Nine Burnaby students get spots as CBC student reporters
Nine of 30 finalists for a spot as a 2012 News Day in B.C. student reporter are from Burnaby high schools.
The Burnaby participants are Megan Arora and Amar Mangat of Burnaby South, Allison Graham of Cariboo Hill, Linette Ho, Hyunsoo Kanyamuna and Olivia Pink, of Moscrop, Umang Khandelwal and Raisa Shabbir of Burnaby North, Danielle Kyei of Alpha.
The students competed with more than 250 entrants pitching their story ideas at the CBC Vancouver Broadcast Centre. Finalists will spend the next few weeks producing their stories for broadcast on March 29 on CBC TV and radio news, and will co-host segments and perform reporting duties. Each student will also receive a $1,000 scholarship from Sylvan Learning.
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