Oregon150

May 27, 2009
Oregon 150, Voice Box Media Challenge High School Students to Become Community Organizers
Watch students in action here.

Oregon 150, in collaboration with Travis Huntington of Voice Box Media and the Multnomah Youth Commission, are embarking on a statewide road trip to engage high school students in identifying their vision of Oregon’s future for the next 50 years. The trip began Tuesday, May 26, and will end Wednesday, June 3. This outreach effort is the first phase of Oregon 150’s Youth Legacy project, “Project 2059.”

Project 2059 is using an online social networking and community organizing campaign to provide teenagers with a platform to voice their visions for Oregon’s future. The goal of this multimedia visioning process is to identify youth in each town who understand their stake in the future of Oregon’s development and want to do something proactive about it.

“By giving students an active role in structuring community organizing efforts, we’re looking to ensure peer-to-peer outreach and to embed a transformational process that not only gets young people thinking about their communities, but becoming active in them as well,” said Aili Schreiner, Project Manager of Project 2059.

Huntington will visit high schools across the state and lead 45-minute question and answer sessions with students while facilitating conversations about public policy issues from the youth perspective.

Students are asked to complete an online application to continue participating in Project 2059, as well as move their conversations to the Project 2059 Facebook group and engage with peers on a statewide level. These conversations will be recorded and posted on the Oregon 150 YouTube page and Project 2059 Facebook group. Footage is already available for viewing on YouTube (link listed below) from Phase 1 of this road trip, where teens from Central and Northeastern Oregon were interviewed.

Link to Oregon 150 YouTube page

Link to Project 2059 Facebook group

The following is an itinerary for the Project 2059 road trip:

May 26
St. Helens: 10:30 a.m.
Astoria: 12:00 p.m.
Seaside: 1:30 p.m.
Tillamook: 3:30 p.m.

May 27
Lincoln City: 8:00 a.m.
Newport Bay: 9:30 a.m.
Waldport: 11:00 a.m.
Florence: 1:30 p.m.
Coos Bay: 3:00 p.m.
Bandon: 4:30 p.m.

May 28
Brookings: 7:30 a.m.
Ashland: 12:00 p.m.
Medford: 1:30 p.m.
Grants Pass: 3:00 p.m.

May 29
Eugene: 7:30 a.m.
Corvallis: 10:00 a.m.
Salem: 1:00 p.m.
Woodburn: 3:30 p.m.

June 1
Arlington: 9:30 a.m.
The Dalles: 11:30 a.m.
Hood River: 1:30 p.m.
Troutdale: 3:30 p.m.

June 3
Beaverton: 9:30 a.m.
Hillsboro: 11:30 a.m.
Banks: 1:30 p.m.
Forest Grove: 3:00 p.m.
Roseburg: 4:30 p.m.

Stay tuned for Portland dates!

For more information, contact:

Julie Gash
Marketing Coordinator
Oregon 150
503.445.7120
julie@oregon150.org

Aili Schreiner; Scott Lansing
Project Manager; Project Coordinator
Oregon 150
503.445.7120
aschreiner@oregon150.org; slansing@oregon150.org