WE DREAM Academy Summer Career Experience

WE DREAM Academy partners with Essex County Donald M Payne Sr. School of Technology to provide training for youth in AV Stage Technician Assistant Careers.  


Youth from Essex County & Newark Summer Youth Employment programs get hands-on On-The-Job Training for careers behind the scenes of great arts and entertainment productions.

WE DREAM Academy Summer Youth Work Experience Program


WE DREAM Academy partners with Essex County Donald M Payne Sr. School of Technology to provide training for youth in AV Stage Technician Assistant Careers.  


Youth from Essex County & Newark Summer Youth Employment programs get hands-on On-The-Job Training for careers behind the scenes of great arts and entertainment productions.

THE SPECTACULAR WORLD OF ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Join us as we close out our 6 week 

Summer Youth Work Experience training Program.


Our interns earned a salary as they explored the world of arts and entertainment production.  Each intern experienced the behind the scenes work necessary to put on a great production as they earned a Level 1 certificate of completion as an:

  "AV Stage Techni

Join us as we close out our 6 week 

Summer Youth Work Experience training Program.


Our interns earned a salary as they explored the world of arts and entertainment production.  Each intern experienced the behind the scenes work necessary to put on a great production as they earned a Level 1 certificate of completion as an:

  "AV Stage Technician Assistant"


Join them along with our Culinary (Farm to Table) display and our Fashion Designers displays


Our Community Partners

  • Essex County DOL
  • The City of Newark
  • WE DREAM Academy
  • Essex County Donald M. Payne Sr. School of Technology

Arts & Entertainment Production

Audio Video Stage Technician Assistants 

Video

Setting pan controls for a microphone

Interns learn the signal path a microphone signal takes in an analog audio mixer, and then set the pan in the stereo field

Setting The Stage

Interns assemble a 16' X 12' stage with an 8' X 8' drum riser included for the drummer

Quick Jam after stage setup

Interns test out the freshly built stage setup

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What our Summer workers learned how to do in our 6-week "AV Stage Technician" training course.  Strike an entire stage, and rebuild it for our final closing performance.