Today’s Teen is a newspaper written primarily by teens, for teens, which made debuted in October 2005 in Boca Raton, Fla. In January 2007, Today's Teen partnered with The Palm Beach Post, enabling the paper to reach even more students throughout Palm Beach County. The paper is distributed to middle, high, and alternative schools, as well as local universities and colleges, nine times a year. Today’s Teen is also delivered to businesses, professional offices, restaurants, teen centers, fitness centers, and many other venues that teens and their parents often frequent.

Since its inception, Today’s Teen has been successful in catching and keeping the interest of teens (and parents) throughout the community and beyond, by encouraging them to write about the issues that interest them the most, from politics, religion, community service, and career options, to psychology, sports, movie, book, and concert reviews. Also included are sections on poetry, photography, artwork and illustration.

What we accomplish...

Today’s Teen gives teens the opportunity to hone their creative talents and to have a place to publish their work, to learn about the responsibility of meeting deadlines and the importance of teamwork, to bolster their self-confidence and self-esteem, and, to build community ties by establishing relationships with teens in other schools through e-mails and actual interviews. Another great benefit of Today’s Teen - parents and educators can catch a glimpse of what’s important to the teen community at large.

Our objectives...

• To offer teens a forum in which to hone their creative talents and journalistic skills, through writing fiction, opinion pieces, investigative features, book and movie reviews, editing, etc…and artistically through photography, illustration, newspaper layout and design, ad design, and web design.
• To offer students the opportunity to have their work published, thereby providing them with the collateral materials they need to build their high school and college portfolios or to seek internships and prospective jobs in journalism, media arts or related fields.
• To teach students the importance of teamwork, meeting deadlines, and organizational skills.
• To show teens that we do want to hear what they have to say – that their opinions do matter to their peers, their teachers, and their parents
• To help build teen self-esteem, by letting any teen who wants to be heard (or read) have that chance if possible, room permitting in the publication.
• To offer educators in the school system an incentive to their students to increase work performance and to provide educators with an additional tool for classroom use besides the computer or textbook.
• To build a sense of community between schools and teens everywhere, and between parents and their teens.
  

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