- [Announcer] Funding for this program has been provided by... (upbeat music) - Hi, I'm Olivia, and welcome to "Young Creators Studio."

This season, we're coming to you from Mt.

Cuba Center in Delaware.

Kids from all around Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware have been hard at work creating their student films.

So stick around to see what we have in store for you today.

(upbeat music) - Try not to fall asleep this time!

- I'm not gonna fall asleep!

(audience laughing) - Oh, god, it's the police.

This is it.

- Act normal.

Act normal.

(audience laughs) - [Ms. Ferriola] It's really impressive.

High school students come in here, and in 40 minutes put together a morning show and air it live.

(energetic rock music) - Sophia, Taty, Caitlyn, and Lucy, what do all these names have in common?

They're my friends, and we've been through so much together, from the awkward growing pains of middle school to the exciting moments planning for our life after high school.

Friendship is one of the most important things in a kid's life, so it's no wonder why we have so many great student films about this topic today, enjoy!

(text scratching) (calm piano music) (door squeaking) (calm piano music continues) (calm piano music continues) (water splashing) (calm piano music continues) (water splashing) (calm piano music continues) (dramatic piano music) (calm piano music) (water splashing) (calm piano music continues) (calm piano music continues) (text scratching) (light-hearted music) (teacher speaking faintly) (spooky music) (ominous air whooshing) - Okay, so the first thing that you wanna do is you wanna look at your constant divisor, and you wanna make sure that you're switching the sign on it.

In order to switch the sign, you just consider the number that you've got, and then you make it the opposite of that sign.

The next thing that you wanna do is you wanna take the coefficient to what you're dividing into, and you write that, and (speaking indistinctly).

- Hey, are you okay?

- Starting with it highest degree form opposite of that side.

The answer is not the number, okay.

(water splashing) (eerie music) (solemn music) (paintbrush thwaps) (solemn music continues) (person knocking) - Hey, you okay?

You mind if I come in?

(footsteps tapping) Hi, I'm Wes.

- It's nice to meet you.

I'm Artemis.

- I know, we did art class back in fourth grade, remember?

- Oh, my god, at the community center.

- Yeah.

- I remember that.

I always thought you were the best in the class.

- Well, I'm nothing.

I've seen the work that you could do.

It's a lot better than what you give yourself credit for.

- I don't know about that.

(paper crackling) - Oh, my god, this is so cool.

- Are you serious?

It sucks.

- Only an artist would say that.

- I'm terrible at art.

I used to love it, but I just, it's not the same.

- Well, I don't know about you, but this looks amazing to me.

- Sometimes I feel like I'm going crazy.

- I think we all go through moments like that, but what I do is, I do art, it helps me.

- I don't think I like making art anymore.

- Are you serious?

- I don't know.

- Well, I do know that this just gave me an idea.

Meet me on the rooftop, six o'clock.

(spray can rattling) (spray paint hissing) Art is supposed to be fun.

You seem to have lost your fun.

This seems like a good place to start.

- What do I do?

(spray can rattling) (spray paint hissing) (peaceful music) (text scratching) (ominous music) - Hello?

Is anyone there?

- [Mysterious Voice] Marcus!

Marcus!

Come to me, Marcus.

Come to me, Marcus.

Come to me!

Marcus!

You can't evade me, Marcus.

Marcus!

- No!

- [Mysterious Voice] Marcus!

- No!

- Marcus!

- No, don't drink my blood!

- Don't drink my, what are you talking about, bro?

- Uh, nothing, man.

I'm sorry.

(whimsical music) - No, this is about Marcella.

- Marcella, my girlfriend?

Why do you keep bringing this up, man?

- We need to talk about this.

- No, I'm not talking about this with you again.

Come on, let's just go.

(whimsical music continues) - Listen, bro, I've known you since the second grade.

Marcella is using you!

- Dude, listen, all right?

It's not even like that, though, okay?

You keep bringing this up like it's something when it's not.

- Were you up last night doing her homework?

- What?

No, dude, it was just her biology project, okay?

- Marcus, we are nerds.

She is a mean girl.

We're like the rebellion, and she's like the empire.

- You know you're nerdiness increased the more you continued that metaphor, right?

- It's actually simile because the use of like, but whatever.

- But we're Marcus and Marcella, dude.

- No one says that!

(students chattering) - She's coming!

- Hey, Marc!

- Hey, babe.

How's it going?

(whimsical music) - Annabel.

- Hey, Michael.

- Trinity.

- Hey, Marvin.

- Don't you mean Jamal?

(whimsical music) (students chattering) - Hey, Marc.

I'm so happy to see you.

- Me, too, beautiful.

- Do you have that thing for my bio project?

I'm kinda in a hurry.

- Uh, yeah, yeah, here.

- Is this for bio?

- It's actually an animal cell.

- You could fill the vascular system up.

- Right, goodo, thanks.

- Can I trade it for kiss?

- Sorry, makeup, right?

I'll see you later for that essay though, right?

- Essay?

- Yeah.

I texted you about it last night to do it today.

Don't let me down on this.

(whimsical music) - Holy doormat, Batman.

- Look, you, you don't understand the nature of our love, okay?

- You mean how you do all the work while she lusts after Jamal, the star center of our basketball team.

- I don't know what you mean.

(students chattering) - Oh, I'm sorry, bro.

- I mean, she, she probably just knows Jamal from church or or school even.

- Yeah, they definitely know each other, like biblically.

- You and your similes, man.

- I know it's hard being the smart kids in a not-smart school, but I'd rather be my authentic nerd self than some fake nails, fake eyelashes mean person.

And I hate seeing my bro get crushed, like, like- - Please, no more similes, okay?

- All right, look, um, I'm gonna go to the library and get some stuff done, all right?

I'll, I'll see you later - Working on her essay.

Just try not to fall asleep this time.

- I'm not gonna fall asleep!

- [Marcella] Marcus!

(ominous music) Come to me, Marcus.

Come to me.

(ominous music continues) Marcus!

It's me, Marcus.

I need you, Marcus.

- Marcella?

- Yes, Marcus, I need you.

Are you ready?

(eerie music) (Marcus thuds) (eerie music) Marcus!

(Marcus shouting) Marc, where were you?

How come you didn't bring me my essay?

Class ended!

Where were you?

(fingers snapping) - I was here, asleep from working all night on the stuff that you should be doing yourself.

- What did you just say to me, Marc?

- It's Marcus, Marcella, not Marc.

And I may be a humble nerd in this weird school, but you're a fake student about to get run over by real life as soon as we get outta here.

- Fake student?

- Yeah, you're as fake a student as your eyelashes and your hair and your lips.

- My lips are real!

- Your lips are about as real as Jamal's chances of making the NBA.

Did I save the day?

Am I your Han Solo?

- Nice metaphor.

(hand thwaps) (paper crackling) - That was my college application, dude!

- Oh, uh, uh... (laptop thuds) - Screw it, whatever.

Let's go, bro.

(calm music) (text scratching) - I'm Ken.

- And I'm Steph.

- And you're watching- - [Both] MDTV.

(upbeat music) ♪ Yeah, yeah, ooh ♪ (bell ringing) (door clanks) - Are you serious?

(footsteps clomping) (audience laughing) Screw this, I'm skipping.

(audience laughs) (door creaks) (audience laughs) (audience cheering and applauding) - Steph, what are you doing here?

- I got a detention.

I'm so done with this school.

Are you okay?

- Yeah, same here.

I have like 16 missing assignments due in my first-period class right now, and I know if I go, they're gonna gimme detention.

(audience laughing) (audience laughing) - This is so much fun.

- I know, right?

(steering wheel clanking) - Do you think someone will notice?

- No way.

I hope not.

- But like what if Officer Pilla sees us and like calls the police?

- He's not gonna see us.

I mean, he's probably still on the campus.

Let's go.

- Okay.

(police siren bleeping) - Oh, my god, do you see that?

(audience laughing) - Oh, god, it's the police.

This is it.

- Act normal.

Act normal.

(audience laughs) - Okay, I think it's good.

- (sighs) That was a close one.

- It was.

We need to get this golf cart back to the school as soon as possible.

- I mean, yeah, I guess.

(audience laughs) (upbeat music) - I can't believe we just did that.

- Yeah, that was a close call.

- Yeah, we cannot do anything like that again.

I'm sorry.

- Oh, of course not.

(audience laughing) (upbeat music) - Hi, it's Olivia again.

Are you pumped to meet some awesome and creative students?

In this Creator Spotlight, we're sharing with you some young newsmakers who are creating fun and informative content in their school and community.

(text scratching) - Chloe.

- Oh, do you need a board?

- She's not here, AD.

Um, you can do it.

Yes, Audrey.

- Yes, Audrey.

- Yes, Audrey.

- I really just enjoy being able to start off my day with a bunch of people that are, that love doing broadcast journalism like I do.

I love being able to come right into school and go into a TV studio and just get to report the news as the first thing I do in the morning.

- Four, three, two, one, take two.

Go, Julia.

- It's really impressive, honestly, that high school students come in here and in 40 minutes put together a morning show and air it live.

I love watching the learning process of that, just a really satisfying way to start my day.

- It's super cool because being a student and being able to do something like this big at such a young age is something that's like really inspiring and like, I think, motivating, like as a student.

- I think my favorite part of "Good Morning Stoga" is just like the controlled chaos in the mornings and like how it just brings the mornings to life.

To cover topics that students care about, we get to like make these packages every rotation, and we can choose whatever we want to cover those packages.

So you can honestly choose like any topic like going on in like school or like the real world, and it really like helps you just get any message you want out there.

- They really do shape the broadcast.

Like I said, we go with a certain outline, but for the most part, you know, the eight minutes every morning that we do go live, they can basically cover whatever they want.

- I'm really grateful that I'm able to use my voice in a way that enlightens different topics and social topics that the students need to be like concerned about.

It's a great thing that like we're able to use this show as such like a device for all these awareness.

- Since I started taking GMS, and since I've been a part of the whole TV studio, I've just become more aware of what's happening in the outside world.

I follow the news a lot more.

I closely make sure I'm up to date with what's happening, and I think without being a part of GMS and getting that journalistic experience in school, I would be less in tune to what's happening outside of school.

- I think it helped me research things better and kind of like find sources that would help me like compile like a more compelling argument and just like coming up with ways to like wording-wise like be able to be more concise.

- This class gives you, I mean, it's basically under the communications realm, right?

So it really does give you the communication skills that you need when you leave high school.

You learn to speak with adults and ask questions.

You learn to speak with peers in a way that isn't just friendly, right?

You learn to gather information, you're inquisitive.

You learn how to write a professional email, which you would think is a really simple thing, but a lot of students don't know that, and it's not in every class that you learn how to do that.

So I think they take away a lot more communication skills, and a lot of those life skills are things that you have to learn in a project-based class like this one.

- He's just quiet, though let's get loud for this awesome- - I'm definitely very fortunate to be able to get this journalism experience in high school.

We have this like state-of-the-art studio at Conestoga, and just the opportunity to get all this broadcast journalism experience before I enter college is really cool.

I know a lot of other people are not able to do that, and it really gives me an insight on what I would want to do in my future before I even enter college.

- So I think this is a really great place, this television studio.

It's a welcoming space.

I mean, I hope it is.

I try to make it as welcoming as possible.

There's high energy here, so when kids come in, I think they're immediately kind of put into a better mood because, you know, they want to be here.

They don't even realize a lot of times that what they're doing is learning because they're enjoying it.

So I really hope they enjoy the class, and I hope they enjoy their experience here, and I hope that they find something that they love to do and do it in the future.

- Being in GMS has really provided me the opportunity to discover that I love journalism, and now I have an idea of what I want to do post high school.

I know I want to be a journalist because I love the idea of spreading news to the community and making everyone as informed as possible, because at the end of the day, that's the most important thing, that society as a whole is more informed.

(upbeat music) - Thanks for watching another episode of "Young Creators Studio."

You know, after four years of posting this show, I kind of feel like you and I are friends, right, bestie?

Catch up with us online at whyy.org.

I'm Olivia, and I'll see you next time.

(upbeat music) - I know it's hard being the smart kids in a not-smart school, but I'd rather be my authentic nerd self than some fake nails, fake eyelashes mean person.