HRI combines talents with TAMU-CC communications students to create PSA video
HRI Education Outreach program created a new Public Service Announcement (PSA) this spring by combing forces with the undergraduate video classes of Dr. Laszlo Fulop, Professor of Communications in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.
   Through their classes, TAMU-CC undergraduate video students learn how to shoot and edit film footage and become familiar with other skills needed to produce various types of videos such as a PSA. This spring, Dr. Fulop’s students took the opportunity to turn their PSA assignment into a product that could potentially be used and published on the HRI website. Students used their own video footage taken of the Innovation Academy high school students participating in the Laguna Outreach Project and produced several different PSAs for HRI. The videos are currently being edited but should be available for viewing this summer.
   Dr. Fulop said that he enjoyed working with HRI on the project because his students got the chance to apply the skills he taught them in class and were able to get real-world field experience. He said he would welcome the opportunity to work with HRI again on similar media projects.
nbsp;  HRI Research Specialist and Laguna Outreach Project Director Suraida Nañez-James said the PSA project has benefited all parties involved. “Everyone will be able to see the education outreach HRI is doing but most importantly TAMU-CC students got the unique opportunity to be part of an interdisciplinary and collaborative project where they were able to see firsthand how the world of science and liberal arts can come together,” she said.

Summer High School Internship Program selects three students to be interns
The HRI Summer High School Internship Program (SHIP) has set sail! Three students, Michael A. Goynes II, Daniella M. Sanchez and Leanne Franco, from the Innovation Academy for Engineering, Environmental and Marine Science at Moody High School were selected from a pool of six applicants as the interns for the SHIP. This program was funded by a grant from the Coastal Bend Community Foundation (CBCF) in an effort to provide high school students the opportunity to work alongside HRI researchers and experience the life of a scientist for a 5-week period this summer.