Tamica Jean-Charles
Good news!
Scholarship Student Tamica Jean-Charles will intern with PBS of South Florida next semester. as a production assistant with their food program, “Check, please!” She applied for the internship through her school’s internship coordinator. A 2016 graduate of Naples High School, Tamica will graduate from Florida International University, Miami, in May, 2020.
“This fall semester was hard for me,” she reported, “because I took three intensive journalism classes. I learned a lot. I still love journalism and now I’m more aware of what I need to do to succeed. Going forward, it’s just me putting everything I’ve learned into action.”
Oscar Santiago
Her Press Club Mentor is Oscar Santiago, a previous Press Club Scholarship Student, who is now a digital content producer for Naples Daily News and The News Press–part of the USA Today Network.
Congratulations to Camila Cal
Camila Cal
More great news! Camila (Naples HS grad 2017, UCF) has an internship working as a communications intern for the Florida Apartment Association in downtown Orlando starting in January. She will have the opportunity to work on their magazine, as well as attend conferences.
Camila writes, “I used the Press Club SCOOP online newsletter article I wrote about my journalism professor as a sample piece in my application, and the communications director loved it.”
Her mentor is Carole Greene.