On Saturday, May 12th (tomorrow) from 1-5pm at the West Side YMCA there will be Hive's first 1st Amendment Hack Jam! It’s a free event for tweens and teens to explore and exercise their constitutional rights.
We’ve partnered with The American Constitution Society to extend their Constitution in the Classroom program by taking it out of the classroom and examining at the First Amendment with a web-ified lens to help youth learn more about everything from fair use to expressive conduct in schools.Every day we hear another story about a student whose statements or actions raise questions about where 1st Amendment rights end and school rules begin. Can they get in trouble at school for something they Tweet on their own time? How and where are they expressing their opinions, online and off?
Youth will explore the answers to these questions while also learning how to hack websites, remix videos, express their opinions on controversial topics, and more.