In February, the Campaign County Historical Archives hosted Campus Middle School for Girls (CMS) to assist them with their Forum Week projects.
Each year during Forum Week, CMS suspends their normal curriculum and the entire school focuses on a single topic. The topic for 2016 was podcasting. The students created podcasts about 6 historically-significant local organizations: Champaign County Historical Museum, Courier Cafe, Common Ground Food Co-Op, League of Women Voters of Champaign County, Capoeira Angola Center, and First United Methodist Church of Urbana.
These podcasts are entirely student-created: the girls researched their topics, conducted interviews, wrote scripts, composed music, and recorded and edited the final podcasts.
Great job, ladies!