Camp will be held July 13-24, 2026 from 9am-noon.
Application deadline is Friday, April 24, 2026.
See below how you can apply.
Want to apply? Email to summercamp@wyes.org your name, contact details, along with a short paragraph (150 words max.) on what you hope to learn from this camp. Include a link to a video sample of your work, if possible.
In 2025, WYES hosted students from Frederick A. Douglass High School, Ben Franklin High School, Hahnville High School, New Harmony High, New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), Northshore High School, Riverdale High School and St. Augustine High School.
Camp is led by local educator and broadcasting veteran Mary Jackson.
During the two weeks in 2025 WYES Digital Media Summer Camp the students experienced the following:
Week 1: The week kicked off with tours of WYES’ facilities and the students were able to sit down with WYES producer Peggy Scott Laborde, WYES media & technology Coordinator Calvin Barrett, WYES director of production and event services Tam Kady and WWLTV’s Brandon Walker.
Week 2: Campers had the chance to meet and chat with Chef Dook Chase on his kitchen set of DOOK CHASE: A CHEF’S JOURNEY airing in Spring 2026. Lucy Bustamante, Fox8’s morning news anchor, and Margaret Crosby, a freelance social media contributor to DOOK CHASE: A CHEF’S JOURNEY, shared valuable insight and practical tips for future careers in media. STEPPIN’ OUT host Peggy Scott Laborde, along with the show’s weekly theater critic Alan Smason, welcomed the students on set. Campers videoed the sweetest little duo—an adorable puppy and kitten, adoptable through Animal Rescue New Orleans (ARNO), which they will use to create social media posts.
Students continue to work on segments which will be featured on WYES’ YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@wyestv
