Summer High School Journalism Workshops at UK

The UK Advanced High School Journalism Summer Workshop is scheduled for June 4-10, 2006. This workshop is for students with prior journalism experience who are rising juniors, rising seniors, or will graduate this spring. Spend a week on campus, working with our faculty and staff from our award-winning student newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel. The reporting focus will be on the horse industry. Participants will gain experience in using the Maestro concept. Click here for more information and an application form. To see the 2004 and 2005 workshop newspapers, click here.

The Dow Jones High School Journalism Workshop for Minorities is scheduled for June 14-24, 2006. This workshop is for students who will graduate in 2006, 2007 or 2008 and who are of African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American or Native American descent. Students may not have previously participated in a Dow Jones workshop. The reporting focus for this workshop will be on sports, girls are encouraged to apply. Click here for the workshop application form. To see the 2005 DOW workshop newspaper, click here.

UPDATE! (June 26, 2006)

Fourteen students participated in the 2006 workshop. To read a bit about each of them,
click here.