Progress

I am happy to say that things are moving along with the planning of our National High School Competition. Ryan, Kate and I had a meeting with Mike, Keith and some other RJI people on Monday to generate ideas about the competition that I think were really helpful. One of the most important things that happened out of that meeting was that we bounced ideas off of each other about what we want the actual competition to look like.

We decided that it should be more content opposed to form based, which I think is a great idea because I don't think high schoolers will be as technologically advanced as college students and this will make for a more interesting competition for them. I'm very excited about the prospects of this idea. I think it's going to be great! I think the storytelling element is going to prove very successful and I'm eager to see what these high schoolers come up with. This would definitely have been a project I would have loved to work on in high school.

As far as what else we accomplished this week, we also wrote a survey for high school journalism teachers to take. We hope that this will help us get to know high schoolers and their skill level better. We hope that this survey will be sent out by the end of the day today. This will also be the first of several surveys.

So, I think we made some good progress this past week and I hope that continues in the weeks to come! I'm really excited for the prospects of this competition though. I think it's going to turn out great!