A Shout Out in 3 pictures on how local youth helped Minnesota win $60.5 million in teen vaping lawsuit settlement In March 2018, about 20 Cook County students and chaperones appeared before the Minnesota State Legislature to inform lawmakers of the negative impacts smoking and vaping have on teens. (Read more here: www.borealcorps.org.) The action helped the state frame a... READ MORE >
Sammie Garrity of Lutsen has been accepted into the New York Times Academy summer program for a 2-week July intensive journalism workshop covering New York City area. She will live in a Manhattan dormitory near the Times with fellow Academy students from around the world while being mentored by the leading names in multimedia international journalism on the New York... READ MORE >
Minnesota Children’s Press (www.minnchildpress.org) exists to mentor rural Minnesota children, ages 5-15 years old, for success in 21st century careers—anywhere in the world—by teaching and modeling story crafting skills, digital media literacy, collaborative creative communication, and next-generation technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) in a remote-work setting. Through our Story Scouts children’s entrepreneurial publishing club (part of a new 501(c)... READ MORE >
On December 15, more than 100 copies of a newly published local book, “A Children’s History of Grand Marais, Minnesota: Ice Cream & Fish,” written and illustrated by Cook County children, will be donated to four Cook County organizations as fundraising incentives. Each will receive 32 free copies of the softcover, full-color book created by youth enrolled in Minnesota Children’s... READ MORE >
Grand Marais students in BorealCorps’ Story Scouts club, grades 4-9, won a competition to portray posters about their health messages that show the dangers posed by e-cigarettes and vaping to more than 2,000 of the leading researchers on tobacco and health, Aug. 27-29 at the Minneapolis Convention Center. The goal is to show visitors to the BorealCorps’ project booth how... READ MORE >
