Last month, the RYSE Center Health and Wellness Team set out on a mission: to truly inform their peers about H1N1 (swine flu) through a wide range of media platforms. When they were finished, youth would not worry about petting pigs at the zoo, instead, they would know when and where to get vaccinated. Using online-and-offline quizzes and games, video, audio, and research reporting, the youth truly showed what it takes to educate and entertain in an evolving world of media.

As common as the cars its citizens used to produce, Detroit is now home to a slew of obituary writers who would rather write about city's death than work to change it. Despite that occasionally-overwhelming stench of mass media, people are coming up with their own solutions to the common problems of Detroit and other neglected American cities. Far away from magazine covers and newspaper's front pages, a wide range of young people are attacking awkward social issues and difficult farming fields with a contagious enthusiasm that escaped the previous generation.