Megan

megangage
Megan Gage was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Somehow, by some fateful chain of events, she came to live in San Jose, California where she now attends school at Evergreen Valley High School as a junior. She is a SMASH scholar, as well as a member of the elite group of smashcasters. She is working on maintaining her GPA, participating in sports and making her community a better place, whether it be by volunteering, or by informing you on current problems and happenings of the world.

 

Shadow on the Olympics

Shadow on the Olympics

February 20, 2010 in Current Affairs, Discussion, Featured, Opinion by megangage

Winter is upon us in full swing and many expectant sports fanatics know what that means: the Winter Olympics. Many will tune in to NBC, the sole network with the rights to air the 2010 Olympics, to watch figure skating, downhill skiing and curling, as well as some of their other favorite snow-time sports; but among the snowboarding and hockey, there is a deeper issue plaguing this year’s festivities.

New News at Smashcast!

New News at Smashcast!

January 17, 2010 in Opinion by megangage

Hi,

This is Derek, I wasn’t here last weekend with smashcast, so I missed out on the first day back. I’ve been updated with the new projects and other smashcast secrets waiting for us to reveal soon! As Selina mentioned we’re busy with Ice Story videos from our Exploratorium visit back in April, One Web Day videos for the big day on September 22, and getting ready for the Momentum Conference event in San Francisco that will take place on the 7th-9th that we will be documenting and producing some media of what happens.

New Background

New Background

January 16, 2010 in Web/Tech by megangage

As you may have noticed, smashcast has been doing a bit of renovating. Not only have we moved to this new amazing website, but we’ve alo been trying to edit this website to reflect the smashcasters a bit more. At todays meeting, I was fooling around in photoshop a bit, trying to find the perfect backgroung for the new site. 

Prom Night In Mississippi

Prom Night In Mississippi

January 11, 2010 in Featured, Social Change, Video by megangage

In this day and age, where equality is the word of the year, can it be true that America is still holding on to the racist roots of its previous generations? Although it may be a hard fact to face, places, like Charleston, Mississippi, continue the abomination that is racial segregation. In this interview, we talk to two of the students from Charleston High School in Mississippi, where, believe it or not, they still hold segregated proms!