Teen Finds Niche In Talk Air Waves
It’s like writing a school paper for Meagan Ting, one of the hosts of Teen Talk at Chico’s public radio station, KZFR.
She researches a topic, say, mental illness by surfing the Internet, talking to friends or bouncing ideas off her sometimes co-host, Amber McCready. “We e-mail it back and forth until it’s done,” she said.
By the time she has finished her research, instead of writing an essay and turning it into one of her teachers in the ACT program at Chico High School, she reads it. Out loud. On her own radio show.
Meagan became interested in Teen Talk as a sophomore when Chico High English teacher Chris Persson connected her with Ed Pitman, who was then adult supervisor for the program.
The idea of talking on the radio for up to an hour was a little daunting.
Photo by ChicoER.com.
cassy on November 30th, 2008 1:27 am
Sounds so interesting! As a teen, talking on radio can help her improve her skills and help her speaking ability. Its already a start for her success.
Keep it Up!
Jaclyn on December 2nd, 2008 1:45 pm
This is an awesome story for a teen! I can remember being a teen in high school being terrified of making speech’s of any kind in front of a classroom little own an entire school. while yes it’s on the radio and the kid’s are not right in front of you…they still know it’s you and are listening to your every word and still waiting for you to mess up…this is a great thing that she’s doing and it will no doubt help her tremendously in the future.
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