Day 5: Restaurant Review

Ingredient Review

by Eric S.

The restaurant Ingredient is a place that you can’t miss out on. The restaurant is in a great area and the food is really a spectacular thing to eat (even though it is a bit greasy). The service, on the other hand, was not good but not bad. An order got messed up and the burgers were overcooked, The fries, though, were good. When eating the fries, they were a bit greasy and little too salty, but overall they were superb.

When looking at the outside of Ingredient, you can see a giant fountain and lots of busy people. In the inside, it liked a diner and your average Chipotle.

So in short, the restaurant was very much like your average diner. The food is greasy, but it’s still really good. Ingredient is, in general, a good/average place to eat. But the service was bad. Still a place you can’t miss out.

FOOD: 4/5

SERVICE: 2/5

ATMOSPHERE: 3/5

$$ = Under $20

Day 4: KCUR

Teacher’s note: On Thursday, students practiced reading weather, news, and advertisements for pretend radio broadcasts. They worked on monitoring their volume, pitch, and speed to optimize their vocal deliveries. After that, they wrote and recorded their own news, sports, and/or commercial features. Here is Eric's performance:

Later that day, students toured KCUR studios in Kansas City. As their kind and knowledgeable host, Stephen Steigman—chief of KCUR broadcast operations—provided background information on public radio and some of the technical details that allow the NPR affiliate to beam its news and entertainment programming to radios throughout the Kansas City area. Mr. Steigman then recorded the students as they had a conversation. 

Here is the full interview.

The students watched in wonder as Mr. Steigman then took an excerpt of audio from the proceedings and added it to a popular song. During the entire van ride back to the school, students laughed and sang along to the new hit song:

Day 3: KCPT

On Wednesday, students took a tour of the KCPT studios in Kansas City, learning about what distinguishes public television from its commercial counterpart. With those differences in mind, each student wrote and directed a public service announcement. Here is Eric's.

Day 2: KU School of Journalism

MEDIA MANIA VISITS KU SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

LAWRENCE, Kan. — On Tuesday, June 2, 11 students from Barstow’s Media Mania summer camp traveled to the University of Kansas’s School of Journalism in Lawrence, Kan., to learn more about the process of creating print, online, and television news.

KU school recruiter Ashley Anguiano led the campers, teacher assistant Matt Gannon, and teacher Mr. Guldin around the Stauffer-Flint and Dole buildings. Ms. Anguiano informed the group about the different aspects of a journalism and mass communications degree at KU. She encouraged anyone pursuing a career in media to write as much and as often as possible.

The tour concluded with a trip to the Media Crossroads, located within the Kansas Union building. Media Crossroads Director Cal Butcher introduced the campers to the “green screen” that KU students use to produce the student news show, Good Morning KU.

Day 1: Tomorrowland Movie Review

Tomorrowland

3 out of 5 Stars

        

Disney’s Tomorrowland is a movie where there’s a girl named Casey (Brittany Robintson) that goes into the future to save the world from ending.  The movie’s writers were Damon Lindelof and Brad Bird who is also the Director. But was the movie good and satisfying or was it just a movie that was bad and that shouldn’t have been made? It did have a good amount of people wanting to watch it. So is the movie Tomorrowland good or bad?

          

The movie starts with Casey wanting to stop the destruction of a launch pad which was originally built by NASA. The reason for the destruction of the launch pad was because her father said that they did not have anything to launch. So she snuck into the launch pad and sabotaged a crane. She finally gets caught and when released she found a pin with a T on it with her stuff.

          

The next events were crazy, when Casey touches the pin she sees herself in a middle of a field with a giant city called Tomorrowland. She investigates about the pin by going to a store. There she meets Athena (Raffey Cassidy) who saved her from robots. Then they go to a guy named Frank (George Clooney), who they think can help get them to Tomorrowland. He leads them and tries to get to the future and from there you can see the movie yourself.

          

This movie was kind of confusing in the middle but is still a fun movie to watch. The rating for this movie doesn’t make sense because the movie is rated PG and with all the cussing it should be rated PG-13. But it’s still a fun movie to watch if you’re into Sci-Fi and action movies just like Tron. It’s a great movie but the story is confusing and it is missing some details so it would be a 3/5.  It’s still a good movie never the less and it would be great for people who likes adventure and who doesn’t mind creepy robot heads.