Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's urban youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communication, and social change.

The Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program (SAAP) is an 8-week internship program that challenges youth ages 14 to 19 to push their artistic boundaries and engage in an intensive course of individual and collaborative art making. The program utilizes a combination of classroom learning, media lab time, individual projects, field trips, and one-on-one mentoring sessions with working artists.

For 2007 the SAAP topic was “Technology and the Future” and was looking at the future of technology and young people’s vision for how technology will impact their lives. Special attention was paid to understanding the role youth have in shaping culture, creating change within their communities, and making the future of our society. Here is the result:


A New Way of Resurrection

2020 - As we all know a few years ago the idea of "Cryonics" came into play. This process of replacing the water in body with an anti-freeze mixture called "cryoprotectant”, which is stored in cryopreseved patients to bring them back to life to study their corpses and develop new medical cures. Read more...»

Catch Up Boys

It’s August 16, 2020 and Serenity Thomas is the billionth girl graduating from college. She got her degree in African American Studies from Howard University in Washington, D.C. This comes at no surprise. The number of girls around the world getting degrees has gone up feverishly since the 1970's. Read more...»

What's so bad about all of this Global Warming?

On October 11, 2020, News of Future reported that Mount Kilimanjaro has lost its snowcap. The mountain has had its snowcap for 11,000 years. The scientists fear the reason that the ice cap is melting is that the temperature has rose by 0.8 Celsius, which means that its has slowed down the rain and the ice caps can't freeze and can't form ice crystals. Read more...»

Hip-Hop at an All Time High!!!!!

March 22, 2035 - The Hip-hop Music Industry is at an all time high in album sales and concert ticket sales and concert attendance. Artist numbers have exceeded in even the billions because of the large population of people in the world. The world population has reached 9 billion people in 2020. Majority of people in the world has taken a custom to hip-hop.
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Portable Video Games a Big Problem

July 18, 2037 - The PSP, Ds Lite, Gameboy-2037 is a favorite portable video game that is now in the news for being a big problem. A 13-year-old boy from Chicago is in a youth home after starting a fight with another youth. The boy is addicted to video games. Read more...»

Global Chaos

Today July 28, 2038 there has been a large shortage of water due to global warming and Coke Cola. Experts have stated that Seventy-Three percent of the earth’s water is now owned by Coke Cola. It is distilled and placed into water bottles. Cola companies all over the globe has been illegally stealing water from countries turning them into drought areas. Read more...»

New Super HIV Number 1 Threat to Human Race

July 8, 2043 - Today, the Surgeon General’s office announced that a new strand of HIV has developed. This so-called “super virus” is always changing and evolving. The virus has combined with another virus called Airotomoton, causing the HIV virus to become airborne. Read more...»

More Species of Animals Extinct

January 1, 2050 – As of today 1 out of 10 species of animals that were alive during the turn of the century have become extinct. Climate changes, destruction of habitats, and animals being hunted have all contributed to these animals and plants dying out. Its is impossible to determine exactly how many animals there are on there earth but it is easy to see that a large amount of these animals are dying rapidly. Read more...»

The Only Way to Drive - Auto Safety Way Up in 2053

Luther Corp. at 4pm east coast time May 21, 2053 is having a massive vehicle collision on the nation’s major highways. “The purpose of this is to show the safety of the auto- motive vehicle at this day age and Huber craft” said by a spokesman for the company. There has been a big drop in automobile crashes seen 2008. Read more...»

Black Hole Arrives

Monday, 4 October 2055-4pm est.:NASA announced that a black hole has entered our galaxy. NASA’s information shows that the black hole is nearly 1 million miles away and is 5 feet in width; scientist Roger Green says this young cluster could be a huge problem. Although the black hole is currently only 5 feet in width it is expected to grow over time when it consumes more gases. Read more...»

Global Warming Melts the Antarctic

November 28, 2056 - Today, Antarctica has officially melted due to the effects of global warming. The average surface temperature in Antarctica was minus 37 degrees C on November 15, and in only 13 days has risen to 45* C, a 7 degree increase. This is the fastest increase ever in recorded history. Read more...»

President Bored of being the Commander in Chief

November 1, 2057 - Recently, President Bush Kerry Jr. has announced he is getting bored of being the Commander in Chief, so he has been slacking off much like his great grandfather did, George W. Bush. Ironically, he has the worst approval rating of any American president since his great grand father. Read more...»

The Finding of Atlantis

On November 29, 2058 Susan B. Wilson was the finder of Atlantis. Atlantis was known as a legendary myth that was told by Plato. Ms. Wilson was near south of the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean. In her own words “I saw statues, buildings that were almost gone, and other valuable things”. Read more...»
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