Steve, thanks for the post on the Association of Science-Technology Center's
YouthALIVE! program.  I'm sure there are more programs out there like
YouthALIVE!.  Here are more ideas on providing EDUCATION and
OUTREACH to multicultural groups and exposing children to the possibility of
museum careers:

Participate in valuable and much needed e-mail discussions like this one.

Keep an open mind, be proactive, be willing and able and someone
mentioned "love" a few messages back, it does make the world go round.

See museums through children's eyes.

Create a coloring book with includes people of color in administrative
and curatorial positions working in museums.

Provide inter-active resources for teachers in their yearly celebration
of Museum Week or Month.

Create a web page for Latino Network Professional Interest Committee
(LNPIC) of the American Association of Museums (an adult and a
children's version), and link it up to educational networks.

Sponsor a yearly planning session and job fair on recruiting people of
color for museum and cultural heritage centers.  Have representation from all
groups.  Believe it or not journalists of color are planning a UNITY
conference for sometime near the turn of the century.  Museum people
can surely do the same.

Create and widely distribute a brochure of the Latino Network
Professional Interest Committee (LNPIC) of the American Association
of Museums, in addition do the same for all groups of color if those
organizations exist.

Create a directory of people of color in administrative and curatorial
positions to include innovative resources such as the YouthALIVE! program.

Publish an article of the Latino Network Professional Interest Committee
(LNPIC) of the American Association of Museums in national publications like
VISTA and other magazines which reach Latino audiences.

I know there are more ideas out there.  Remember, we discussing OUTREACH
at this point.  But feel free to change lanes.

Miguel