Media savvy high schoolers create College Goal ads through MAPS

If you’re going to the workshop on college financial aid this weekend, chances are you learned about it from some students who are still in high school.

Print, radio and TV ads for College Goal Sunday at the University of Montana all came from the Media Arts in the Public Schools http://www.mediarts.org members of Corvallis High School. They came up with the giant gingerbread man that prospective college students can bite for financial assistance.

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MAPS http://www.mediarts.org founder Peter Rosten is looking to expand the three-year-old program beyond the Bitterroot. The retired TV and movie producer currently teaches classes in media skills at the high schools in Corvallis and Darby. Next month, he plans to open a branch in the Missoula Boys and Girls Club. And he’s taking a proposal to the 2007 Legislature to fund 10 more programs in high schools throughout the state.

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/02/10/news/local/news07.txt