The Bobby Hawthorne Experience is set apart from other offered courses at MIPA, as it is taught at a faster pace in an advanced journalistic setting. Hawthorne, the author of the journalism textbook The Radical Write and a MIPA veteran, said he eases his students into increasingly challenging techniques as the week goes on. “So far we’ve covered finding stories and voice and … [Read more...] about Students in Bobby Hawthorne Experience get increasingly more challenging projects
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Humans of MIPA
With an attendance of over three hundred high school students at this year's MIPA Summer Workshop, MSU has also seen over three hundred new, unique backstories and histories arrive on campus. As you spend your week here at Michigan State, take a look at some of the amazing profiles behind the people that you may be attending class or eating lunch … [Read more...] about Humans of MIPA
Jeremy Whiting goes behind the scenes
Jeremy Whiting, Executive Producer for the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s (MIPA) 2014 summer workshop, can be seen running around campus, interviewing students from various class to compile a promotional video for next year’s camp. Whiting has had a strong love for journalism since high school where he took newspaper with Kirk Weber at Lake Orion High School. … [Read more...] about Jeremy Whiting goes behind the scenes
Revels returns to Michigan to take on the camera
Milan Revels is the sole broadcaster at Michigan Interscholastic Press Association’s (MIPA) 2014 summer workshop who traveled over 780 miles to attend. The senior at Lakeview Academy is originally from Detroit but has lived just outside of Atlanta, GA in Johns Creek since the age of 5. Revels returns to Michigan every summer and stays with her Nana in Southfield, which is a … [Read more...] about Revels returns to Michigan to take on the camera
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 long summer. She continues with a list of do’s and don'ts of yearbook design. “I’m gonna show them how they can take different components--different parts of a page and modify them really … [Read more...] about Yearbook designers perfect their skills