WTIP Youth

Check out the Cook County Youth Radio Project Facebook Page!

Check out the Cook County Youth Radio Project Facebook Page!

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Become a WTIP Youth Producer

Become a WTIP Youth Producer

Learn all the ins-and-outs of radio with WTIP! Become a youth radio producer today! We'll teach you how to host and engineer...

Check out the Thursday Youth Show each week at 5 p.m.!

Check out the Thursday Youth Show each week at 5 p.m.!

Join your hosts Kara Ramey, Sterling Anderson, Maddee Young, Czarina Crow & Mara MacDonell for an hour of youth interviews...

Join Youth Mix Show hosts Gabby & Czarina Saturdays at 2

Join Youth Mix Show hosts Gabby & Czarina Saturdays at 2

Saturday Youth Mix Show host Gabby spins some tunes at WTIP...

Join Cy & Joey for an hour of music & chat Saturdays at 2

Join Cy & Joey for an hour of music & chat Saturdays at 2

Cy and Joey bring you an hour of music and chat Saturdays at 2.
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Support for WTIP’s Youth Radio Project comes in part from the state of Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
Want to be the next voice in radio? Want to learn how to record and edit music & audio? Through the WTIP Youth Radio Project, you’ll learn all the aspects of radio work: from recording an interview to audio engineering to hosting a music show.

Tune in for the Youth PM Show Thursdays at 5 p.m.
This week on the Youth Show, we revisit some old Youth Radio Project commentaries on "summer," and we launch our summer version of the show! Check it...
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Audrey Summers
Audrey Summers will be a junior at Cook County High School. She is 16 years old and has lived in Grand Marais her whole life. She joined the Youth Radio Project because of her interest in writing and thinks it's a good way for people to express their ideas to the community. In her free time, Audrey...
Cy Fortunato
Cy Fortunato started as a youth host in January 2012. He hosts and engineers Anonymous Radio, a bi-weekly Youth Mix Show on Saturday afternoons. Cy is going to be a junior in high school this year. He is 16 years old and has lived in Grand Marais for about 10 years. He was born in Colorado, then...
Czarina Crow
Czarina started as a youth host in January 2012. She hosts and engineers the Saturday Youth Mix Show...
Gabby Christensen
Gabby started as a youth co-host in January 2012. She helps co-host the Saturday Youth Mix Show...
Joey Chemelik
Joey started as a youth co-host in spring 2012. He helps co-host the Saturday Youth Mix Show...
Kara Ramey
Kara joined the Youth Radio Project in the fall of 2012. She co-hosts the Youth Show on...
Shawn Neuwirth
Shawn Neuwirth was born in the East and at the age of six moved to Grand Marais. He enjoys all kinds of books, video games, and badminton when he is not helping his dad around the house. Shawn started to do the Youth Radio Project because he thought being on the radio would be fun....
Sterling Anderson
Sterling is a senior at Cook County High School. He hosts and engineers the Youth Show on Thursdays. During the spring and summer he enjoys spending his time on the golf course. He joined the Youth Radio Project in the summer of...
CeCe Olsen
Cece Olsen is a senior in high school and joined the Youth Radio Project because she’s very interested in radio. She loves music and hopes to expand her knowledge through the class. She especially enjoys hosting music mix shows at WTIP. In addition to her involvement at WTIP through the Youth...
Cedar Adams
Cedar Adams joined the Youth Radio Project in the summer of 2012. She co-hosts the Thursday Youth Show and writes commentaries on a variety of topics.
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Danny Lunde
Daniel Lunde, or more commonly Danny, graduated from Cook County High School in the spring of 2011. His family arrived in Tofte two years ago, after moving from a small town in north-central North Dakota. Since then, he’s been enjoying life by the lake. In his free time he likes watch movies,...
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PSEO class (MathTeacherGuy/Flickr)
The Youth Radio Project interviewed senior Rachel Todd on her decision to enroll in PSEO courses at The College of Saint Scholastica her senior...
Junior-Senior Banquet (TonySimkin/Flickr)
This week on the Youth Show, we talked with junior Megan Lehto about her experience planning and attending the Junior-Senior...
Graduation (shiladsen/Flickr)
Graduation has finally arrived for the Class of 2013. This week on the Youth Show, valedictorian Mara MacDonell and salutatorian Katie Vander Heiden joined us in the studio to talk about how they achieved these honors, what their future plans are and their advice for younger...
Uganda (sweggs/Flickr)
Cook County High School student Michaela Peterson of the Class of 2013 has big plans for next year. She'll be heading off to Uganda, and perhaps other countries in Africa, to help rebuild war-torn communities. In this interview, youth producer Sterling Anderson speaks with Michaela about why...
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Mystery Noise! Photo by Oberazzi via Flickr.
Take a listen to this week's "Mystery Noise," a feature on the Thursday PM Youth Show! Give us your guess by commenting on our Youth Radio Project Facebook...
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Joey's Random Fact
Cy Fortunato and Joey Chemelik are two hosts of the Saturday Youth Mix Show. Each time they host the program, Joey shares a random fact. This week, Joey shares an interesting fact about dueling in...
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