Each year in March over spring break we take our advanced news staff, the students responsible for HTV Magazine, on a major trip abroad. These trips have added an extra incentive for students who are trying to earn their way onto our news staff, and they've all been very educational. Beginning in 1994, we've visited London, Los Angeles, the Caribbean, New York City, and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
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A group of 19 HHS broadcasting students visited London, England for ten
days to do a show about teenage life in the U.K. We spent hours on the
streets of London and in the homes of locals to find out about
lifestyles, cultural differences, and what it meant to be 17 and living
in London. This trip was the catalyst for a new tradition at Hillcrest. |
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Additional trips have included our visits to Chicago, San Francisco,
Phoenix, Seattle, St. Louis and Kansas City for JEA/NSPA national
conventions. Students frequently pay for the entire trip through several fundraisers and special projects produced out of the Broadcasting room. |
One of our favorites was a 12-minute video about the Missouri Victim's Center, which they used at their fund-raising breakfast in the spring of 1997. It was a great cause, and the students involved earned money for our trip to New York. Special projects can also include something we will be initiating in the fall of this year - a comedy/variety show from Hillcrest.
Students in Broadcast II Production are making plans for regular shows. It's our way of featuring talented students from our school who aren't necessarily in the broadcast classes; kind of a talent show on TV. Special projects like this are a continuing source of motivation for students, especially the ones who are not leaning toward a journalism career, but have an avid interest in the medium of television.
