Student journalists from Palo Alto High School are promoting journalism to a younger, elementary and middle school-aged audience with the Palo Alto Youth Journalism Convention, a 2.5-hour workshop that held its first session Saturday morning.
According to junior Maria Uribe, one of the event organizers, the event brought in pre-high school students to learn about Paly journalism with a hands-on experience.
“We hosted fourth to eighth graders in the MAC [Media Arts Center] and ran some journalism workshops,” Uribe said. “We just wanted to foster a journalistic spirit within the younger kids.”
At the event, representatives of each Paly journalism class ran workshops where attendees practiced making magazine covers and news, feature, and broadcast stories.
Junior Zoe Ferring, another one of the organizers, said she was happy with the result of the event.
“My favorite part was making the rounds of all the stations and being able to see the kids interacting with each other, having fun, but also learning new things from other Paly students and journalists,” Ferring said. “It was really exciting and inspiring to see them potentially be interested in doing this themselves when they are old enough to join Paly journalism.”
