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All articles featured had in-depth reporting and were written by me, aside from collaborations and my work at my internship with Central Florida Public Media in Orlando, FL. Each article for UCF reflects compelling storytelling and delivers valuable information to readers. 

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A splash for inclusion: UCF hosts third Accessibility Splash

Three UCF departments hosted the third annual Accessibility Splash on Friday across from the Reflecting Pond, offering an inclusive space for students during the university’s Homecoming tradition, Spirit Splash.The Accessibility Splash provides students with accessibility barriers and members of the UCF veteran community an opportunity to receive a duck and a Spirit Splash shirt.
This collaboration is between the Office of Military and Veteran Student Success, the Ginsburg Center for Inc...
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UCF provides art therapy for veteran students and staff

With paper, pencils and ink, veteran students and staff created therapeutic works of art at the “Ink, Inspiration, & Insight” event on Wednesday in the lobby of UCF's Office of Military and Veteran Student Success.Veteran students and staff were invited to this event as a way for them to express creativity and decompress. This event was a part of the MVSS Wellness Series, which is new this semester and helps bring awareness to October as Mental Health Awareness Month.
Guest Kevin Haran,...
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Theatre UCF premieres first-ever production of 'The River Bride'

Showcasing a story of magic, love and sacrifice, Theatre UCF debuted its first-ever performance of “The River Bride” on Sept. 18 at the Black Box Theatre on campus.The play by Marisela Treviño Orta brings audiences an adult fairytale inspired by Brazilian folklore, in which two sisters must choose between family and their hearts when a mysterious man appears from the Amazon River.
The team behind “The River Bride” began working on the production in January, and casting and rehearsals for...
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‘Bingo 4 Life’ event brings awareness for National Suicide Prevention Month

Valencia Counseling used bingo to raise awareness about suicide prevention, offering prizes and resources to students at its “Bingo 4 Life” event on Sept. 9 in the Union West Student Living building.
At the doors, Valencia College student wellness advocates Ana Garcia, a sophomore communications major, and Maria Rodriguez, a sophomore criminal justice major, offered students cherry snow cones, a bingo card with an EXPO marker and an assortment of suicide awareness pins, wristbands and flyers....
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Federal tariff impacts Orlando coffee company

Local coffee shops that roast their own beans, such as Orlando's KOS Coffee, are being affected by a tariff that was implemented on April 5 by President Donald Trump.This 10% tariff on imported goods is driving up costs for many companies, including coffee roasters in Orlando and across the U.S. The tariff, listed on a fact sheet from the White House, applies to coffee imports from key origin countries. Since coffee is not grown in the continental United States, roasters rely on international so...
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Slashed budget, uncertain leadership. What’s ahead for NASA?

This past weekend, the Trump administration withdrew its nomination of Jared Isaacman for NASA Administrator. This sets back the nomination timeline by months, leaving NASA without a permanent leader.The decision is reportedly political motivated and not related to Isaacman’s qualifications.Eric Berger, senior space editor at Ars Technica, said the decision comes as a surprise. Isaacman had broad support inside NASA, had donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity for cancer research and...
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Artemis II is closer to flight and Voyager’s thrusters get a deep space fix

Lockheed Martin, the prime contractor for Orion, NASA’s new deep space crew capsule, has completed work for the agency's Artemis II mission which will send four astronauts to the moon and back as early as 2026.Orion is said to be the most advanced deep space vehicle ever made and has been under development for several years.Paul Anderson, deputy program Manager for Orion at Lockheed Martin, said the delivery of the spacecraft to NASA is a major milestone for both Lockheed Martin and for the agen...
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Varda's hat trick and Earth’s twin Venus

Commercial company Varda Space has successfully accomplished three low-Earth orbit space missions in the past two years, with each capsule returning safely.Varda is currently developing the first remote pharmaceutical manufacturing platform off of Earth.The company has been launching capsules into orbit to conduct autonomous research, including experiments in the pharmaceutical and hypersonic travel industries.The company’s focus is on increasing the number of successful missions and the pace of...
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UCF Children’s Choir performs at Spring Concert

The UCF Children’s Choir performance brought music to Tuskawilla United Methodist Church on Monday evening as several children’s voices echoed throughout the sanctuary. The choir started in the fall of 2021 and Courtney Connelly, one of the founders and lead directors of the choir, said it welcomes children from all over Orlando to come and sing. This includes Orange and Seminole County and grades first through fifth. The choir also has a Facebook group that shares content such as photos and vid...
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Neptune Community welcomes spring with 'Tune in Bloom' event

With breezy weather, spring festivities and therapy bunnies, Neptune Community housing on campus hosted its first-ever "Tune in Bloom" event on March 26 at the Neptune Courtyard.A goal of UCF housing is to host events that align with UCF's Belonging, Engaging, Achieving, Meaning Model. Each community at UCF housing comes up with an event that would align with these goals. For The Neptune Community this semester, coordinators Hailey Bodick and Timothy Duguay came up with the idea to host a spring...
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UCF’s sixth annual Bassoon Workshop elevates students skills with mentorship

UCF students and local bassoon players gathered in the Rehearsal Hall for UCF’s sixth annual Bassoon Workshop on Saturday morning. Karissa Sibley, freshman music education major, attended the event and said in middle school she originally wanted to play the saxophone, but then she fell in love with the bassoon. Sibley said she thought the event was really valuable.
“I wasn’t only learning things that I can apply to bassoon, but also apply to teaching in my future as well,” Sibley said. “...
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Senior Girl’s Advice" Bible study provides support to students

With their Bibles open on a table and heart-shaped cookies to enjoy, two students began their first “Senior Girl’s Advice” Bible study of the semester.Members of Baptist Collegiate Ministries, Julianna Diaz, president of BCM, and Natalia Diaz, freshman aerospace engineering major, started the meeting with reflective questions that Julianna Diaz gave the freshman to answer and think about as they talked throughout the study.This session focused on giving senior-girl advice as a way to help Christ...
Central Florida Public Media •

Special Hearts Farm sows place and purpose for its workers

Worked in collaboration on this audio story with Alyssa Hendry. This piece also won a award as a finalist piece in college radio at the Florida Association of Broadcast Journalists Convention. Special Hearts Farm isn’t a typical farm. While workers do grow vegetables, collect chicken eggs to sell and, occasionally, take poop samples from the animals, its purpose is more than agriculture. Special Hearts Farm is a non-profit organization that provides beneficial farming and gardening experiences for individuals with autism and intellectual disabilities to support them with work opportunities once they’ve left the K-12 school system.The program started back in 2014 at Dr. Phillips High S...
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Abortion, economy driving some young Central Florida voters to polls

With the election about a month away, we’ve been talking about the youth vote. Candidates are working to court young people here in Central Florida, but what’s actually driving them to vote? It’s a question a group of UCF Nicholson School of Communication and Media students set out to answer by interviewing fellow students about the issues driving them to the polls this election year.Lucy Dillon is a 19-year-old student. She said the state constitutional amendments, like making school boards non...
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Rave to the Grave creates a night of hardcore music in Memory Mall

Rave to the Grave hosted by the Campus Activities Board at UCF truly had students “in their graves” by the end of the event on Thursday night with an evening full of electronic music and spooky Halloween costumes. In the heart of Memory Mall, the event started with music played by DJs apart of Knights of the Turntables, the official audio entertainment company at UCF. 
One of the DJs at the event, William Johnson, also known as inqu, is a senior studying mass communications in production...