Last summer Stoked Mentoring got some funding from Nike 6.0 and brought 12 students from inner-city Los Angeles to Huntington Beach each week of the summer. While there they learned to surf and collaborated on a magazine called STOKED.
The 16 page mag reflects their personal stories and how Stoked has helped transform their lives. Besides an introduction to journalism and photography, the students surfed with Nike 6.0 athletes, scored VIP treatment at the US Open and broadcasted the story of Stoked to the world via the event webcast.
Isn’t it nice how Nike 6.0 gets us to post their stuff by doing something cool for Stoked Mentoring? We fall for it every time. Then again, if they were really preparing the kids for the future wouldn’t they have worked together to build a website rather than a magazine?
Follow the jump for the rest of the story and photos from the summer. 
Nike 6.0 partnered with Stoked to bring community, creativity and access to sport to the Motel No Tell through the program 6.0 Days of Stoked. Twelve students from inner-city Los Angeles paid weekly visits to Huntington Beach for the duration of summer where they learned to surf and collaborated as a team to build the first ever STOKED Magazine.
The 16 page mag reflects their personal stories and how Stoked has helped transform their lives. Besides an introduction to journalism and photography, the students surfed with Nike 6.0 athletes, scored VIP treatment at the US Open and broadcasted the story of Stoked to the world via the event webcast.
Their voice was so loud, it inspired contest winner, Evan Geiselman, to donate his winnings to Stoked Mentoring, so the program can grow and impact more lives. The magazine printing was donated generously by Transworld Business Magazine
The Stoked Crew.
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