 High school students from around the area got mad at Bemidji State University today. As Malmire reports, the first ever Media, Art and Design Day gave hands-on experience for over a hundred talented students. And the laser which will start. BSU reached out to area educators within about a hundred miles of the campus asking for their best and brightest students who might want to go into the field. The high schoolers attended three of thirteen available sessions, such as judging some of the potential movies for the Headwaters Film Festival. We have films from all over the world and they're really high quality student films and they're inspiring and interesting and pretty amazing. Now this is a copy of the Northern Student. Taught by faculty members of the School of Integrated Media and the School of Technology, Art and Design, workshops like Create a Magazine cover provided a crash course introduction. Giving students an introduction to the InDesign software, which is the industry standard for us and showing them the elements of what goes into a magazine cover and how to create an effective magazine cover. Maddie Fleger says she was looking for a new experience and found it in this class. It's really fun to be able to do something hands-on and very interactive and have somebody actually showing you all the little pieces of the design. The workshops are incredibly helpful for many students who are considering what's next after high school. Sydney Rantz has never used this kind of software before, while she has a while before choosing a post-grad pursuit now is the perfect time to get her hooked. I hope to get more experience with different medias of art today. Josie Hahn says she's considering going to the University of Minnesota Duluth for psychology and pre-med with a minor in visual arts. I just wanted to see all of the different things that arts has to offer because I know there's so much different stuff that isn't offered at high schools. PSU staff hopes that this will help convince some that there are job opportunities and career growth in the field. We also want to expose them to different degrees that are here at the University so they can look at that and say, oh geez, there's all kinds of things that I can do to make a living in those areas. In Bemidji, I'm Al Meyer, Lakeland News. Other workshops featured during the day included a virtual reality experience, logo casting and video game design. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.