This story was filmed during a Human Interest Feature Story contest during the 2025 Student Television Network Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida. The prompt was "Family is Everything" and we had 6 hours to write, film and edit a feature story based on the prompt. While we were driving through Ybor City, we saw a sign that said "1905 Family of Restaurants" and knew that it would be the perfect story. I wrote, reported and coedited this story, which ended up being awarded first place. 

During practice for the STN convention, we were given a prompt by our program advisor. Similar to the national contests, we were given 5 hours to film and edit a story based on the given prompt. We travelled to a local gym looking for a story and found Parish, a man who was on his own fitness journey and gave us the perfect narrative for our story. 

Being asked by the Superintendent of our school, I went into production of this story with a bit of nervousness. I knew it had to be moving and emotional while also including all of the facts.  I normally tend to keep the number of interviews I use around 2 or 3 but faced a challenge in deciding who had more important information to use. In the end I came to the ultimate decision that each of them brought something to the story that could not be left out because it doesn't affect just one person but a whole community of people. I produced, wrote and reported this story to be shown to the Board of Education by our Superintendent. 

Going into my senior year, the school district decided to enforce a new phone policy. Yondr pouches were being introduced to the students and none of us were very happy with it. What teenage student would want to lock their phone in a pouch for an entire day? Knowing that the policy would be enforced anyways, I decided to have a more positive outlook. I wrote, filmed, reported and edited this story to allow students to see the benefits of the Yondr pouches and the damages of excessive phone use in teenage years in hopes that some of the negative reactions would be resolved. 

Wanting to give broadcast students more opportunities to challenge themselves in their work, my program's advisor decided to host an event at Emerson College called the Fall Frenzy. At the beginning of the contest, we were given the prompt "Common Ground". Trying to take a different angle on the story, rather than going to Boston Common like everyone else my group looked at the city as a whole. Writing, reporting and filming this story, we sought the share the idea that the city of Boston is a common ground for anyone to find their place. For this, we were awarded gold standard and were the only group to receive this award. 

This year, in November, my school celebrated World Kindness Week by having the Kindness 101 club set up a table for third party compliments. The idea was sweet and it was a great story to cover. I wrote, reported and edited this story to share with the community how kids at HMHS are able to spread kindness in honor of World Kindness Week. 

The city of Boston has so many different ways of celebrating the holiday season. To showcase the winter spirit in the city, I went with of group of people from my crew to check out Winter Fest. It was a great experience with a lot of very friendly people who were enjoying their time at the event. I wrote and reported this story to share with the community and give the event some publicity.

Going into a new season for my broadcast program, I was looking for a story to get us started. I was led to a candlelight vigil being held in honor of those who have suffered due to addiction and I found myself feeling a personal connection to. I found it extremely important to help spread this story and share the beauty of the vigil with the community. I may not have been on camera but I put my heart into the process of getting this story completed. I wrote, filmed, and edited this story to share with the school and the community. 

While the city celebrates Christmas every year, so do smaller communities such as the Brookville Bible Church. Wanting to spread awareness of the efforts of this church to make people feel welcomed during the holidays, we went and helped them to tell their story. While I was not on camera as the reporter I still wrote, filmed and edited this story.  

I am a part of many different clubs and programs within the school and I have been all throughout my high school career. One of my main focuses has been towards the music program. My passion grew with m music teacher and director until she unfortunately had to leave. HMHS was introduced to a new music teacher but many had not met her yet. In order to introduce and all people to get to know her, I wrote, edited, filmed and reported this story to share with the school. 

This story was found and filmed during a Human Interest Feature Story contest at the 2024 STN Convention.  The prompt was "miracles in the making" and we had 6 hours to  write, film and edit a feature story based on the prompt.  Seeing a dog adoption happening on a sidewalk in Long Beach, California, I knew it would be the perfect story. I wrote, reported and helped to edit this story, ultimately resulting in a third place award.

Being a part of the volleyball team at my school, I found that there were a lot of stories in just that group itself. With no boys' team offered at HMHS, my friend Kyle only had two options. He would either have to give up the sport he loved or play alongside a team of girls. Finding his story intriguing, I produced and reported it to share with the community. It was submitted to STN for their fall nationals without my knowledge and was my first honorable mention award in our broadcast program. 

With Valentines Day coming in hot, everyone was on the topic of relationships. Although most people only look for the beauty of them, there are still many signs and dangers to look out for. DOVE provides services to help spread awareness of domestic violence and abuse in relationships so that teenagers know what to do if something happens to them. Finding this important to share and spread awareness for, I wrote, reported, edited and filmed this story to allow the students to be acquainted with their resources if they found themselves in a time of need. 

This was one of the first stories I ever produced on my own. As I said before, the volleyball team at my school comes with a lot of great stories about character and community. During October the volleyball team got together to host an event called Dig Pink. This event was held as a fundraiser in order to raise money to donate to charities in support of breast cancer research. Although I was new to this form of storytelling, I wrote, reported, filmed and edited this story to encourage people to show up and support the cause.