Episode 34: Try And Stop Us

The fall 2012 RadioActive students just completed their eight-week workshop where they learned how to make radio stories for the first time. In this podcast, we're featuring several of their incredible stories about triumphing over tough times:

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Credit KUOW Photo/Jason Pagano

RadioActive's fall 2012 graduates at the South Park Community Center. Clockwise from left: Lovely-Frances Domingo (South Park Community Center coordinator), Keilon Anderson, Trey Tuito'Elau, Evan Adams, Antonia Dorn, Kadian Vanloo, Jenny Asarnow (RadioActive instructor), Nathan Friend (RadioActive instructor), Dulce Saucedo

• A 15-year-old girl accidentally burns her house down. Now she's trying to pick her life up from the ashes. She shares her deeply personal story.
• A teenage girl loves to care for children with cancer at Seattle Children's Hospital. But the help goes both ways — she has a rare form of leukemia herself.
• A high school teacher tells a Samoan student that he's only good at football. The student channels his anger at that teacher into a documentary about the stereotypes Samoans face.

Ellie Garcia takes on the challenge of hosting solo — a first for RadioActive! She shares the story of her tough time getting to South Park Community Center, where the fall workshop was held.

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