Free Teens Usa - Event
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Teen Media Summit 2008
Read about the event!
Poetry
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Theater performance |
Theater performance |
Vince Miller & Dame Grease |
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NJ WAIT Team |
NJ WAIT Team |
Workshop |
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Workshop |
Gloria Cardona/ Puerto Rico group |
Puerto Rico dancers |
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Artist work group |
Artist presentation |
Artist work group |
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Webcast dancing |
Dance group |
Dance group |
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| Dame Grease & Eun Hwa Mouada |
Diego Costa |
Jamal Johnson |
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John Ashworth & Richard Panzer |
Roderick Giles |
Trife |
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Yvonne Harvey |
Daryl Clarke / webcast dancing |
Rapper |
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Theater performance |
Team building |
Jennifer Miller & Jahnee |
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Service Project & Listenning Party in Paterson, NJ - 10/20/07
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Cleaning Up |
Removing Grafitti |
Service Project |
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Service Project |
Service Project |
The "Golden Broom" reward |
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School Friends |
DJ Jamal |
DJ Poun' |
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Dancing at the Listening Party |
Dancing at the Listening Party |
Dancing at the Listening Party |
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Barbeque & Listening Party |
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2007 Pageant contestants
Winners of the 2007 Free Teens Club Choice Awards
3rd Annual Mr. & Miss Free Teens USA
Pageant Competition 2007
 Free Teens USA held its 3rd Annual Mr. & Miss Free Teens USA Royal Pageant Competition on May 5 at Passaic County Community College in Paterson, NJ. Nine contestants competed for top prizes in the King, Queen and Princess categories.
Competing for King was Alan Akins 15 years old from the Clair Memorial Club in Jersey City. The 5 contestants for Queen included Shaquirah Griffin, 15, from the Higher Call Church Club in Jersey City; Dominique Hart, 17, from the Doles Center Club in Mt. Vernon; T’naiya Kearney, 16, from St. Peter’s Club in Newark; Nicole Paterson, 15, from Seminary Baptist Club in Paterson; and Tonia Ford, 14, Clair Memorial Club in Jersey City. The 3 contestants for Princess included Tatianna Corselli, 13, from the Nepperhan Community Center Club in Yonkers; Fanny Sesay 12, Clair Memorial Club in Jersey City; and Shanell Marsh, 11, from the One Nation Under God Club in Yonkers.
The pageant judges for this year’s competition were Alonzo Moody, Director of the Paterson Department of Youth Services Bureau; Mrs. Barbara Gardner, a Community Realtor from Bergen County, NJ and Cynthia Jackson, Municipal Court Judge from Jersey City, NJ. The contestants were judged on Content, Creativity and Delivery for their essays and Purity/Modesty, Creativity and Delivery for their performances.
Many in the audience expressed how difficult it was to determine which of the contestants gave the best speeches or performances. In the words of the co-MC’s Jamal Johnson and Ashley Robinson, “I wouldn’t want to be a Judge”. The 2007 Mr. & Miss Free Teens USA winners will be announced at the 9th Annual Free Teens USA Banquet on Sunday, June 10th at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Lee, NJ.
Following are several of the speeches given by this year’s contestants.
2007 Pageant contestants
 On July 18, 2007 Denzel Washington visited his Hometown of Mount Vernon, NY to celebrate the positive accomplishments of the city's youth. Among several accomplished youth were a Nationally ranked track star who will be in the Junior Olympics next week in California, the Valedictorian of Mt. Vernon HS who received a full scholarship to Harvard in the fall, the CO-captains of the MVHS State Championship Basketball Team with a 3.7 GPA each. Also honored was Dominique Hart, Miss Free Teens USA 2007. The MC explained that Dominique is in the Free Teens program because it supported her in making good choices for her future like abstaining from sex until marriage. She explained some points about the Free Teens program and that she was going to Virginia State in the fall.
Denzel presented Dominique and the other outstanding Mt. Vernon youth with copies of his book.
Nearly 100 youth from NY, NY, Washington, DC, California and Florida attended the 2007 Free Teens Media Summit in March at the Fairview Lake YMCA camp to work with media professionals including filmmakers, photographers, musicians and visual artists to express the message of healthy relationships and media with a purpose! Photos and original music written and performed by students have been posted on the CultureMachine.com website. You can also visit 2007 Brazil Service Project.
2007 LoveSmart Film Festival
Ryan Verbel and Lilia Gaigg,
winners of the 2007 LoveSmart
Film Festival
Watch 1st place video
2006 LoveSmart Film Festival - Winners
Teens at 2006 LSFF with Richard Panzer
by Tymon & Ranin Brown - St. Stephen's Church, VA
2nd Place - Man at the Podium
by Winners Wait - Montclair, NJ
3nd Place - The Choise Game
by Winners Wait - Montclair, NJ
Finalists
Abstinence Speaks
by Long Branch High School - Long Branch, NJ
Kate's Decision
by Matthew Avery - Crofton, MD
Waiting Room
by Matthew Avery - Crofton, MD
Nightmare
by Wise Women Gathering Place - Green Bay, WI
Watch 2006 film festival finalist videos
Free Teens Kickoff 06-07 School Year
The Free Teens Club Kickoff for the 06-07 school year took place at Snyder HS in Jersey City.
Joshua Murrell and Ashley Hamilton, Mr. and Miss Free Teens 2006
cohosted the program. Julie Edwards, Jersey City area club coordinator, introduced guest speakers included Sandra Cunningham
NJ state senator and wife of the beloved Mayor Glenn Cunningham of Jersey City who passed away while in office. Larry Odoms, principal of Snyder HS
welcomed the 350 Free Teens youth who attended, representing clubs in Paterson, Newark, and Jersey City in NJ and Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, and Harlem in NY. Michael Gallagher, reporter from BBC radio in the United Kingdom
2005 Free Teens Annual Banquet - Video
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