The New England High School Journalism Collaborative is excited to announce that we will hold our all-expense paid summer workshop for students interested in journalism for the 33rd year. The 2020 workshop will be from June 20 to 27. Students selected for the program will be housed at Regis College in Weston, Mass., and will work from a newsroom at Simmons University in Boston. Students will work with professional reporters, photographers and designers from New England news organizations. They will learn to report, write and edit for a newspaper, and produce multimedia projects for a website. They will be sent out on assignments in the Boston area and will be exposed to working on a deadline to create their own newspaper. Interested students can apply by filling out an online application. Students also need to email a headshot to Christine Panek at c.panek@nenpa.com and send a hard-copy transcript and teacher recommendation by mail to the address below. The deadline for applications is March 2. Materials should be mailed to: NEHSJC, c/o New England Newspaper and Press Association, 1 Arrow Drive, 2nd Floor, Woburn, MA 01801. For more information on our organization, visit nehsjc.org.
Selected from thousands of entries nationwide, Merrimack Valley High School in Penacook has been named a New Hampshire state winner in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Contest for its proposed plan to address overall waste. The contest encourages teachers and students to solve real-world issues in their community using classroom skills in science, technology, engineering and math. Merrimack Valley High School is among the nation’s 100 state winners and will receive $15,000 in technology for its achievement. In addition, the school will also receive a Samsung video kit for students to create and submit a three-minute video that showcases their project development and how it addresses the issue.