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The University of the Sunshine Coast’s orientation day on 19 February 2008 was a great opportunity to make ourselves more widely known to some of the young people in our area. So we sent in a team with a marquee. Our President, Mark Rodriquez, on what we were trying to achieve: "We were there to let all of the campus know we existed, especially journalism students. I also wanted to sound the uni out on where our common interests may be influenced by the dreaded amalgamation. I approached special interest groups who had stalls I thought should be using community radio to see if they were interested in training and applying for their own shows on air." Groups approached included The Wilderness Society, United Synergies (a Noosaville-based provider of support to young people, families and communities, with particular emphasis on those experiencing some form of disadvantage), the Red Frogs (a Christian group pushing safe enjoyment at major youth functions like Schoolies). Two journalism students at the university, Carlos Robinson and Emily James, are already very active with us. Carlos presents a show of his own, writes and presents local news at least once a week and is our youth representative. Emily is also a weekly newscaster and helps out in other ways, e.g. station publicity. We already have good cooperation with the marketing studies people at the USC who've done us an audience survey that is proving useful in planning our output. One of our hopes in pitching our story was to attract especially journalism students to join us. We have long harboured a wish to establish a news and current affairs team that has several people on duty simultaneously to write, grab voice bites and present. And we also need more newscasters to choose, write and read local news. So, budding journos, here’s an exciting chance to go to air and to gain credits before you’ve finished your uni course. Good for us, good practice for future journos. Have a chat to Carlos and Emily about what it’s like with us. If you’re interested, drop us an email - news@noosacommunityradio.org ABC Coast FM's Annie Gaffney and Mix FM's Stephen Clarke originally cut their teeth in broadcasting with us at 101.3FM. Every one of our training programs has resulted in one young person being head-hunted by commercial radio. But back to the carnival atmosphere of orientation day: Mark, Rose, Marty, the Polynesian Princess, Kenny G and Carlos ran our stall. Our planning had been so thorough, our team arrived before anyone else, so they could strategically place our marquee next to the cafeteria. They handed out all of our 101.3FM showbags, which contained goodies donated by OfficeWorks, along with information about the station. One showbag contained a prize of a year's membership and a Noosa Sound Waves CD, which was won by journalism student Oriwa Williams from Coolum.
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