Real Skills, Real Stories, Real Opportunity.
Twan’s Eagle Watch is an emerging
Tech Arts & Media training program led
by founder Twan Woods, with a focus on
real-world AV traning and environmental
storytelling.
A Tech Arts & Media program empowering youth through music, media, and technology-training real-world skills while documenting conservation and telling stories that impact lives.
Connect ecological restoration with human experience, empowering youth and communities through podcasting. media production, and environmental storytelling.
Build a sustainable,community-based pathway for young creators, engineers, and storytellers-preparing them to lead with purpose and protect what matters.
Twan’s Eagle Watch · Youth Emerging Technology Program
TAM Academy
Tech Arts & Media. Real skills, real responsibility, and real stories—built by the next generation.
The future of the work is the young people.
History matters. The river matters. The eagles matter. But none of it continues unless young people learn the tools, find their voice, and take their place in the story.
TAM Academy connects emerging technology, media production, and environmental storytelling. Young people do not stand on the sidelines—they learn through real responsibility, real equipment, field observation, teamwork, and completed productions.
Skills connected to purpose.
Connect ecological restoration with human experience by giving young people practical experience in media production, podcasting, music, and environmental storytelling.
A pathway for the next generation.
Build a sustainable community-based pathway that develops the next generation of creators, producers, engineers, and digital media professionals.
The tools become real in the field.
Explore the river and wildlife young people document, the community stories and media they help preserve, the current work they can join, and the ways partners can support TAM Academy.
Technology with purpose.
Storytelling with impact.
Twan’s Eagle Watch Emerging Technology Program
Young people gain practical experience with cameras, audio systems, live production, editing tools, podcasting, digital workflows, and the technologies shaping modern communication.
Tech Arts & Media Program
Young creators use those tools to document conservation, interview community members, produce music and media, and tell stories that connect ecological restoration with human experience.
Learn it. Use it. Tell it. Lead.
Learn
Understand the equipment, the production process, field safety, and the responsibility of telling a true story.
Practice
Build skills through guided exercises with real cameras, microphones, interviews, research, and editing tools.
Produce
Join a working crew, accept a role, solve problems together, and help complete a real media project.
Lead
Use experience to guide others, strengthen the community, and carry the river’s story forward.
Real responsibilities.
Real tools. Real stories.
Open a role to see what a young person learns, what they are responsible for, and how their work supports the full production.
01Camera Operators
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02Audio Technicians
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03Directors
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04Journalists
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05Interviewers
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06Story Producers
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07Media Creators
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08Environmental Observers
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Young people do more than watch.
They research, observe, interview, record, direct, edit, and deliver. Projects such as Hidden in Plain Sight demonstrate how environmental learning becomes field documentation, camera work, audio, and conservation-centered storytelling.
Watch the youth filmsHelp the next generation tell the next chapter.
TAM Academy needs people who can share knowledge, open doors, provide equipment and opportunities, support training, and believe that Washington’s young people belong behind the camera, at the controls, and in leadership.
Real Responsibility. Real Tools. Real Stories.
Young people do more than watch demonstrations. They take part in actual productions while learning to observe the environment, ask questions, document evidence, and tell stories with purpose.
Hidden in Plain Sight
The completed youth documentaries show how environmental learning becomes research, interviews, field documentation, camera work, audio, and conservation-centered storytelling.
TAM CREATIVE SESSIONS
Ava & James — 3-Song Pilot 2026
CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT
A developing three-song creative collaboration exploring community, humanity, the natural environment, and original artist expression through songwriting, arrangement, recording, production, and documentary storytelling.
Ava and James are Howard University students participating independently as emerging artists and creative collaborators. TAM Creative Sessions is not an official Howard University program or partnership.
Community Story Coming Soon
The Work Continues.
