Taking to the airwaves
Lee Hughes Staff Writer | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 10 years, 3 months AGO
<p>Sandpoint Waldorf School eighth grader Maren Andrick in the KRFY-FM radio sound booth Friday. Andrick has been learning how to produce a podcast as part of her class internship program at the station, and has recorded some station promotional material. (Photo by LEE HUGHES)</p>
SANDPOINT — If you’re a listener of Sandpoint’s local community radio station, KRFY-FM, you may have heard a new, youthful voice on the air.
That voice belongs to Sandpoint Waldorf School eighth-grader Maren Andrick, who has been serving as an intern at the station since October. The internship is a rite of passage for all Waldorf students, who are required to individually pursue and immerse themselves in a business or profession in the community. The process as well as the internships are intended to strengthen students’ self-confidence and to establish a mentoring relationship with an adult. It broadens their horizons, according to eighth-grade teacher Julie McCallan, who has been with her students since the first grade.
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