A seventh grade student tests out a camera while her teacher looks on.

Eleven middle school students from the Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School in New Haven visited campus Nov. 5, 2009. Rebecca Abbott, professor of film, video & interactive media, and Kenn Venit, a part-time faculty member in the School of Communications, helped the students to create a short newscast in the HDTV Studio in the Ed McMahon Mass Communications Center.

"This was a fabulous opportunity for our students," said Sylvia Petriccione, artistic coordinator at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School.

Please click on the links to the left to see other ways in which students are engaged in the Hamden community.