Nekoda Boggs - Photo Essay 1

The Northwestern Music Boosters have been a driving force to why the Northwestern band is so successful. Northwestern Local Schools is located in the little town of West Salem, Ohio and it's music program has thrived in Wayne County and the surrounding counties no thanks to their Music Boosters. These pictures will give you an accurate description of what the Music Boosters do but I will take time now to explain what exactly they do to help the band.

Every year the Music Boosters puts on a spaghetti supper to help raise money for not only the band but for they choir as well. The money that is raised with this event gets put to buying instruments for the students, trips to Cedar Point and new uniforms for the high school marching band. The students have a month to sell raffle tickets that will be announced on the first Saturday of the March. Local businesses help pitch in by donating baskets and packages to be given away at the raffle. The Friday night before the raffle there is a concert that the students put on and the range is 5th grade through high school.

Parents and the community can go to football games to see the marching band, three stage concerts and are invited to be a part of music boosters meetings that happen every second Tuesday of the month. This way the parents, teachers and community members may have a say in what happens to the money that was raised or to be aware of what is being done to grow the students musically.

Candice Flemming and Jaylnn Reed, fifth grade drummers for the Northwestern band, wait in anticipation for the director to give them queues on Music Booster provided instruments on March 4, 2016.

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Ariel Smith, a fifth grader at Northwestern, leads the clarinet section in the opening song to start the night on March 4, 2016.

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High school french horn players Audra Gill (Senior) and Bailey Adler (Junior) read and play their Music Booster provided instruments and music on March 4, 2016

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Director Ralph Negro of the Northwestern High School band presents the players after the opening song concludes on March 4, 2016.

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Ralph Negro, head of the Northwestern band and High school director, thanks the music boosters, principle, super intendent and parents for coming out on March 4, 2016 before closing with the final song of the night.

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High school students preform on new french horns that were provided by the Northwestern music boosters.

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Senior Jacelyn Alberts, leads the flute section in the second to last song of the night switching between a flute and a piccolo. 

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After the last song of the night preformed by the Northwestern High School band, senior Audra Gill proudly holds in front of her the Booster provided instrument.

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Spaghetti that was provided on March 5, 2016 by the Music Boosters and prepared by the parents in order to raise money for the organization

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Mass amounts of people line up to recieve their spaghetti as more pay at the door and the rest sit and enjoy the atmosphere of community the Booster have provide.

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Businesses donate baskets, packages and presents to be given away in the raffle that will follow the spaghetti dinner on March 5, 2016.

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Parents and Booster Members serve the community that is attending and supporting this event.

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A grandmother of a band student puts dressing on her salad before heading to her table with her family.

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As people are flooding into the auditorium to begin the raffle the baskets await patiently on display to be given away to one lucky winner.

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Treasurer of the Music Boosters, Jason Wellert, reads off the names of the raffle winners and invites them to come up to receive their prize on March 5, 2016.

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Benjamin DeYoung Photo Essay

College life is fun, exciting, tiring, sometimes boring, sometimes a bit sad, but its always new and different. I think that Ben Hoff, one of my best friends here at Cornerstone, showcases that college is just a whole bunch of random mishaps that tend to turn out in the end. College life was a big thing that everyone emphasized back when we were in high school, and its not as glamours as everyone made it out to be. Although it is fun at times, this photo series shows the grit of dorm life and the everyday style that someone goes though at a college like Cornerstone.

Ben starts his day off with a nice cup of coffee, but the anger sets in when he realized he didn't put any coffee grounds in the machine.

Ben puts a makeshift filter over his mug and tries to salvage what he can from the hot water.

The hallway seems like a marathon in the morning when Ben has to travel from his dorm room to the community style bathroom.

Someday's Ben spends a lot of time working in his room in to the wee hours of the night.

Ben sits across the room from Jake in silence, fixing the handle on the faulty dorm door for the fourth time.

It proves to be a struggle considering Ben has spend hours wrestling the broken door knob.

Ben slowly walks to the dumpster enjoying the nice day out after a big rain storm the night before.

Any moment to mess around is spent like a little treasure throughout the day.

Smart phones are something that has made this generation a bit less social then generations before, Ben and Brandi serve as an example for a few minuets.

Ben heads down the hallway towards his dorm to get ready to leave for the long Easter weekend.

With only a backpack and a coat Ben gets ready to fly back to Wisconsin. 

Alex Clausing- Photo Essay 1

Industrial Designer, Caleb Clausing, reads about our galaxies in the Museum of Science and Industry on Saturday, March 19th.
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Industrial Designer, Caleb Clausing, gazes at spaceship models in the NASA section of the Museum of Science and Industry on Saturday, March 19th.
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Industrial Designer, Caleb Clausing analyzes a large, miniature diorama  of the city of Chicago at the Museum of Science and Industry on Saturday, March 19th.
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A large bulletin board filled with various certificates and ribbons hanging in Caleb Clausing's room.
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On the large bulletin board hangs a President's Education Award of Outstanding Academic Excellence made to Caleb Clausing and signed by President George W. Bush
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On his desk lies a certificate awarded to Caleb Clausing for being a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America, along with a class project where he designed a ladle handle.
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Two glass Coca Cola bottles turned silver in an experiment done by Caleb Clausing with the use of silver nitrate and other chemicals.
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Several medals from past math competitions and trophies from other various events are on display in Caleb Clausing's closet.
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In his room, hangs an entire layout of a golf course designed by Caleb Clausing when he was young.
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Industrial Designer, Caleb Clausing is focused on perfecting his senior project "The Rainwater Planter" on Sunday, March 20th.
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Industrial Designer, Caleb Clausing, uses SolidWorks to design his project, "The Rainwater Planter" on Sunday, March 20th.
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A collection of Calvin and Hobbes are stored in Caleb Clausing's closet. Caleb grew up reading these and is still caught reading them once in a while for inspiration and enjoyment.
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Shylia Fletcher - Photo Essay 1

The CityLinc in Battle Creek, Michigan does so much for their community, but the one thing I focused on was the foster care and adoption service from this organization. I've chosen this organization because it is Christian based and is placed in a rural community. I found their organization interesting because I've always been curious on how an adoption program run. I was not able to touch based on a lot of things due to the fact that it had to stay censor but the information that I did receive was quite intriguing and informational. 

The street it is on is midpoint from the suburbans and the hood basically. The people in this organization does so much, so I focused on them and their individuals jobs. They were inspiring and super down to earth. They loved what they do and they enjoy coming to work everyday. 

Dale Boyer, the main man of the office, who allowed me to come take pictures makes it possible for the foster children who have separation anxiety get the things they left behind. The desk he is holding is going to be sent to the young girl it belongs to in Florida. She was just reunited with father but this desk is the only thing she owns in the world. Dale uses his own money to send things such as these to the children they belongs to. He finds joy in being able to reunite them to the children who has nothing else and it is the only thing that keeps them anchor in this world. 

 Joy, she's the office manager. She answer the door and make sure everything is squared away in the office. 

The bags Joy was talking about are from donors to the foster children. The bags consist of a toothbrush kit, a blanket, a teddy bear and gloves. The bag is given to the foster children that come in with nothing. 

Terry is the book keeper who job is to pay bills, do payroll and deposit financial taxes.

This is Terry again doing bills and calculating payments.

 Emma is in control of the Stuff-the-Bus organization where she has to put boxes around the community to get people involved with donating school supplies and backpacks so that they can go to children who needs them in the community. Her main objective isn't just the foster children but the children in the neighborhood as well.

 A poster board the organization is working on that showcases what their organization is all about. 

The room that holds all the closed cases of the foster children who have founded a home or was reunited with their families. 

 June receives flowers all the time from the people she helps. She is a adoption case worker.

 Lois is a licensing specialist that also investigates home when a foster family wants to take in a foster child. She make sure the house is decent enough for the child and check out the family as well.

Nicole is a brilliant person to converse with. She is the program supervisor that make sure everyone is doing their day to day duties. She also part of organizing the closed foster care paperwork. She maintains the develop of the program.

 The building of CityLinC was originally a home that was transformed into working office to provide closer services to the people in the community.  

 The sign of the building that list the services the organization offers. 

I snapped a photo of this sculpture because I wanted to showcase the Christian based aspect of this organization. It was hanging above the printer in the office Emma works in.