The Upstart

Students learn how confidence plays key role in leadership

Discussions about leadership highlighted the opening hours of Pam Bunka’s course at the 2019 MIPA summer journalism workshop.Bunka started the class by having the students read about what leadership means […]

Students excited to see different perspectives in yearbook class

According to Ava Butzu, the instructor for the “Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge” class, her goal is to teach students how to take a theme and develop it to […]

MIPA’s Advanced Yearbook Design class discuss theme

Advanced Yearbook Design instructor Lydia Cardena describes why theme is so important for a successful yearbook. Students also discuss their themes for their upcoming yearbooks and what they believe defines […]

Yearbook designers perfect their skills

Advanced yearbook design instructor Lydia Cadena starts her class figuring out where everyone is at with InDesign. The students then dabble into some basic design as a refresher for the […]

Yearbook Kickstart documents the week

Yearbook kickstart is no doubt a great class. I walked into the classroom to be greeted by Mrs. Bunka standing on a table showing the class how to take different […]

Yearbook students, instructors emphasize importance of theme

All week at the MIPA Summer Workshop, yearbook editors and staff members have attempted to think up an original theme for the upcoming year’s publication. But as they lay awake […]

Advanced InDesign helps yearbook students refine their publications

It’s midway through the MIPA workshop and yearbook students are working hard to create pages for their school’s publication, Advanced InDesign for Yearbook instructor Lydia Cadena said. Her class has been […]

A Yearbook Lasts Forever

Sandy Strall’s Complete Yearbook class is focusing on capturing a full school year and telling a story through the yearbook. “A yearbook is the only published record of that school […]

“Edge” Students Take a New Approach to Yearbook Design

In Lori Oglesbee’s Taking Your Yearbook to the Edge class, students are already busy brainstorming ideas for next year’s yearbooks. “We’re working on developing our yearbook theme,” yearbook student Sierra […]