Opportunities from HS Insider

HS Insider Team,

We hope you had a fun and eventful week. We’ve got a bunch of announcements to cover, so we’ll start with reminders.

Reminders

- Attached you will find the 2015 HS Insider Summer Internship Application. Some key dates to note: your application must be emailed to varsityvideo@latimes.com by Friday, April 17^th at 11:59pm PST. Please read the application carefully before emailing Kyle with questions. (It is in the shared documents folder in Drive.)

- This April 18^th and 19^th is the LA Times Festival of Books. HS Insider will have a booth, and we’re looking for volunteers to work with Kyle that day to help run it and spread the word about HS Insider. Thank you so much to all the volunteers who signed up last night. As of now, we have two spots open for shift 1 & 2 along with one spot open for Shift 4. Email Kyle if you would like to join!

                Shift 1: Saturday 11am-3pm             Shift 2: Saturday 3pm-6pm

                Shift 3: Sunday 10am-2pm                Shift 4: Sunday 2pm-5pm

-Tired of repeating all the cool stuff you’re doing with HS Insider at family functions over and over again!? Help them sign up for the Family & Friends newsletter so they can stay up to date with the great work you’re doing. You can find the sign up form here. You can forward this email on to family and friends or send them the sign up link.

State Write-Offs Bring Success

Congratulations to Steven Montoya, copy editor, for his first place honors in editorial writing at the Southern California Journalism Education Association state write-off on Saturday, March 21 at Rancho Dominguez Prep School in Long Beach.

Here is a link to a video of Steven's name being announced.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0Jfp7zwNRMIVlhhb3IyYk50Wm8&authuser=0
It was taken by John Shrader, from Cal State Long Beach, who delivered the keynote address.

Also contributing to Hollywood's placing fifth in the newspaper sweepstakes were Vanessa Centeno, fifth place sports; Franklin Franco, sixth place news; and Erika Salazar, tenth place, news. There were 25 schools competing from all over Southern California.