Youth

Students, artists and community activists from the four quadrants of the city — South Side, Eastwood, West Side and North Side — came together to produce a unique, citywide puppet performance titled Art-in-Motion to celebrate the diversity and creativity of each neighborhood and foster an overall sense of community in Syracuse.

Workshops and networks help parents decide whether to teach their children at home As local students gear up to go back to school, a growing number won’t make it past their front doors. Instead, they will receive their education right at home. Homeschooling is the education of children under their parents’ general care and replaces full-time attendance in a public …

Corcoran High School graduating senior Lennard Streat dreams of using his artistic talent to give back to the community. The 17-year-old is willing to donate the time and material to paint a mural in the South Side of Syracuse as a form a neighborhood revitalization. “Art is something people take lightly, but it impacts them in a big way,” Streat …

1 Say Yes to Education is a national, non-profit foundation committed to increasing high school and college graduation rates for urban youth.

A new grant-funded program at Corcoran High School aims to inspire students to pursue engineering careers. Project Lead the Way is a math and science college preparatory program featuring two courses that introduce high school students to the field of engineering. Students in the program are also eligible to earn up to three college credits.

Admirers say Seth Dollar’s music is on the money, despite his youth Seth Dollar has a dream. The 16-year-old Syracuse-based rapper wants to become an established artist and reach the success level of rappers like Lloyd Banks and 50 Cent. Dollar, or Seth Colton as he is known to his friends and family, became interested in rapping after he first …

Syracuse high school girls went wild over the surprise appearance of hip-hop sensations Sandy “Pepa” Denton and Cheryl “Salt” James, better known as Salt-N-Pepa, during the Sixth annual Sisters Empowering Sisters Youth Conference held Friday and Saturday, March 26 and 27.

The fifth-grader studied the chess board, barely glancing up when a group of his classmates loudly entered the room. With his brow furrowed in concentration, Dave Ahyee strategically advanced his queen, seizing his opponent’s pawn. “I like to think a lot,” said the 10-year-old member of Southside Charter Academy’s chess club. “It’s a thinking game.”

Students from various Syracuse University organizations participated in a Leadership Summit Saturday, Feb. 20, in SU’s Life Science Complex.