Students and faculty from North Greenville University’s mass communication department attended the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) Conference in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 27-March 3.
North Greenville University students recently attended the National Religious Broadcasters conference in Nashville. Pictured, back row, from left: Bill Skelton, NRB chairman; Linwood Hagin, NGU mass communication chair; Shur Gopal, team adviser; Michael Oostdyk; Frank Wright, NRB president. Front row: Justin Robinson, Michael Cavalear and Joshua Hilkert.Twenty students attended the conference as volunteers or media challenge team members. The conference provided insight into integrating faith and media.
In the “36-DV” challenge, teams had 36 hours to write, shoot and edit a five-minute film based on a scripture passage. NGU students Michael Oostdyk, Michael Cavalear, Justin Robinson and Joshua Hilkert won first place. Shur Gopal was the team’s adviser.
Justin Salinas, Ariel Seppala and Paul James participated in the “36-DA” challenge, with Rick Sparks as team adviser. Teams had to create an audio feature about the NRB conference. The team from NGU used the Great Commission as its inspiration and won second place.
Oostdyk also participated in individual challenges, winning second place in the Internet Web Content and Design contest and third place in the TV Field Production-Narrative contest.
Clayton Thornton won first place in the TV Studio News contest for his work with Vision 48 News.
“The annual NRB conference allows students and faculty to network with Christian media professionals, exhibitors, and nationals from around the world,” said Linwood Hagin, mass communication department chair. “Students have secured internships, jobs and career-launching opportunities at NRB.” – NGU