About BLAST Fest Youth Media Fellowships
Grand Challenges, Local Goals
As the world recalibrates in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, the voices of young people in shaping a better future are more important than ever. The BLAST Fest Youth Media Fellowships engaged engineers with young creatives to explore the role of Engineering in responding to such challenges and how we can imagine, build and communicate an inclusive economy and sustainable future for all.
Four youth media fellows aged 18 - 24 were matched with an engineer and mentor and received a bursary and small event budget, attended multimedia and science communication masterclasses and were connected to engineering and media development opportunities. Their creative content was generated and shared through live and online events, before all the cohort’s journeys were collated into a final short film.
