Advisers

As an adviser, you are not required to attend with your students. However, if you do join us (which we love!) and bring at least 5 students from your school, then we give you a perk as our way to say thank you. Upon bringing your five students, you will get $200 off of your Media Now Drake registration adviser fee*. Email [email protected] to get your code.

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*Cannot be combined with any other offer.

How PrePay Registration Works

Our prepay registration allows our advisers looking to get an invoice set up for their school and an option to pay for their camper’s registrations. Once you fill out the prepay form, we’ll send the invoice and a code that your designated students can use when filling out their registration. This code we provide is the only way they can bypass individual payment during the registration process. This works whether you have the names of the students you’re looking to send to camp at the time of registration or not. Email [email protected] with any questions.

Our prepay registration allows our advisers looking to get an invoice set up for their school and an option to pay for their camper’s registrations. Once you fill out the prepay form, we’ll send the invoice and a code that your designated students can use when filling out their registration. This code we provide is only way they can bypass individual payment during the registration process. This works whether you have the names of the students you’re looking to send to camp at the time of registration or not. Email [email protected] with any questions.

Prepay for your students and yourself using this form ›

Great! We would love to have your team join us. Just note that we request groups of 10+ students staying overnight on campus at Drake University to have an adviser or chaperone attend or stay in the dorms with them. To prepay for your students, you can get an invoice and prepaid codes for your students to use to complete their registration.

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We’d LOVE for you to join us at Media Now even without your students. We encourage you to select a course that best fits your needs, which may or may not be the adviser course. Maybe you need to deep dive into video because you just found out you’re teaching broadcast next year or you could benefit from focused time to better understand how to update and run your website. At Media Now you can take any course you need to meet your personal growth and classroom goals. We also have adviser breakouts that allow time for you to meet and share ideas with the other advisers at the camp. Let us know if you need direction in choosing and we’d be happy to help.

We build in time for advisers to get together and exchange ideas throughout the camp as well, whether you’re in a specific course or elect to be in the Adviser Class, we’ll make sure these connections happen. Because, let’s face it, at the end of the day, your students come and go, but your adviser network stays in place and can support and help you build your program year after year.

For our overnight camp at Drake University, we give our advisers their own single room on a separate floor away from the students to ensure that you get a good night’s rest and a break from teen time. Our gracious host, Drake University, has also offered alternative housing options outside of the dorms. We will have more details shared with you when those become available. For now, know that you won't be sharing space with any students and we'll be covering room checks.

We’re offering a bus from St. Louis to Drake University for students and advisers. Seats are limited and the round-trip ticket is $50. More on the bus can be found here.

We can take care of that too. Whether you go through the full registration process or use our prepay form, you have an option to pay by invoice. We will send that invoice to your email within 3- 5 days.

We've got you. The school year support is available in a Media Now Editor Training program with Sarah Nichols and Aaron Manfull. This online opportunity mixes email, Slack conversations and virtual meet-ups to provide essential training for student newsroom leaders. Check out the program and get your class signed up (unlimited students per classroom) for $125 all here in the Media Now Editor Training program.

We encourage your students to apply for a scholarship. Each year we award six full-ride scholarships where essays are reviewed and winners are selected by the Drake University staff. We want to make this camp a viable option for anyone who wishes to attend and grow as a student journalist.

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Many of our advisers will raise funds in their communities or schools to help students come to camp. We also do outreach to businesses and news organizations to gather additional funding to support students who wouldn’t be able to attend without that additional help. Consider reaching out to your local news outlets, PTO or community leaders. You may be surprised at the assistance they will provide when they know it’s going directly to pay to further a student’s education in this way. Please contact us if you have ideas, questions or need further funding assistance to get you or your students to camp.

Find out more here.