Cape Coral High School has many different and diverse activities to help students who attend there feel more comfortable and more involved. One of these activities is Hawk News.
Hawk News is a TV production that is written and produced by Cape Coral High School’s very own students. All students, teachers, and staff find out information about different things going on in the school such as sports, school events, or any important dates. Not only do they give out information, but they turn it into a fun, witty, video for everyone to enjoy.
Hawk News has newly dedicated a segment at the end of every video, for the Spanish-speaking students to help them understand and feel included just as much as everyone else. Linda Castillo, a part of the anchor team of Hawk News, shared her experience by saying, “I work with the anchor team to write the script, and we make sure to do it in a timely manner so that the Spanish team is able to take our script, translate it and make their video by the deadline.”
The entire Hawk News team puts in a lot of effort, time, and dedication when it comes to creating these sections for the students. It is a small act that truly helps the Spanish-speaking students across the school.
Oriana Beber, a senior at Cape High, explained how the Spanish Hawk News works, “We mainly translate the script we get from the anchor team to adapt them to our Spanish-speaking students around the school so that they can receive the same quality of information we are delivering.”
Fortunately, for the students working on producing Hawk News, each person has said that helping the Spanish section of the news outlet hasn’t been troublesome whatsoever. Matteo Gomez, a student a part of the team says, “It hasn’t been difficult at all because I’m lucky to have and be a part of a really good team that I work with, they are all nice, understanding people.”
Hawk News has created friendships while filming and producing its segments. Each one of them couldn’t have been more proud to help the Spanish speakers in any way they could.
A Spanish speaker herself, who works with Hawk News on creating these scenes shared some feedback on how helpful she thinks the Spanish segments are. Noely Salgado expressed, “I think it’s very good because a lot of[Spanish speakers] don’t know what’s happening during the day or the week so it has been very helpful and good for the people.”
Not only has Noely gotten feedback from teachers as well as students, but so has Beber who stated, “The first couple of weeks we ended up receiving a lot of feedback from teachers that worked with Spanish students. They would have their heads down and as soon as our section came on, they immediately started being attentive and active which really proves the moral of the Spanish students since they don’t speak the English language.”
Cape Coral High School is very lucky to have its very own news outlet, from its very own students. They appreciate all students, no matter what language they speak. They provide information from all around the school and help everyone understand it lending to a more inclusive school and community all around.
