Yearbook Production
Searching for that perfect theme? Join our yearbook track and spark your creativity. Whether you're a first-time contributor or a veteran editor-in-chief, you'll uncover fresh approaches to telling the story of your year. While brainstorming and crafting thematic elements, you will also develop your skills in design, photography, and storytelling and leave camp with a solid plan for your yearbook – giving you a head start when school begins.
Co-Instructor: Brian Wilson, Palo Alto High School, California
Brian Wilson is the 2022 California Journalism Adviser of the Year and advises the Madrono yearbook and two magazines, C Mag (arts & culture) and Viking (sports) at Palo Alto (CA) High School, where he has taught for the last seven years. Before heading to California, he was an adviser for 18 years in Michigan. Wilson is past-president of both JEA-NorCal and the Michigan Interscholastic Press Association. He was Michigan’s 2009 ‘Golden Pen’ winner as state journalism adviser of the year, a 2011 JEA Distinguished Yearbook Adviser, and a 2014 DJNF Special Recognition Adviser. He also enjoys reading, spending time with family, playing drums in a rock band, and blogging about baseball stadiums.
Co-Instructor: Erica Brockmoller, CJE, Lexington High School, Nebraska
Erica has been an integral part of journalism camp since 2011, and was a camper here herself in high school. As a counselor, she worked to build up the energy at camp and was always a integral contributor to the mandatory fun J-camp tradition. Her energy was noticed by Emily Arnold, who was needing a person to run the yearbook track with her, and when I told her she could choose someone she would like to work with, and we’d pay that person to come to camp, she chose Erica. So from counselor to camp speaker she went, and she helps make camp an unforgettable experience. She has been a journalism adviser in Lexington, Nebraska since 2010.
