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2020 Media Arts Center San Diego (San Diego, California, USA) Media Arts Center San Diego shortened their usual four hour, in-person digital media sessions to 90 minutes each for online delivery of their Teen Producers summer program in response to the COVID 19 pandemic. The team assessed participants' accessibility to technology to create a digital lending library and to help redesign their curriculum into online bootcamps which focused more on independent learning of a topic or a technical skill. Each week's bootcamp covered a different topic such as: directing the actor, audio editing, colour correction, etc. These bootcamps were designed and delivered to introduce the participant to a skill, followed by allowing participants to engage in different exercises to put theory into practice. 34 young creatives participated in the Teen Producers summer program. These young creatives produced short films about how the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted their communities ranging in topics from sports to local youth theatres to classroom set ups in schools which are hosted on their YouTube channel. Organization for Youth Empowerment (El Progreso, Honduras) To best serve their young creatives during the COVID 19 padamic, the Organization for Youth Empowerment evaluated the digital media skills level and access to technology for each participant. With this assessment in mind, the team designed various programs and cohorts of participants to best support everyone in their creative learning journey. 60 young creatives were divided into groups based on their level of digital media literacy skills. The offered sessions focused on incorporating the technological tools that the participants are already familiar with, such as mobile devices, to eliminate the learning curve of using new tools, thus helping participants to focus on skill development. One of the sources of inspiration for creating media pieces was quarantine itself, where participants took photos with their mobile phones to capture what life in quarantine looks like to them to curate an exhibit called "Quarantine Through My Eyes". 27