said, “At City Kidz World we have an unique team of journalists and teachers. We launched our educational project with our Web site and quarterly magazine two years ago. The magazine always includes feature stories and contests for young people in every issue and the Web site includes even more contests.”
It has always been the plan of City Kidz World to have a teaching component for young people included in this educational project, Edwards said.
Edwards said, “We see those ages between 10 and 18, as the key ages when children can really take off in their writing and creativity and we want to be the missing enrichment program that really helps budding writers and artists figure out how to project their creative voices.”
Young writers and publishers may attend two days a week between May 24 through July 9 or June 28 through August 16. Sessions will be an hour and a half and students will work on nonfiction journalistic writing, fiction, desktop publishing programs, digital photography, or book building. The tuition is only $220 for what will be 16 sessions in-person, with 24-hour access to the camp instructor through an online classroom. The camp welcomes participants from all over Central New Jersey. City Kidz World magazine is distributed in the following areas: Edison, East Brunswick, North Brunswick, South Brunswick, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Piscataway, Metuchen, West Windsor and Plainsboro, Hamilton, Lawrenceville, Princeton, Trenton, and Ewing.
Camp director, Melissa Edwards, who is also part of the editorial and management team of the quarterly magazine City Kidz World, which focuses on multiculturalism and education, said, “At City Kidz World we have an unique team of journalists and teachers. We launched our educational project with our Web site and quarterly magazine two years ago. The magazine always includes feature stories and contests for young people in every issue and the Web site includes even more contests.”
It has always been the plan of City Kidz World to have a teaching component for young people included in this educational project, Edwards said.
Edwards said, “We see those ages between 10 and 18, as the key ages when children can really take off in their writing and creativity and we want to be the missing enrichment program that really helps budding writers and artists figure out how to project their creative voices.”
Recent changes in mass media and communication have also inspired this camp.
Edwards said, “All around us the mass media and communication business model is collapsing. That old model cannot sustain itself. What will happen to journalism and publishing now? At this point it is time for the creativity and drive of the students, the new technologies that exist and innovation to marry and allow a new mass media model to emerge. We are training the new communicators and artists of the future at City Kidz World Writing and Publishing Academy.”
Over the last two years as young people in the Central Jersey area have become familiar with us, City Kidz World magazine has gone from receiving a few contest entries a week, to receiving a flood of entries in our e-mail Inbox and to our postal box daily, Edwards said.
“Young people of all ages are connecting with the idea of creating and writing independently. We want children to write, take photos, draw, and be creative because they feel inspired – not because they will receive a grade,” Edwards said. “I believe that it takes initiative to decide that you will write an essay, a story or take a photo and send it in.”
“When you decide that you want to be a writer or an artist, you have to be in the habit of doing it regularly. It is not something that should only happen in a classroom in a child’s school. We plan to help young people establish their journals and help them to understand how to crave out time for their writing and creativity. We will help them to publish and point them to the tools that will help them understand how to self-publish when they are ready,” Edwards said.
Edwards, who founded the City Kidz World magazine and the camp, said that her inspiration for the magazine and the camp is her own experience at 8 years old of winning a writing contest that was sponsored by a local, children’s magazine.
She said, “I will never forget winning the ‘Ice Cream Story Teller’ writing contest. I was in third grade. They announced my name on a local radio station. I received gift certificates to a fancy ice cream parlor and a photographer came to my school and took my picture.”
“It was an absolutely marvelous experience and it has stayed with me all of this time. I went on to major in journalism in college and then study communications on the graduate level. I taught English full-time in public school and I then finally I became an English and journalism professor at a community college before using all of that inspiration and training to start the City Kidz World educational project,” she said.
“My ambition is to provide that kind of push to other young people through the magazine and the camp,” Edwards said.
For more information and to register for the camp, please go to http://www.citykidzworld.com/writingcoach.php or e-mail writingcourses@citykidzworld.com.
Edwards said, “All around us the mass media and communication business model is collapsing. That old model cannot sustain itself. What will happen to journalism and publishing now? At this point it is time for the creativity and drive of the students, the new technologies that exist and innovation to marry and allow a new mass media model to emerge. We are training the new communicators and artists of the future at City Kidz World Writing and Publishing Academy.”
Over the last two years as young people in the Central Jersey area have become familiar with us, City Kidz World magazine has gone from receiving a few contest entries a week, to receiving a flood of entries in our e-mail Inbox and to our postal box daily, Edwards said.
“Young people of all ages are connecting with the idea of creating and writing independently. We want children to write, take photos, draw, and be creative because they feel inspired – not because they will receive a grade,” Edwards said. “I believe that it takes initiative to decide that you will write an essay, a story or take a photo and send it in.”
“When you decide that you want to be a writer or an artist, you have to be in the habit of doing it regularly. It is not something that should only happen in a classroom in a child’s school. We plan to help young people establish their journals and help them to understand how to crave out time for their writing and creativity. We will help them to publish and point them to the tools that will help them understand how to self-publish when they are ready,” Edwards said.
Edwards, who founded the City Kidz World magazine and the camp, said that her inspiration for the magazine and the camp is her own experience at 8 years old of winning a writing contest that was sponsored by a local, children’s magazine.
She said, “I will never forget winning the ‘Ice Cream Story Teller’ writing contest. I was in third grade. They announced my name on a local radio station. I received gift certificates to a fancy ice cream parlor and a photographer came to my school and took my picture.”
“It was an absolutely marvelous experience and it has stayed with me all of this time. I went on to major in journalism in college and then study communications on the graduate level. I taught English full-time in public school and I then finally I became an English and journalism professor at a community college before using all of that inspiration and training to start the City Kidz World educational project,” she said.
“My ambition is to provide that kind of push to other young people through the magazine and the camp,” Edwards said.
For more information and to register for the camp, please go to http://www.citykidzworld.com/writingcoach.php or e-mail writingcourses@citykidzworld.com.
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