We are a hive of teenagers, congregating at the Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center in San Francisco with one mission: to Find Truth in Youth.

BAMboozled.org is our vehicle: a web site that publishes our honest lives and illustrates our goal in showing an alternative and more authentic view of teen life. We created BAM to battle the stereotypes set by television and movies on teenage life. What started as a literary web site expanded into a computerized home, laying haven to our artistic impulses and wild opinions. We were artists needing a gallery, musicians needing a record label, filmmakers needing a festival, and writers needing a publisher. All this is what BAMboozled.org now provides. BAM provides a setting where we discover and develop talents for leadership, communication, and implementation. Persistence and compromise makes this work and when success arrives, the pure satisfaction is overwhelming. We are now reaching our individual goals through BAM while pushing forward our team project. BAMboozled.org is more than an afternoon pastime. It is our mission for changing the world.

FUN FACTS

• In 2003 Bamboozled.org was nominated in the 7th Annual Webby Awards!
• In 2002 Bamboozled.org was featured in YM Magazine's September Issue!
• Bamboozled is currently made up of 8 authors, 2 webmasters and 2 youth facilitators who meet each week at the Beacon office.
• The Bamboozled authors have written over 250 articles, reviews, poems and personal stories and the message boards hold over 3000 posts from 350+ teens around the world!
• The BAM team launches new projects all the time from writing contests to "BAM Answers Your Tough Questions". Most recently they launched an Artist Spotlight section where they feature teen artists!

BAMBOOZLED YOUTH VIDEOS

BAMboozled youth have written, filmed and developed two short films through SNBC's Digital Video Workshops.

• Bamboozled - The Video (2001) - Each BAM author had the opportunity of creating their own movie, all of which were then edited together to represent them as a whole.
• Smothered in Cheese, Drowned in Cola (2003) - This humorous and quirky video re-enacts a true-life incident experienced by one of the BAM members.