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.p- Volunteer Rewards Program is initiated This program was developed to reward volunteers and producers for their efforts in producing programming along with promoting the facility. Starting January 1 st, volunteers began accruing points that qualifY them for North Metro 15 products. Each volunteer was given a brochure explaining the program and describing the prizes. Points can be earned for helping on van shoots, studio shoots, taking a class, producing a program or involving someone else in volunteering. Volunteers can earn key-chains, hats, t-shirts, polo-shirts, sweatshirts and jackets emblazoned with the channel 15 logo. ""'- Rewards Program grant Related to the Volunteer Rewards program, we worked with the Minnesota Junior Hockey League Gambling Director, Dean Brandt, to get a $1,000.00 grant to be put toward the purchase ofIogo items, to be given to volunteers. .;p-- Summer Academy Michele and Joel worked with Paul Augustan to bring the Summer Academy program back to the North Metro Media Center. For three weeks, a large group of talented teen-agers worked with our portable equipment and editing, produced several hours ofIive, in-studio programs, and covered an event utilizing the production truck. The Summer Academy program is designed to offer educational challenges to gifted students, and travels to various regional production facilities, from year to year. <!I'- Learning Alternatives School The L.A. school utilized the Media Center facility to teach their students the intricacies of television production, for the second year. Cheryl Gustafson, the coordinator of the program, says that working at the Media Center exposes the kids to what goes on behind the scenes in television production, and allows them to make their own programs, have an audience, and see a project through to completion. The program is based out of Spring Lake Park High School. """- Tours It would not be much of an exaggeration to suggest that nearly every boy scout troupe in the northern sector of the Twin Cities metro region attended a Media Center tour in 2001. Each visiting group got to see the inner workings of a functioning television facility, watch a production in progress, and produce, star in, and edit their own promo for the channel. The promos produced, during tours, are used around staiIproduced programs such as City Scope and Viewpoint. The scout group is also given a copy of the promo to watch over and over again, at home. 6