For the 5th Annual Youth Designers Take Action Poster Competition, in partnership with Cause Consulting, Youth Designers responded to Boston Mayor Marty Walsh’s High School Redesign initiative. The Youth Designers were challenged to leverage the power of design and messaging via a Public Service Announcement (PSA) poster to inspire others to create educational opportunities for student success.

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For the 5th Annual Youth Designers
Take Action Poster Competition, in
partnership with Cause Consulting,
Youth Designers responded to Boston
Mayor Marty Walsh’s High School
Redesign initiative. The Youth Designers
were challenged to leverage the power
of design and messaging via a Public
Service Announcement (PSA) poster to
inspire others to create educational
opportunities for student success.

3. youth designers take action competition 2015 Aedan Clark
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B R I N G A R T T O B O S T O N P U B L I C S C H O O L S

4. youth designers take action competition 2015 Daniel Smelansky
TAKE YOUR TEACHING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
LEARNINGCANNOT BE CONTAINED

5. youth designers take action competition 2015 Tara Rahman
WE SHOULDN’T
ONLY WRITE.
WE SHOULDN’T
ONLY PAINT.
INSTEAD, COMBINE THEM.
Since implementing arts integration schoolwide
in 2009, there has been a 23 percent drop in the
average number of referrals and suspensions per
student. The percentage of students proficient
or advanced in math has grown four times more
than the state's over the same period, and five
times more in reading.
(Nobori, Mariko. "How the Arts Unlock the Door to Learning." Edutopia. 29 Aug. 2012.
<http://www.edutopia.org/stw-arts-integration-reform-overview>.)

6. youth designers take action competition 2015 Kyle Whitley

7. youth designers take action competition 2015 Lily Yuan
EXPERIENCE
FUTURE
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Curious about College and Professional Work Life?
Aprogramwhich invites Boston Public School students
Speaktopeoplewhocangiveinsighttoyourfuture!
tovisitandexperiencedifferent
collegesand companiesoftheirinterest.

8. youth designers take action competition 2015 Molly Tran

9. youth designers take action competition 2015 Ronnie Watkins

10. youth designers take action competition 2015 Randy Aguilar

11. youth designers take action competition 2015
Choose
Your
Profession
Architecture Teacher
Doctor
Illustrator
Psychologist
Testing in the
classroom
Educational
psychology
Educational
technology
Classroom
management
Adolescent
behavior
and development
Developmental
psychology
General
psychology
Abnormal
psychology
Statistical
methods
in psychology
Personality
Graphic Design
Anatomy
Studio
Arts
Design and Visual
Communications
Photography
College
Math
English
Biology
Physics
General
Chemistry
Social
Psychology
Structural design Site designArchitectural history
Drafting/technical
drawing
Computer/
graphic arts
Construction
technology
Organic
Chemistry
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LIFE Career.
Khyle Park

12. youth designers take action competition 2015 Shamaine Darden

13. youth designers take action competition 2015 Bethany Barrant
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14. Youth Design is a leading Boston-based nonprofit organization that
empowers talented urban youth to pursue a path to Higher Education
and promising equitable careers by engaging the professional design
community to mentor, educate, train and employ the next generation.
Since 2003, Youth Design has helped to shape the next generation of
diverse design professionals through aggressive educational and
workforce development initiatives set in the context of design while
promoting diversity in the creative economy.
Cause Consulting is a Boston-based strategy and communications firm
that helps companies simultaneously strengthen business and impact
society. Ranked as the #2 CSR Communications Agency by CR Magazine,
the firm specializes in CSR strategy, signature programs, cause marketing,
employee engagement and communications.
Thank you to all of the students who participated in
Youth Designers Take Action 2015.