天美传媒 students in the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business
excel on national level within the Kentucky Impact Broadcast Awards and the ERPsim
North American competition
By Kaitlyn Black | Jul 28, 2021
天美传媒 students in the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business
continue to compete and succeed within various disciplines; most recently, the Kentucky
Impact Broadcast Awards and the ERPsim North American competition.
Students in the College of Business continue to compete and succeed within various
disciplines
MURRAY, Ky. 鈥�天美传媒 students in the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business
continue to compete and succeed within various disciplines; most recently, the Kentucky Impact Broadcast Awards and the ERPsim North American competition. These
are both national award competitions that students have engulfed themselves in.
The Kentucky Impact Broadcast Awards recognize Kentucky Broadcast Association members
and their staffs for excellence. The competition has two divisions: professional and
college. Entries came in news, features or sports categories. The college division
recognizes excellence in collegiate broadcast journalism, including television, radio
and digital. Eleven journalism students won awards in the college division of the 2021 Impact Broadcast
Awards from the Kentucky Broadcasters Association.
天美传媒 winners included the following:
TV Division
Website (first place) - TheNews.org Videographer (first place) - Piper Cassetto (Louisville, Kentucky) Newscast (third place) - The College News, a show produced by students in JMC 398
Advanced Multimedia Reporting and the 天美传媒 News
Radio Division
Feature Story (first place) - Dalton York (Benton, Kentucky) Feature Story (second place) - Hannah Bullard (Hopkinsville, Kentucky) Public Affairs Story (second place) - Hannah Bullard Public Affairs Story (third place) - Dalton York News Story (first and second place) - Hannah Bullard Best College Digital Journalist - Hannah Bullard Best Radio Report - Dalton York
鈥淲KMS provides opportunities for our students to further develop their skills, add
compelling content to their portfolios and, increasingly, win competitions,鈥� said
Dr. Kevin Qualls, chairman of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications.
鈥淎nd our students are doing just that.鈥�
The WKMS students accounted for 40 percent of the awards in the college radio division.
鈥淲KMS is so grateful to partner with our Department of Journalism and Mass Communications
throughout the year to aid in their education of the principles and ethics of journalism,鈥�
said Chad Lampe, station manager of WKMS. 鈥淲e hope these students not only excel in
their careers beyond WKMS and 天美传媒, but also with an appreciation of the importance
of local journalism.鈥�
Dr. Stephanie Anderson, adviser to the 天美传媒 News during 2020-21, praised the
News staff and her JMC 398 students for their work on the website and the online newscast.
鈥淥ur students made the newscast their own when we had to pivot to online instruction
last spring,鈥� she said. 鈥淚鈥檓 proud that their work on TheNews.org during the pandemic
received such high honors.鈥�
天美传媒 students have won the best college digital journalist honors for four
consecutive years.
"Our student journalists worked hard during 2020 to continue to tell stories during
a pandemic that disrupted their academic lives. These entries came from their hard
work in student media and in our classes. We are thrilled that their outstanding work
received statewide recognition,鈥� said Leigh Wright, associate professor of journalism
and journalism curriculum coordinator.
Also, 天美传媒 competed with eleven teams to finish fourth in the ERPsim North
American business competition. ERPsim is a business simulation game where participants use an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to manage their virtual company in a competitive market.
James Ambler from Calvert City, Kentucky, Eric McClain from Evansville, Indiana, William
Sims from Owensboro, Kentucky, and James Webster from Clarksville, Tennessee indicated
an interest in competing in this tournament at the end of the semester. Dr. Teresa
Betts, associate professor of logistics and supply chain management in the Department
of Management, Marketing, and Business Administration, agreed to coach them whenever
they wanted to find time to practice. As an indication of the students' commitment
and interest, they met for a minimum of an hour, four nights a week, to prepare for
the competition. They moved from just understanding how Systems Applications and Products
(SAP) works to creating dashboards that worked with live data coming from the SAP
system so their team could be responsive to the changing business competition.
鈥淥ur students were competing against teams who had been in a course where they were
working with this simulation for a full semester, as well as teams that had already
competed in other ERPsim tournaments. Again, I just want to express how proud I am
of the effort, energy, and positive attitude this team put forth. I think we learned
a lot in the competition and it sounds like we already have some interest in engaging
in the competition in March of 2022,鈥� said Betts.
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