C-SPAN Bus Visited District High Schools; Students from all Three High Schools Appeared on "Washington Journal" C-SPAN Broadcast
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Contact: Margo Ferro, Comcast, 610-650-3064
Rob Partridge / Communications Director WCASD
COMCAST TO BRING THE C-SPAN CIVICS BUS TO
THE WCASD ON ITS “100 DAYS, 100 SCHOOLS” TOUR
Bus to offer tours as it visits 100 schools in 100 days across the country
WASHINGTON, D.C. - April 16, 2009 – The C-SPAN Civics Bus is on the road on its new “100 Days, 100 Schools” tour. The 45-foot mobile production studio and demonstration center will travel to Bayard Rustin High School, followed by East High School and B. Reed Henderson High School. The bus visit is made possible and brought to the West Chester Area School District by Comcast.
“For those who value what well-informed citizens can mean to our democratic form of government, as Thomas Jefferson once predicted would be the case, there is no better conduit for our students to explore than the model presented by C-SPAN,” said Rob Partridge, Communications Director for the WCASD. “Comcast has teamed up with C-SPAN to make this bus visit possible, highlighting the importance of seeing our government in action on a daily basis, as well as providing all of us a link to newsmakers, political figures and authors who are so important to our future,” Partridge concluded.
“We are thrilled to partner with C-SPAN to bring the civics bus tour to the West Chester Area School District locations,” said Kevin Broadburst, director of government affairs at Comcast. “We are committed to enriching the communities we serve and providing cutting-edge programming – this state-of-the-art, interactive tour truly exemplifies both of those commitments.”
Students, teachers and other visitors will have the chance to tour the bus during the visit and learn about the many resources C-SPAN offers, including the network’s education website, C-SPAN Classroom (www.c-spanclassroom.org), a free membership service for educators with downloadable video clips; the C-SPAN Video library (www.c-spanarchives.org); and C-SPAN’s television coverage of the new administration.
On Friday morning, April 17th, from 9AM-10AM, 12 students drawn from all three of the district high schools will participate in a live-feed remote broadcast of the C-SPAN program “Washington Journal.” Check your local listings for the cable channel in your area. The students and the schools they attend are:
Bayard Rustin High School Participants: (Principal: Dr. Phyllis Simmons)
- Anna Esten - AP US Government
- Krystal Bonner - AP US Government
- Grant Null - AP US Government
- Brendon Weinhardt - AP US Government/Video Productions
East High School Participants: (Principal: Dr. Richard Dunlap, Teacher Contact: Todd Lorback - All students are seniors, in both Advanced Placement Government and AP English Classes)
- Megan Fantoni
- Brittany Meloy
- Chris LaColla
- Carlos Sanabria
B. Reed Henderson High School Participants: (Principal: Robert Sokolowski - All students are seniors, and all are from the Social Studies class)
- Samantha Moog
- Peter Martino
- Nick Santalucia
- Kevin Costello
Special thanks to Dr. Christina Anderson supervising the district’s gifted program.
Guests for the Friday morning program include:
- 9-9:30 Michael Wolff, Newswer.com - role of aggregators (booked) -- Aggregator is a compilation sites for news - they take headlines from various newspapers & feeds & post it onto one website (Drudge, Huffington)
- 9:30-10 Bill Browning, head of Northern Virginia's Community College Job Readiness Training Program - job retraining (TENTATIVE but most likely the guest) -- people are turning to job retraining after being laid off from their original trained industry. Looking at NOVA's program that retrains the workforce to help them find new or better jobs.
About C-SPAN
C-SPAN, celebrating 30 years as America’s political network of record, was created by America's cable companies as a public service in 1979. C-SPAN programs three public affairs television networks; C-SPAN Radio, a Washington, D.C. radio station distributed nationally by XM Satellite Radio; and a video-rich website. C-SPAN is currently available in over 95 million cable and satellite households. For more information, visit www.c-span.org.
About Comcast
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communication products and services. With 24.2 million cable customers, 14.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.5 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's Eastern Division serves six million residential and business customers across Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, DC. The Eastern Division is based in Oaks, Pennsylvania and employs more than 20,000 people.
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