Student Voices

In 2014, GreatNews.Life established the Student Voices internship program (formerly #1StudentNWI), allowing high school students to share an insider’s view of everything happening at the high schools on a monthly basis. The GreatNews.Life staff not only edits and publishes their work but also sends feedback to the students to help them grow as journalists.

#1StudentNWI: A Look at Cool Experiences for Portage High School Students

#1StudentNWI: A Look at Cool Experiences for Portage High School Students What’s Coming Up In preparation for the upcoming dance season, the dance team has been practicing nonstop, but six certain dancers are putting in an extra 15 hours a week preparing for something else. Arianna Scott, Skyler Allen, Linda Carrasco,...

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#1StudentNWI: Shout Outs to Fantastic Students at the Porter County Career and Technical Center

#1StudentNWI: Shout Outs to Fantastic Students at the Porter County Career and Technical Center What is Going On: We are proud to announce that once again our Video Productions Class was recognized as the top television broadcasting school in Indiana! Thirty-three other students were invited to the conference because of their entries. It is...

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#1StudentNWI: Students and Teachers Building the Future at PCCTC

#1StudentNWI: Students and Teachers Building the Future at PCCTC What's Happening Here at the Porter County Career Center we not only work to perform well in our community, we also work to outperform ourselves so we are continuously improving. On February 6th, the Electronics class competed in the Nanoline Contest...

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#1StudentNWI: Success Found with Students and Teachers at Portage High School

#1StudentNWI: Success Found with Students and Teachers at Portage High School Student Spotlight Junior Kai Watkins received the opportunity of being able to spend seven weeks in Spain this summer to study Spain and Spanish culture through the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language. In order to be able to make...

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#1StudentNWI: Spotlighting the Best Students and Teachers at the PCCTC

#1StudentNWI: Spotlighting the Best Students and Teachers at the PCCTC Starting this semester, the Health Occupations students have gone into their positions to start their clinical! The students go into various locations to learn hands-on skills so when they get their CNA licenses they can be more prepared and also...

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#1StudentNWI: December Good News at the Porter County Career and Technical Center

#1StudentNWI: December Good News at the Porter County Career and Technical Center In society, there are a lot of gender dominated career fields that at the Career Center, we aim to defeat. We have a lot of students that are learning and establishing knowledge in career fields that are dominated by the opposite gender. Jenna...

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