Lina's blog

    The Kennedy robotics team sold holiday Coco-grams in the foyer this week for $1 a piece. In a Coco-gram, there is a hot chocolate package, two peppermint candy canes, and a piece of chocolate of your choice. You can even pick a cute label to write your friends name on. I bought two Coco-grams for my friends. One of my friends I gave a Coco-gram to was excited about it because she was hungry and felt happy to be getting a gift, even if it was small.     I talked to one of the robotics team members Austin Strait. I asked why they decided to use Coco-grams to raise money and Austin said: "We had a lot of it sitting in our rooms and we found extra candy canes and candy." A goal the robotics team was to raise enough money to buy new equipment and parts. They needed new parts so they could complete all the tasks that their robot faced at Rover Ruckus. Rover Ruckus is a place where robots are challenged by having to do a task like picking something up and move it or so...

Media Law You ever wonder who those "anonymous" sources are? I certainly couldn't tell you who, nobody except the writers know but they can't. Media law. Heard of it? Ever wonder why that is? It is the group of are laws in place to protect journalist, the sources, and even the story. Media law is consistent of many smaller laws. Laws like Libel, Invasion of Privacy, Shield Law, and Obscenity. Libel is when a publication was false, and it damaged someone’s reputation or image. To prevent that try to use cation when stating something as a fact and be 100% honest. This is important because if I choose pursue journalism in the future wouldn't want to make myself seem discreditable, hurt someone, and there are punishments for hurting someone’s reputation. Like libel is invasion of privacy. Invasion of privacy. is when you give inaccurate information, trespassing, or using pictures that were unwanted. I learned from this that I can't go anywhere I want, and I...