DATA Student Captures All The Action From The Sidelines

DATA photojournalist Gabe Jimenez worked the sidelines this fall, capturing all the action of Cathedral City's new Junior Football League. At left is just one example of this work.

DATA Students Document Grand Opening of Tolerance Education Center

DATA students filmed the grand opening of the Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. In November, DATA students interviewed Holocaust survivors in the first of an ongoing project to document the lives of survivors.

At left, DATA students Lupita Fuentes, Laura Padilla, and Gleidy Isais interview Rep. Mary Bono Mack.

Tolerance Education Center Opening, Rancho Mirage, CA from Matt Hamilton on Vimeo.

DATA Students Visit Morris Desert Media

DATA students are involved in a variety of enrichment activities throughout the year. During the first semester, in an event arranged by Director of Programming and Operations John McMullen, DATA journalism students visited Morris Desert Media Group to learn about jobs in front and behind the microphone in the radio business.

One of the highlights of the day for the DATA students was visiting with DJ Ant Dog, who had the students record a promo during his studio show.

DATA graduates Denisse Gonzalez and Nondi Johnson have interned the past two summers for KNEWS radio.

DATA Students Interview Holocaust Survivors

Frances Nassau (left) was one of three Holocaust survivors that were interviewed by DATA journalism students at the Tolerance Education Center in Rancho Mirage on Nov. 18, 2009. Nassau survived her time in four different concentration camps during World War II.

Katherine Gruen and Gabriella Gartner were the other two survivors that were interviewed by the students.

Ann Phillips of the Tolerance Education Center hosted the forum.

DATA Students Film At Poly High

Five DATA journalism students spent the day filming teachers and students in the Riverside Poly High School Culinary Academy. 

The filming was at the request of the California Department of Education, and the completed video project will be hosted on a CDE web site. 

DATA Students Visit Cal-State Fullerton

Over 100 students from the Digital Arts technology Academy at Cathedral City High School visited Cal-State Fullerton on Nov. 12. 

The students received a campus tour, met with an admissions director, toured the CSUF Performing and Visual Arts Department, and talked to four DATA grads who are now students at CSUF.

Professor Larry Johnson, chariman of the school's visual arts department, and his faculty provided the DATA students with a visit to several classes while they were in session to give the students a feel for the breadth of the program. 

Johnson emphasized the idea that "our department seeks to turn out students who are problem solvers, creative thinkers, and people who can create something out of just an idea."