With this new school year starting up, Mr. Myers, our journalism teacher at Natrona County High School, is currently working on putting this year’s yearbook club together to get more help putting our yearbook together.
Since the 2024-25 school year has just begun, a new yearbook will have to be created. Our C block journalism class is putting together plans for t-shirts, hoodies, stickers, pins, hats, and other items that will help with club identity. This club will be primarily focused on working on the yearbook, but we will do other fun activities as well.
“It didn’t start this morning like it was supposed to because I had some stuff going on. But I think our first meeting is going to be tomorrow afternoon. We’ll see if anybody can make it,” said Myers.
The club’s roster is still being finalized and the group will have their first meeting once everyone is able to communicate on the team app.
“I would like to really focus the club’s efforts on growing awareness of our publications,” said Myers. “So, we want to get some t-shirts and hoodies made for journalism club kids, yearbook club I guess is what we’re going to call it, plan out some travel opportunities. We’ve got a conference at Casper College coming up. And then really just focus on making yearbook and newspaper a big part of our school.”
Our journalism teacher has many ideas for this club. We will work on making hoodies and t-shirts and other merchandise to help represent our club more throughout the school, as well as planning trips out of the school. Some of these trips may even go as far as out of state.
“I’ll allow as many as possible because we need all the help we can get. I think there’s like 10 kids that are pretty interested right now, and I’m hoping to grow that number,” said Myers.
As written, we assume that this club will have a small number of 10 total people. Mr. Myers explained that there will not be a maximum number of people in this club.
“I would stress to them, first of all, the opportunities that journalism provides to just make yourself a more intelligent person and better able to understand the world around you, but also the really critical job skills that you get through journalism, you learn critical thinking, you learn communication skills, organizational skills, responsibility,” said Myers. “You also learn empathy because as a reporter, you have to kind of learn how to look through other people’s eyes. So a lot of really important things, but we also want to have fun, walk down to the coffee shop and, you know, just hang out, eat some good snacks, and just dig into some of the cool and important stuff that’s going on around our school and our community.”
He explains that yearbook club is a great way to get yourself more involved with the school. Myers also illustrated that this club can give you more critical thinking, communication, job, organizational skills, and responsibility. All in all, this club has many benefits to joining it.
“There are no requirements,” said Myers. “I’m happy to take anybody. It’d be cool if they showed up once a month. If kids want to compete in the state journalism contest they have to publish at least four separate pieces in either the newspaper or the yearbook.”
If you are interested in working on the yearbook, Myers asks you to please join this club. As shown above, there are zero requirements. As long as you are willing to work hard, you will fit right in.
“Best reason to join the club is to just get involved with the school,” Myers said. “Second best reason would be to learn really important skills that you need in life.”
