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Article Thumbnail Youth buying habits: click or brick?
Aug 5, 2011
Web, warehouse or store – they all have their challenges. But where do today’s youth shop for their outdoor gear? To find out, SNEWS Youth Reporter Lorin Paley consulted with college students about their shopping habits.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: How do products get named to catch my eye?
May 4, 2011
Left just with the words on a web page that won’t load as a way to select product, one of the SNEWS Youth Team members begins to wonder: So how do products get names? Do companies think of youth when they do the naming? Lorin Paley talks to a few to satisfy her curiosity.
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Article Thumbnail Middle school gets taste of outdoor journalism in class taught by former SNEWS editor
Feb 18, 2011
This past fall, middle schoolers at an Alabama middle school took part on a nine-week outdoor journalism course taught by former SNEWS senior editor Marcus Woolf. The course culminated with the students writing about their impressions of the class, which SNEWS is proud to share here, officially making the kids published reporters.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer 101: A SNEWS Youth Team ‘newbie’ look at the show
Feb 7, 2011
Remember your first trade show experience? For some of us, it was a long time ago. So we tapped into a member of our SNEWS Youth Advisory & Reporting Team to get a newbie’s perspective on attending Outdoor Retailer for the first time. See what our youth-on-the-scene spied from the show aisles to the hotel lobbies -- in between scoring free food, beer and gear.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: Buying motivation
Jan 10, 2011
Everybody wants to know what influences and motivates millennials to open their wallets. So we asked our SNEWS Youth Advisory & Reporting Team (YART) and a few Outdoor Nation (ON) Ambassadors for a short story in our SNEWS Winter 2011 magazine to tell us what affects their decisions about products or brands. Here you’ll read expanded answers.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team member working with younger at-risk kids featured in news blog
Nov 17, 2010
Although only working as an environmental educator for a year, Anthony Shaheen, an inaugural member of the SNEWS Youth Advisory & Reporting Team, has wasted no time making a few perhaps unwanted waves in his quest to get even younger kids into the outdoors. He shares with SNEWS some publicity about a program he runs for at-risk youth.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: Three CEOs weigh in with youth reporters
Sep 1, 2010
SNEWS Youth Reporting Team members interviewed top executives of three large companies -- Prana, adidas and Vibram -- at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2010 about issues that are most important to youth: sustainability, price, quality, the effect of tough times, health and, of course, style.
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Youth Team: Q&A; with teen mountaineer Matthew Moniz
Aug 27, 2010
Matthew Moniz is one 13-year-old who has already started accumulating quite a climbing resume, having reached the summits of several high-altitude peaks. Besides a passion for the outdoors, he's also raising funds and awareness for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Members of our SNEWS Youth Reporting Team interviewed Moniz to get his take on how to get more youth recreating outdoors.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market '10: SNEWS Youth BOB Awards
Aug 18, 2010
A new category this year, the Youth BOB Award winners were picked by members of the inaugural SNEWS Youth Reporting Team at ORSM 2010. The youth team members -- 19-26 years old -- were set free to pick what booths they thought were “best” for reasons they considered important to them. See what they had to say.
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