Looking for new and interesting projects can often mean reading your local paper or recognizing opportunities that may have always been in front of you. Two great successes HTV students enjoyed are great examples of this. A very special camp for cancer survivors called Camp Bluebird gave us the opportunity. It takes place twice a year, once in the spring, once in the fall. In the spring of 1995 a dozen Hillcrest broadcasting students, all juniors selected for the next year's advanced class, did a documentary about the people and the activities that make Camp Bluebird something special. It was an eye-opening, tender experience that became one of the best programs ever produced at Hillcrest. The lessons learned in the production of the show were many: listen when you interview, shoot sequences, shoot tight shots, pay attention to sound, work as a team, do accurate logs of your footage, and understand transitional elements. These are some of the great things you learn when you produce a documentary. In the spring of 2005 the HTV staff decided to update a show produced ten years earlier, "The Invincible Teen." The new version debuted in May of '05 with stories concentrating on the same theme as the original--the risky behavior of teenagers. This was the first "remake" of an HTV special edition from the past, and it proved to be a huge but rewarding challenge. The in-depth segments looked at drug use, casual attitudes about sex, gossip, truency, poor nutritional habits, and a very frank examination of how pop culture has desensitized an entire generation.