Twenty students chosen for ThreeSixty summer workshop

Twenty high school students have been chosen to participate in this summer’s ThreeSixty Summer Journalism Workshop at the University of St. Thomas.

The two-week journalism camp will be held June 17-29 at the St. Thomas campus in St. Paul. Six of the students selected are African-American, seven are Asian-American, three are Latino and four are Caucasian. Eight of them will also participate in a one-week broadcasting camp from July 3-7.

ThreeSixty serves more than 400 high school students each year through a range of programs. It has been at St. Thomas since 2001 and is supported by contributions from Twin Cities’ media outlets, individuals, corporations and foundations.

The students chosen for the summer workshop will live on the St. Thomas campus and attend classes on writing, reporting, photography, layout and other aspects of journalism. UST journalism faculty and veteran journalists teach the classes and each student is paired with a professional mentor, who helps the student report and write an article to be published in either the Star Tribune or St. Paul Pioneer Press.

Students chosen for the 2007 ThreeSixty Summer Journalism Workshop include:

• Ben Pearce, a student at St. Paul’s Central High School. He covers sports for the school newspaper.
• Michelle Berry, 18, who graduates from North Community High School in Minneapolis this spring.
• Kristopher Mitchell, 15, a freshman at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis. Kris has worked for his school’s on-line magazine.
• Edgar Ivan Ullaguari, an 11th grader at Lincoln International High School in Minneapolis.
• Julia Wang, a freshman at Eden Prairie High School who has worked for the school newspaper.
• Gyasi Jones, 18, who graduates from North Community High School in June.
• Nicholas McClellan, who graduates this spring from DeLaSalle High School.
• Kyla Riley, a graduating senior at Humboldt High School in St. Paul.
• Maggie Clemensen, a sophomore at Northwestern High School in South Dakota, where she is editor of the school newspaper.
• Priyanka Kailash, a junior at Eden Prairie High School who is interested in broadcast journalism.
• Andrew Worrall, who is graduating from Roseville Area High School, where he was active in newspaper, yearbook and broadcast.
• Idil Hassan, who is graduating from Eden Prairie High School, where she anchored the high school newscast.
• Tiana Daun, a junior at Patrick Henry High School in Minneapolis, where she has worked on the student newspaper.
• Levi Ismail, a junior at Anoka High School, where he works on the student newscast.
• MySee Chang, a sophomore at Buffalo High School.
• Thomas Birai, a sophomore at Osseo Senior High School.
• Aimee Cote, a sophomore at Buffalo High School, where she has been active on the newspaper and yearbook staffs.
• Sheta Lo, a senior at St. Francis High School, where she works on the school newspaper.
• Belle Lin, a sophomore at Mounds View High School, where she works on the school newspaper.
• Matthew Smith, a junior at Como Park High School in St. Paul, where he works on the student newspaper.