Tomas Cortez, a student at De La Salle Institute, learned how to interpret the news and how to make connections with people in the community at this summer’s Pasos al Futuro program.

 

“Don’t be shy and you’ll be amazed the connections you’ll make with people you’d never connect to or thought you’d want to talk to,” Cortez says.

For two weeks in June, students from Benito Juarez Community Academy, Solorio Academy High School, John F. Kennedy High School, Whitney Young and other local schools—and a few from schools in California—did the work of reporters, videographers, photographers and editors. And under deadlines that would keep Anderson Cooper on his toes. Read the full story: “Want to get to the heart of a news story? Replace fear with curiosity.”

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