The Dayton
Regional STEM School’s DRSS Newsroom has been hard at work learning about journalism
and creating stories for the school’s newspaper. With the guidance of Mr.
Grieve, the group has been able to create many stories to cover the events at
the school, as well as the work of our amazing students. The students have now
taken that experience to launch their own website and newsroom, called “TheSTEM Inquirer.” The STEM Inquirer is a student newspaper to not only cover
school events, but also have content from a student perspective.
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| The STEM Inquirer is the first-ever student newspaper at DRSS and is the creation of Mr. Grieve Journalism class |
The process of
creating The STEM Inquirer began with the students identifying their areas of
interest to fill the various roles. The main role, the Editor-In-Chief, Alex T. Smith, is the person who has final say on all stories that are published, as well
as organize all of the different students to ensure that the newsroom runs
smoothly. The second set of roles are the Managing Editors, who work for a
variety of different topics and help glean content from across the school. The
Managing Editors are Hope Ezell for Entertainment, Maddie Kelly for When’s Lunch—various short stories are published in When’s Lunch, Keshawn Mellon for STEM,
Katie Marker for Opinion, A.J. DeUzetta for Advice, and Hiba Ahmad for Current Events.
These
students are not only learning how to run a newsroom and write interesting
stories, but are also learning valuable leadership skills in corralling people to
create an amazing product. The students have also created a weekly news show to go
over events at the school and around the world. The News Anchors and Script
Writers are Anna Crichton, Neeti Prasad, Maryam Boumahchad, Fatima Boumahchad, Emma Mason, and the Cameraman/Video Editor is
Marc Ayala. This team works to supplement the written content that is posted on the
website. In addition to creating a website to post the content, The STEM
Inquirer is working to have a Social Media presence, led by Katie Jones. and
Brianna Perkins. To supplement the written content, Tae Akridge and Dena Back are photographers,
and go around the school to take pictures of events and breaking stories. To
ensure that the web experience is optimal, The STEM Inquirer has two Web
Masters, Chloe Johnson and Vidur Prasad. This entire team works together to not
only get stories and information, but write and present the information in the
best way possible.
The website is
designed to allow people to browse all of the content in an effective manner.
The stories are divided into five different categories: Current Events, STEM,
Entertainment, When’s Lunch, and the Opinion/Advice column. Stories are also
all displayed on the home page, allowing one to browse all of the stories at
one time. In addition, the website has the latest webcast, and information
about upcoming school days. As part of an effort to make it a reflection of
what the student’s would like, features are being added constantly, from a
quote of the week feature to a weather report. Polls are being added, modeled
after Wright State’s WINGS system, to allow teachers and students to gain a
better understanding of the student populace.
The STEM Inquirer
will continue to flourish as the voice of the students, and DRSS Newsroom is
proud to announce the unveiling of its website at http://thesteminquirer.wix.com/news.
