On the Road with Our Democracy

Youth journalist Audrey S. took a road trip from the midwest back home to Pennsylvania. Along the way, she asked passersby 2 questions: What do you think democracy should look like in your life and community? What does democracy actually look like?

By Audrey S. from Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021 in Pennsylvania
Our Democracy at The Philadelphia Writing Project's Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Our Democracy PhilWP Youth Journalism Camp 2021

Teen journalists from the Greater Philadelphia area answer the question "What does democracy look like?" through multimedia journalism about their communities and photographs from their own lives.

More responses from Pennsylvania

Surprise Me

Humans of the Valley

I interviewed my Wellness teacher, Mr. Lezak.

analytical community project

The repaving of Keystone Ave.

Symbols Of Democracy

El Ondrey campaigning for District Attorney. It represents someone running for political office and campaigning for votes for an election. Fair and free elections are the hallmark of democracy.

Humans of the valley

I interviewed one of my teammates who I look up to and asked them how they wanted to be remembered

Bettering our Community

My idea to better our school is to have a more accessible library in our high school. This would benefit students academically and give students a quiet and non-distracting place to study. This would benefit our community as a school and the student.

Final Project

Final project

Humans of the Valley

I interviewed the best substitute in Athens, Trevor Ward.

Humans of the Valley

"Humans of the Valley" was a project heavily inspired by the "Humans of New York" social experiment.

Humans of the Valley

This is a school project.

Humans of the Valley

When prompted to do a "Humans of New York" style interview of someone from the Penn-York valley region of the Twin Tiers, I went to interview Rebecca "Becky" Williams, long-time employee of the Athens Library and citizen of the Valley.

Symbols of Democracy

This picture of an American flag with an American soldier plaque and a Soldier for Life sticker depicts what democracy means to me.

Humans of the Valley

I recently interviewed a friend about what she would've told her younger self.

More responses about " access", "change", "citizenship", "collectivism", and " education"

Surprise Me

Our Democracy

Democracy is a form of justice that allows a country's citizens to stand up for their rights and voice their beliefs. However, certain rivalries and adamant viewpoints within the government's parties may be weakening the effectiveness of the system.

As long as memory lives

On Memorial Day, flags identify the fallen & veterans who served—symbol of gratitude & sacrifice for democracy. Across my community, flags fly year-round on homes, pick-ups, at the road’s edge. What other aspects of democracy is symbolized?

Humans Of Sophomore Honors: Miriam Mende

I interviewed Miriam about her upbringing. She had a lot to say about how she has become more confident through the help of those around her. She goes into detail about who helped her in what situations.

Humans of Sophmore Honors: Samantha Sweet

For our "Humans of Sophomore Honors" interview project, I interviewed Samantha Sweet. I found that she had a deep passion for animals, engraved in her since the beginning of her life.

Faces of cchs

2. He is connected because of his baseball connection with the school and being apart of FFA. He has been apart of the CCHS community for 3 years. He is not proud of anything in being in the CCHS community.

Our Democracy

In this post, I express what democracy means to me. Democracy is who we are and allows us to have many rights we didn't have before. Democracy allows different forms of freedom, power, and equality.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project, I talk about what democracy means to me and the connection between education and democracy and how it has affected me.

How Can Different Models of Education Better Your School?

During a two-week intensive writing camp, students were asked to choose a topic they are passionate about and write a story. I veered towards different models of education and how we could make a school society that benefits all students.

Wheel of Democracy

This image captures the spirit of adding voices to move the wheel of democracy for all citizens in our quest for liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity. It hangs across the street from the site of memorial plaque honoring victims of lynchings

Humans of the valley

I interviewed one of my teammates who I look up to and asked them how they wanted to be remembered

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Lila Ekholdt

In this interview Lila told me about where her motivation comes from. She explained what contributes to her driven personality and attitude towards life.

Humans of Sophomore Honors - Kairi Cox

For my peer interview, my focus was Kairi. Our converstion focuse on how others' perceptions could influence your sense of self. But her take was different, it didn't challenge what she understood about herself. It´s admirable to those struggling.

From Common to Uncommon

For my Passion Project with the Morehead Writing Project, I decided to focus on the heart-breaking reality of child abuse. Wanting to make change for the future of my community, I reached out to my peers and told the unforgiving truth behind abuse.

Our Democracy

For our democracy project I talked about how my picture of me and my friend represent democracy.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Maia

For a project, I interviewed Maia Hales about her life, what she pictures for her future, and some words of wisdom. Maia talked a lot about her family, what she wants to do after high school, and how she would like to be remembered.

Humans of Sophomore Honors: Nova

For humans of Sophomore English I interviewed my classmate Nova. She talked about her life growing up, morals, and values.

our Democracy

I chose the flag to represent democracy because it constitutes the freedom that is offered in america; which is organized by a democracy.

Lisa's Test Response

This is a test.

Humans of the Valley

This was a class project that allowed me to interview one of my soccer teammates and ask her several questions.

Humans of Sophmore Honors:Jordan Phanh

For this project, I interviewed Jordan Phanh. We discussed how his life changed as he grew into young adulthood and the people who helped him along the way.

Our Democracy

Our Democracy is shaped by the citizens of our community and gives people the power for their voice to be heard.

Our Democracy

This post is about my beliefs on what democracy really is. It explains how people are the core of democracy.

Our Democracy: Kate Fazio

Democracy was, now and always should be made up of people who care and understand the people who elected them into office; but is that always the case?

humans of softmore honors:Kata Pardoe

for this assinment i interviewd kata pardoe

Our Democracy

The Our Democracy Education Project is a partnership with the National Writing Project and PhotoWings. PhotoWings' mission is to help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. The project is also supported by the National Geographic Society and Catchlight, and explores the question, “What does democracy look like?” through the creation of a multimedia record of the state of local, everyday democracy today.