What To Write In A Yearbook

Student journalists ready for fair

The parade will stage at the Front Street Learning Center, go left on Neill Avenue, right on Last Chance Gulch , right on 6th Avenue, right on Fuller Avenue and end on Fuller and Neill. All animals will cross Neill Avenue to the staging area at Front Street Learning Center when finished. Awards Ceremony at L & C Fairgrounds Exhibit Hall at 6 p.m. after the parade. Beartooth NBC in Helena is organizing the parade this year. For more information, go to  www.beartoothnbc.com/community/fair/index.1.html .

A group of local high school students are spending this week getting a taste of newspaper and online journalism. While they bring with them a set of varied skills, all seven teenagers offer a youthful perspective with an eagerness to learn.

For nearly a decade the Independent Record has hired a team of young writers, photographers, and in more recent years, videographers, in a partnership with the Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds and Montana RV Center, to write, shoot and produce complete coverage of the Last Chance Stampede and Fair happenings. Each day readers can see photographs and read stories delivered to their front door or at the click of a mouse watch student produced videos.

Andy Anderson, Hunter Feiss, Hilary Nelson, Laura Marsh, Olivia Keith, Keegan Kier and Kayla Robertson are this year’s staff for the Stampede Standard. They gather daily in a “newsroom” at the fairgrounds where they work with professional journalists to tell the stories that unfold throughout the week.

The fair is a landmark summertime event bringing animals, action packed rodeos and hundreds of vendors for visitors to enjoy. This year’s theme, “Fair Gone Wild,” kicks off today with a parade in Downtown Helena (1 p.m.) and a nighttime concert with country music star Joe Nichols. The student writers begin today by covering the parade.

Nelson and Keith are two returning Stampede Standard staffers. Nelson recently graduated from Helena High and Keith will graduate this coming spring.

Nelson enjoys the playful atmosphere the fair offers. She said it was last year’s experience where she found a new interest in photojournalism. She also enjoyed growing as a writer and videographer as she faced looming deadlines. This fall, she plans to move to Walla Walla, Wash., and study biology at Whitman College.

“I like shooting the people,” Nelson said. “I love getting expressions on their faces. There are so many different types of people so there’s a lot of different subject matter to capture.

Write-up FAQ's - AEGIS 2012

A: Regardless of reason, if you submit your write-up after the August 7 deadline, but within the extension period, your write-up will still be included in the yearbook. However, you will not be able preview the edited version of your write-up before it is published in the yearbook. On the other hand, if you submit after the extension period, we will no longer accept your write-up. Instead, you will have a generic write-up in order to fill the space allotted for your write-up. A: If you submit your write-up before August 7, we will e-mail you and ask you to cut down your write-up, which you have to submit on or before August 7. If you submit your write-up on August 7 or during the extension period, we will cut down your write-up without your consent. Furthermore, you will not be given the privilege to preview the edited write-up before it is published in the yearbook. Q:What if I am in the process of taking up a minor, hence I place it in my write-up submission, but I am unable to achieve the minimum grade requirement at the end of the 2nd semester, therefore I do not graduate with that minor, should the minor program still be placed in my write-up? Is there a way of removing it if in case I do not graduate with it anyway?