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by themselves.”
He added their achieve-
ment was made even bet-
ter because of the strength
of the competition. ALTV’s
contest entry placed second
to a larger California school
with greater resources.
Six students, a mix of
sixth through eighth grad-
ers, discussed their work,
the award and their feel-
ings following their recent
accomplishment.
One of the broadcast-
ers present was Aspyn
Inners, 12. An anchor on
the program, she said she
has strong feelings for
broadcasting. She fi rst got
involved because of a friend
who also was in it. She
started taking the classes,
he said, and then “fell in
love” with the program and
the fi eld.
Now, she said, her work
is about more than an oppor-
tunity to spend time with
friends and is more meaning-
ful than winning awards.
“I think (journalism) is
about telling a story and put-
ting it in front of people for
them to see,” she said.
She added she feels a great
responsibility to do this work
and make sure she is telling
stories truthfully.
The friend who intro-
duced her to the class was
Sofi a Rodriguez, also 12.
She anchored the Christmas
program with Aspyn. Sofi a
said, though, that anchor-
ing is not a full-time job for
anyone. Students, she said,
rotate through several diff er-
ent positions, which teaches
them about diff erent aspects
of creating a show.
She did admit to having a
favorite position.
“I love anchoring,” she
said.
She stated she would like
to be an anchor as a career.
It was especially exciting for
her that ALTV won an award
for a program, she said,
because she helped anchor it.
“I was super stoked about
it,” Sofi a said the victory.
Sharing her classmates’
keep their servers cool and
local government offi cials
willing to trade tax breaks
for jobs. Google built a data
center in The Dalles while
Facebook and Apple tar-
geted Prineville for their
own facilities.
When Amazon Web Ser-
vices established a presence
in Boardman in 2010 and
Umatilla in 2012, it often
operated under the name
of a subsidiary: Vadata Inc.
When Amazon planned its
expansion into Hermiston
in 2019, the city council
and Umatilla County Board
of Commissioners agreed
to abate 15 years of prop-
erty taxes in exchange for a
fl at $40 million.
In recent years, Ama-
zon has shed some of its
secrecy and upped its pub-
lic investments.
In
2021,
Amazon
announced more than a
half-million in donations to
community organizations
across Umatilla and Mor-
row counties. Later that
year, AWS cut the ribbon
on its Think Big Space, a
career technical education
space at the SAGE Center in
Boardman.
Nayeli Contreras, the
director of Blue Moun-
tain’s Hermiston Cen-
ter, said the collaboration
between Blue Mountain
and Amazon has been in
the works for years but
the coronavirus pandemic
delayed an in-person class.
She said the class aligns
with BMCC President
Mark Browning’s goal of
having the college work
more with the region’s
employers on job training.
Contreras said she
hopes Blue Mountain will
collaborate with Amazon
on future classes, even if
they are in areas other than
fiber optic splicing. She
added she’s kept a list of
students who registered for
the class but weren’t able
to attend so she can reach
out to them for future
opportunities.
Erick Peterson/Hermiston Herald
Armand Larive Middle School students and their instructor begin a broadcast recording March 1, 2022. The class recently
won national recognition for one of its shows.
Erick Peterson/Hermiston Herald
Erick Peterson/Hermiston Herald
Rob Doherty, Armand Larive Middle School teacher, shows
off the ALTV website on March 1, 2022.
Armand Larive Middle School student Matea Sepulveda
positions the camera just ahead of a broadcast March 1,
2022, at Hermiston school.
excitement for journalism,
Matea Sepulveda, 14, spoke
of the stories she has been
able to create with ALTV.
“I’ve done a ton of sto-
ries about important topics,
like lockdowns and wearing
masks at school and how peo-
ple feel about it,” she said.
She added that ALTV is a
“really fun place to be” and
that she is very fond of her
teacher and classmates.
Juliette Goyer Rondon,
12, also said she is enjoying
herself and learning a great
deal.
“I’ve learned how to take
good shots, lighting, volume
and stuff like that,” she said.
The technical part of the
job is gratifying, she said, but
her focus remains on telling
important stories. She said
she likes to fi nd important
topics and spread awareness
of them to others.
Jaideny Orozco, 11,
expressed her own feelings
about what she has learned.
“I’ve learned a lot —
like how we should respect
other people, but also how
to shoot videos and edit on
other software apps.”
Jaideny, a relative new-
comer to the ALTV, said
she is enjoying the com-
pany of older classmates.
Naima Velasco, 14, for
instance, has been in the
broadcasting program for
more than three years.
Naima said her work has
changed during the past few
years. Her school was closed
for much of the pandemic,
so she had to be more inde-
pendent. She fi lmed with a
small Chromebook, which
she used also for editing.
“It was a complex pro-
cess,” she said.
She added the whole
world became more complex
during the past few years, and
this is one reason she fi nds
journalism exciting.
“Personally, I like to
focus on stories outside of
school,” she said. “I get
to thinking about what we
haven’t heard of yet, what
is going on and what peo-
ple want to hear about in
our community.”
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