HORIZONS SENIOR SHOWCASE
3/8/2010
MHS seniors recently showcased their senior Horizons sites, fielding questions about their internships, explaining the work they do each week, and describing their senior projects to students, faculty, and staff.
Sara Newman ’10 plans to major in musical theater and music composition. Her Horizons internship this year is at Barrington Stage Company. Kelsey Kercado ’10 wants to work in advertising. She’s interning this year at CompuWorks in Pittsfield, promoting a May fundraiser that Winnie Assefa Belai ’10 and Saniya Jesupaul ’10 are helping organize.
Sara, Kelsey, and fifty of their classmates recently showcased their senior Horizons sites, fielding questions about their internships, explaining the work they do each week, and describing their senior projects to students, faculty, and staff. The showcase, explained Senior Horizons Advisor Brendan Coogan, gave the girls a chance to present their Horizons site work to date and allowed juniors the opportunity to get a look at sites they might consider next year.
Centennial Hall took on the air of a large trade show crowded with creative displays. Amy Chan ’10’s booth featured materials from her site, Interprint, Inc., a designer and printer of decorative papers. Shimoli Kotecha ’10 included clippings of newspaper articles about exhibits at the Berkshire Museum, where she is interning with the Advertising Department. Her work there includes proofreading materials before they are sent out to area publications and promoting museum exhibits. “I like everything about my site, but I really enjoy the freedom I have there,” Shimoli said. “I can do research for some of my time and then do some hands-on work, like helping to update the website.”
Some of the displays were multimedia. Tori Larson ’10 and E.Y. Chun ’10, for example, played a public service announcement they created at radio station WBRK in Pittsfield. Sara is producing a video to promote Barrington Stage’s Youth Theater program to students in local schools. Sara, who has performed in two of the theater’s summer shows and plans to attend Muhlenberg College next year, said her internship has also included working with the theater’s marketing plan. “It’s fun, it’s different, and it’s a very creative site,” she said.
Nearby, Kelsey explained that CompuWorks often works with small organizations and nonprofits to help them publicize themselves and their events. She has been collaborating with Winnie, who is interning at VCA All Caring Animal Hospital in Great Barrington, and Saniya, who is interning at the Berkshire Humane Society, to promote a Dog Walk VCA hosts in May. Kelsey designed a registration form, a flyer to publicize the event, and a schedule of activities. “We’re trying to collaborate with other MHS students, such as Z-Club and HIFA (Hall’s is for Animals) to get them involved, too,” she said. “I want to be a business major in college, so I think this experience is going to help me a lot.”
