A celebration of communication
Grace Turner, Staff Writer
Photo courtesy of Seth Atkins
On April 30 at 5 p.m. in the Hayes Ministry Center senior communication majors will be coming together to present their capstone projects.
The projects include story portfolios, a movie night fundraiser, a documentary trailer and other demonstrations of the skills the students have developed in their time at North Greenville.
Each student gets seven minutes to present their work giving the background, process and a proposal of where the project could take them in the future. The presentations conclude with questions posed by the communication faculty. All who want to attend are welcome to come and celebrate with the seniors as they present their work.
To select a project, the students were required to go through an informal proposal and a formal pitch before officially landing on their completed project. The seniors are also assigned a faculty advisor of their choosing to guide them in their progress.
The instructor for the senior capstone course is Karyn Campbell. She has been instructing the course since 2022, getting to watch the student projects grow from idea to completion as they develop throughout the semester.
“They have taken everything that they’ve learned in various classes and internships, and a lot of them on their own. They’ve taken all those things and applied them to real life and they have something concrete to show for it,” said Campbell.
The presentations are an opportunity for students to highlight their often-hidden work. Campbell explained that this is often a passion project for these seniors such as Katie Best Bostic, who’s movie night fundraiser is for Flourish Adoption Ministries or Elisa Wells who wrote a digital collection of testimonies called “Lessons Along the Way”.
Another senior who will be presenting her project is Samantha Meyeres. She is a digital media major with a concentration in journalism. For her project, Meyeres created a website called “Footsteps of the Faithful” that features stories about missionaries and those impacted by them. Along with the stories, the website contains a statement of purpose, prayer requests from the missionaries and a place to reach out about prayer requests and other story leads.
To create her project, Meyeres started with the knowledge that she wanted to write and then built on it.
“I’ve loved writing from when I could pick up a pen and put it to paper,” she said, “but I think getting to NGU is when I found my passion for journalism.”
While thinking about her favorite journalism pieces throughout her time at NGU, Meyeres realized she had a love for mission stories. She then set off getting contacts and conducting interviews to create her piece, highlighting the great commission for a Christian audience.
For the future, Meyeres intends to hang onto this project as a portfolio of writing as well as an open opportunity to continue to tell these stories. The project could also be a potential launching pad for her to write for a mission organization one day.
Meyeres said, “If people fill out the contact or if they come to me with stories of what they are doing in their lives, and how they’re serving the Lord, I would love to write their story.”
