County officials secure funding for Camp Avenue
To offset emergency repairs made to Camp Avenue Elementary School last spring, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Legislator Michael Giangregorio secured $104,000 to be utilized by the North Merrick School District. They presented a check to district officials on April 9.
North Merrick residents approved an expense from the district’s Capital Reserve Fund during the budget vote last year to address the emergency partial roof replacement at Camp Ave -
nue. County Executive Blakeman and Legislator Giangregorio’s gracious funding will fully offset the cost to the district. During their visit to the school, they were joined by Superintendent Cynthia Seniuk, district administrators, Board President Megan Ryan, Principal Hillary Bromberg and members of the Student Council to receive the check. The North Merrick community thanks its representatives for securing this much needed funding.
— Jordan Vallone
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and Legislator Michael Giangregorio secured $104,000 in funding for emergency roof repairs made at Camp Avenue School. They were joined by Superintendent Cynthia Seniuk, Board President Megan Ryan and members of the Student Council.
Broadcasting program takes second in NBC contest
For the second year in a row, students from Wellington C. Mepham High School’s Bellmore-Merrick Broadcasting program have earned second place in the NBCU Academy and Adobe’s national contest, The Edit. The digital storytelling contest challenges students to tell a story about the concepts of physical, mental or financial wellbeing.
According to NBC, over 30,000 students from 600 schools across the country have participated since its debut.
“The Edit is a great opportunity for BMB students to demonstrate the digital storytelling concepts they learn every day in the BMB program,” said teacher Matt Russell, whose class produced the winning entries both this year and last.
Juniors Mattes, Nicole Saraceni and Mia Haffner teamed up to create their news report, which combined interviews, graphics and B-roll to tell the story of how physical activity and education help to create balance, mental wellbeing and wellness.
“Most of the stories we do for BMB focus on school and community events, working on a news story about an important topic like wellness was a different kind of challenge,” Haffner, who has been in the program since her freshman year, said.
To complete the project, students combined materials provided by NBC and Adobe with curricular materials used daily in BMB.
Junior Nicole Saraceni described the reporting and editing process during the contest. “We scheduled the interviews and crafted interview questions like on a normal BMB story, but this time we also created graphics using the footage NBC gave us,” she said.
The BMB program is currently in its ninth year at
Mepham. Students from across the district can apply for entry in eighth grade. Over the course of their four years in the program, they learn the
by
basics of digital storytelling
creating short films and news packag-
es, studio shows and live sports coverage.
The winning story can be viewed here and on the Friday, April 11 edition of the nationally recognized BMB Morning Announcements broadcast on YouTube.
Courtesy Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District
Junior Oliver Mattes reports about the mental and physical benefits of playing sports in high school.
Photos courtesy North Merrick Public Schools
Camp Avenue Principal Hillary Bromberg welcomed County Executive Blakeman to the building.
