The IMS Teaching Artist Residency officially kicked off in October 2024 and is entering its 3rd year with a new cohort for 2026-2027!. The goal the Artist Residency is to offer paid teaching opportunities and professional arts education experience for Pittsburg Prodigy Alumni. The Residency period will last September to March each year, and will take place in P205 at Pittsburg High School after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays

The IMS Monthly cipher is IMS's flagship program. It is a free, public, bilingual, open-mic style event that will provide a responsive, safe, educational, and inspirational space for local youth rappers and poets. The event will permit any local youth rapper or poet to sign up to perform for a crowd made up of community and students from neighboring schools. The event will feature a community teach-in or bulletin period, an open-mic period, and then a freestyle cipher period specifically for rappers and musicians

Come through every Tuesday and Thursday at lunch and after school to room P205 to write, spit, and sharpen your skills with the greatest creative talent in the Bay. Join the team and become part of our familia. Currently available to PUSD students only.

The ANNUAL PRODIGIES GRAND SLAM is the first ever youth poetry slam in Pittsburg! This is a youth only, professionally judged poetry competition for all Bay Area Youth Poets willing to step to this mic! Occurs every year in late fall

Our Annual Prodigies Showcase is a non-competitive, high-caliber showcase that puts our artists center stage. Every year we feature a cross-section of young rappers, poets, and recent alumni. Occurs every year in late spring

n addition to our many successful programs in Pittsburg, the prodigies have experienced traveling across the country to engage in what we call in the arts community Cultural and Artistic Diplomacy. through Cultural diplomacy. Students engage in master classes, workshops, collaborative performances, poetry slams, and rap competitions with other youths from around the world. In October 2023 we were invited to the University of Wisconsin–Madison Office of Multicultural Arts Initiatives (OMAI) 17th annual Passing the Mic Intergenerational Hip Hop Theater Festival (PtM) in Madison, Wisconsin. We have since been invited to Trinidad and Tobago and to Washington DC for the most prestigious youth poetry festival in the world, Brave New Voices. We sent 12 youths and 2 chaperones to UW Madison. In 2024 we sent 8 youth and 2 chaperones to Brave New Voices in Washington DC. in 2025 we traveled to UW Madison for our 2nd BNV appearance, and in 2026 we made oure 3rd national appearance at BNV Bay Area.