Photography
Participants in each community are given a camera and learn how to use it with intention to express their ideas. Working with skilled professional photographers, youth learn a variety of comprehensive skills from taking photographs and developing film, to making exhibit quality prints. These photographs are then displayed and sold in numerous exhibits across Baltimore City .

Billboards
The Youthlight program provides youth in each neighborhood access to Macintosh computers to learn Photoshop software to create magazines, business cards, newsletters, and book layouts utilizing their own images. Youthlight participants also design media messages to address a problem they would like to change in their community or highlight a positive aspect of their community. Youth do all aspects of the design from initial concept, photography, to final layout. The finished PSA designs are then shown on actual billboards in their communities and around Baltimore City. Students have designed and exhibited over eight Billboard PSA's throughout Baltimore highlighting the positive power of youth in city communities.

Media Literacy
The project also gives youth a chance to investigate issues of social justice, community, and the media's influence on their lives through discussions with guest speakers, inventive exercises, and by an in-depth examination of the media images that vie for their attention. Youth gain an understanding of how media messages and their context can deceive or influence us by examining newspapers, magazines, and other media outlets learning how ads use images to communicate their message and the more subtle elements and intentions that may lie hidden within images.