Drake SJMC is currently hosting almost 80 high school students and their advisers from around the country for Media Now Drake, a three-day intensive journalism boot camp July 8-11. Students choose from tracks focused on design, yearbook, writing, video, web, sports reporting, photography, and editorial leadership, taught by professionals and the nation’s best high school teachers. Their advisers network and receive teaching advice. Participants receive the full Drake student experience: staying in Jewett Residence Hall, eating in Hubbell Dining Hall, and taking field trips around the Des Moines metro area. This is the third year of Media Now Drake, and many of the campers eventually join us as SJMC first-years.

— Kathleen Richardson, School of Journalism and Mass Communication