CMI 2020 Annual Report

Community Outreach
High School Media Day - Fall Photos
Fall 2019 Participating High Schools:
• Freedom Area High School
• Mount Pleasant Area High School
• Bethel Park High School
• Pine-Richland High School
• Penn-Trafford High School
• Blackhawk High School
• Corry Middle/High School
• North Allegheny High School
• Shenango High School
• Avonworth High School
• Eden Christian Academy
• Allegheny Intermediate Unit
Photo by Stacey Federoff
Members of U-View, Point Park University’s student-run television station, lead a hands-on exercise with
local high school students in the CMI’s TV Studio.
Photo by Stacey Federoff
Public relations professor Bob O’Gara talks with a student during
his High School Media Day session on “Telling Your School’s Story.”
Fall 2019 Sessions and Leaders:
• PSPA Regional Journalism Contest
• Visual Effects with animation and visual effects professor
Jonathan Trueblood
• Podcast production with staff of student radio station
WPPJ
• Newswriting with staff of student newspaper The Globe
• TV production with staff of student TV station U-View
• Turning Your Passion Into A Career with local
professional photographers Brian Cook and Martha Rial
• Finding Story Ideas Where “Nothing” Happens with local
journalists Jamie Martines and Sonja Reis
• Using Public Relations to Tell Your School’s Story with
public relations professor Bob O’Gara
Photo by Stacey Federoff
Photo by Stacey Federoff
Photo by Stacey Federoff
Students listen to a presentation by professional photographers
Brian Cook and Martha Rial as they talk about what makes a great
High School students prepare to draw a picture for a public
relations exercise during a session led by Point Park PR professor
Members of the student-run WPPJ radio station talk to local high
school students about podcast production.
photograph.
Bob O’Gara.
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