![Media School students walk down a street surrounded by trees](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/walking-down-the-road-640x269.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Mississippi beauty
Junior Kate Gillum hopes the students' videos will encourage people from all over the country to enjoy this special place.
![Katie Gillum films an interview with park director of communications Brent Everitt](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/filming-park-ranger-1-640x366.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Eight days in the real world
Junior Tatom O'Donnell looks back on eight days doing rewarding work in a beautiful place.
![Gulf Islands National Seashore director of communications Brett Everitt gives junior Spencer Bowman feedback on a video.](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/critiques2-640x480.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Creating client-centered content
Senior Shannon Young is learning to balance her creative vision with the client's needs.
![A park ranger and three students walking on a boardwalk through a field](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/ship-island-1-640x480.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
An off-season island
Senior Naphtalia Ruth led her team on a trip to the deserted Ship Island.
![A circle of feet pointing at each other](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/feet-640x427.jpg)
Ernie stood here
Senior Melissa Dvojacki and the other Footsteps of Ernie Pyle students get closer to Ernie Pyle than ever before.
![Ernie Pyle Scholars pose in front of the entrance to the Poynter Instiute for Media Studies](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/Group-at-Poynter-640x427.jpg)
Ernie Pyle Scholars at Poynter
When the right call isn’t the easy one: Making ethical decisions on deadline
The mistake editors often make is feeling trapped into binary decisions, writes sophomore Jacob deCastro.
![Roy Peter Clark speaks the to classroom as Joe Schroeder watches.](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/RPC-640x427.jpg)
Ernie Pyle Scholars at Poynter
Ernie Pyle Scholars learn the connection between music and writing from Roy Peter Clark
Sophomore Jaden Amos and the other Ernie Pyle Scholars were unsure about the man with the keyboard and the Pee-wee Herman doll when he first walked in.
![A gruop of students poses at the newsdesk in the ESPN Mexico studio.](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/ESPN-Mexico-640x480.jpg)
A Hoosier win in Mexico
In one day, senior Juan Alvarado covered a Hoosier victory, toured ESPN Mexico and attended a professional wrestling night.
![Lilly Sanders, Jamie Skigen, Katie McGinnis, Jack Bassett, and Michael Skiles on the ferry across the English Channel](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/ferry-ride-640x344.jpg)
A beautiful welcome to France
A turbulent ferry ride across the English Channel ended with a rainbow sighting for senior Katie McGinnis and the rest of the Footsteps of Ernie Pyle travelers.
![A turtle in the water](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/turtle-640x427.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
First takes
Junior Chris Mura spent the day filming park animals and activities.
![People looking into the bottom of a glass-bottom boat](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/glass-bottom-boat-640x480.jpg)
Reporting War and Peace in Okinawa
In search of a glass-bottom boat
Senior Autumn Schoolman didn't let the Japanese-English language barrier stop her from seeing the world’s largest blue coral structure recorded.
![](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/billboards-640x375.jpg)
Reporting War and Peace in Okinawa
Juxtapositions
A somber day immediately transitions into an evening of singing and dancing for senior Autumn Schoolman.
![View through a tunnel at Fort Massachusetts](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/sally-port-copy-640x399.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Discovering Fort Massachusetts
Junior Emma Sonnenberg could feel Fort Massachusetts' rich history as she walked in the grass courtyard, wandered through the dark archways and climbed the spiraling staircases.
![An alligator in a marsh](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/Alligator-640x427.jpg)
Gulf Islands National Seashore
Park ranger for a day
Sophomore Sam Arvin spends a day tagging along on ranger-led tours of the park.
![Gaby Benninghoff and Ryan Reske looking at cherry blossom trees](https://sites.mediaschool.indiana.edu/travel/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2019/03/cherry-blossoms-640x424.jpg)
International Game Design Practices
Bad habits
Adjusting to a different culture’s standards and habits is difficult, master's student Emma Rausch observes.