Summer Program

Viral Content Creation

Grades 9 & up • Free with a Learning Membership

What does it take to create viral videos, build a social media following, and turn your hobbies and interests into your career or side hustle? Find out in our Viral Content Creation program featuring live StarCourse events, recorded mini-lessons, and weekly challenges from a group of social media influencers with over 35 million combined followers.

Featuring content from:

Phil Cook
@chemteacherphil
3.9M Followers
Chemist

Coyote Peterson
@BraveWilderness
20.6M Followers
Explorer

Audrey Hopkins
@auditydraws
13.7M Followers
Artist

Included in Viral Content Creation:

Weekly Classes

In this program, learners will meet weekly with an expert instructor and a small group of peers to dive deep into techniques and activities designed to help students start and develop their channels.

Live Member-Only Events

Students will participate in exclusive live Members-Only events with online influencers to gain skills in storytelling, marketing, social media awareness, and the visual arts.

Viral Content Creation Challenge

What better way to learn about viral videos than to go viral? Students will be able to participate in the Viral Content Challenge by starting their own channel!

Weekly Live Class Topics

Week One: Finding Your Niche and Building Your Brand

Students will explore the path from a consumer of social media to finding their own niche, building their brand and starting their own influencer channel.

Week Two: Creativity & Content Creation

This week, students will explore the important steps from a general idea to turning that concept into content that they script, film, edit, and ultimately deliver to the audience.

Week Three: The Art of Storytelling

This week, students will learn the importance of storytelling and how to create compelling content that is succinct but meaningful to the audience.

Week Four: Video Editing

How do creators make those amazing videos? This week, students learn the important skill of video editing and start to build skills to turn them into editing experts.

Week Five: The Art of Engagement

This week, students learn the importance of the "science" of social media. They will learn how to engage an audience but also, skills to maintain a healthy outlook while interacting with online activity.

Week Six: Supercharge Your Social

What do hashtags do? How does an algorithm work? This week dives deeper into how to supercharge a social media channel for ultimate success.

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Viral Content Creation
• Typically 9-12 students per class.
• 6 weeks of curated class content.
• 1.5 hours of live instruction per week.

"This is such a fun and helpful resource for our schooling adventure! We have learned some really fun things that we wouldn't normally be able to dive into on our own. So grateful for the work that goes into this program!!"

— Jessica, Parent

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