In this episode, we expand on the question of ‘What makes you ... you?’ as our host interviews students from different studios at WMCAT to answer that question, understand what brought them to the Teen Arts + Tech Program, and ask where they plan to go from here. Creativity, community, and student voice. WMCAST: By Teens, For You is created by a team of high school students in the Teen Arts + Tech Program at the West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT). The Teen Arts + Tech Program is tuition-free, afterschool experience through which Grand Rapids Public high school students leverage visual arts and digital media to build creative confidence, elevate voice, connect with community, and explore possibilities for the future.    This season on WMCAT, students explored the question, “What makes you … you?”    Learn more about WMCAT at wmcat.org. Learn more about the Teen Arts + Tech Program at artstech.wmcat.org. 

Welcome to our first episode of WMCAST: By Teens, For You. In this episode, we discuss our proudest moments, our pain, our heritage, our goals; the things that make us ... us.  Creativity, community, and student voice. WMCAST: By Teens, For You is created by a team of high school students in the Teen Arts + Tech Program at the West Michigan Center for Arts + Technology (WMCAT). The Teen Arts + Tech Program is tuition-free, afterschool experience through which Grand Rapids Public high school students leverage visual arts and digital media to build creative confidence, elevate voice, connect with community, and explore possibilities for the future.  This season on WMCAT, students explored the question, “What makes you … you?”  Learn more about WMCAT at wmcat.org. Learn more about the Teen Arts + Tech Program at artstech.wmcat.org.  Instagram: @wmcatgr Facebook: facebook.com/wmcat