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The Kids Are All Write
Designer
Spring, 2001
For most UCDA
members, a crucial part of the job is to stimulate the minds and hearts of
prospective students. But to succeed, you must first keep in touch with what's
going on in those minds and hearts. Perhaps no place on the Web takes you there
more effectively than TeenInk.com.
The content in the Teen
Ink site, affiliated with the print magazine and book series of the same name, is
created entirely by teens. Indeed, the Massachusetts-based Young Authors
Foundation, which publishes Teenlnk, stipulates that one must be in the 13-19 age
range to be published. In this supportive environment, the teens' creativity
flourishes and spirits run free.
The writing in Teenlnk runs the gamut.
You could read an emotionally searing essay on the death of a parent or a review
of the latest Destiny's Child CD. Discussions on racism and teen pregnancy share
space with humorous remembrances of embarrassing moments. Alongside all that are
plenty of fresh, lively poems and works of short fiction.
Two sections of
the TeenInk site may prove of particular interest to UCDA members. The "College"
section includes reviews of college campuses by visiting high school students,
essays on how kids imagine college life to be, and a directory of institutions
featuring links to official college Web sites (more than 70 schools are listed if
yours isn't there, you would do well to e mail editor@Teenlnk.com). The "Art
Gallery" features hundreds of visually impressive works by teens, with everything
from photography to pencil sketches to oil paintings.
In case you're
needing reassurance (as our parents surely once did) that today's young people
care about our society, possess inquiring minds, and have much to give
creatively, a visit to Teenink should give you plenty of comfort and perhaps
introduce you to some future colleagues.
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