Camp Orlando hosts social media contest

Ellie Symons and Jos Wirbel

July 17, 2024

Midnight bites. J.W. Mitchell shares their snack stash for working late nights for their TikTok. These students wanted to show a positive aspect to Camp Orlando. “We don’t want to show people only the negative parts because this camp is not negative,” Jayna Jacklin said.

Jupiter High School student Wade Ryan Del Portal spent the first afternoon of yearbook camp arguing with his friend about what trend they should use for a social media contest.

On Monday, July 16, Camp Orlando hosted a social media contest open to all schools with the prompt, “Tell me you’re on a publication without telling me you’re on a publication.” Content could be submitted as a photo or video and was due at 7 p.m.

“We felt that it would be kind of easy,” Del Portal said. “And we were walking around past the pool before we were going to class and she nudged me and was like, ‘Yo, let’s make a TikTok for this.’ The TikTok that I wanted to do, she didn’t want to do so I didn’t get to do my idea.”

Jupiter High School’s TikTok included the two students gazing out into the distance with the audio saying “I might just stay here a while.” While some started the challenge at the camp, other groups, such as those from Oasis High School, submitted videos they had already created before the challenge. Students such as Reese Robin regularly create content for their publications, with one Oasis Yearbook’s TikTok gathering over 4 million views.

“It was something that could get the whole class involved and the whole class could do something,” Robin said. “We each class member write down something that they thought was unique to our book, and then they got to be in the video.”

While Oasis High School may have submitted a previously made video, Jupiter High School felt inspired by the competition aspect of the contest.

“Everything you do should be to try to win,” Del Portal said. “You don’t play to lose.”

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About the Contributors

Ellie Symons, Editor-In-Chief

Ellie Symons is a senior at Dreyfoos School of the Arts and the Co-Editor-In-Chief of her school’s news magazine, The Muse. As an EIC, Symons’s responsibility spans every aspect of her publication’s coverage. While her work may sometimes be stressful and daunting, she puts hours into The Muse not because she must, but because she has found her passion in the newsroom. Outside of newspaper class, she works as the communications director of two student organizations. Her positions in both projects are dedicated to serving her community using her journalistic talents. Expanding her horizons, Symons has challenged herself during several news-based internships. This need for knowledge stems from her belief in the importance of free thought. “America is getting to a scary point where their opinions are just opinion based and not fact based, so I would like to inform people,” Symons said.

Jos Wirbel, Staff writer

Jos Wirbel is a Senior at Horizon and editor in Chief of the ‘In Flight’. This is Jos fourth year on staff. Horizon was a new school her freshman year, has been on staff since it opened. “ I’m excited, but I’m also terrified because there is a lot of pressure to build up from what it was left.” Jos has many goals for a great magazine and yearbook. Such as, “cohesive look” for both magazine and yearbook. Horizon is located close to Disney so they have great view of the firework shows, “Which is my favorite thing about our photos”.While Jos isn’t managing yearbook, she is also captain of the flag football team, as well as does volunteer work for Special Olympics. Jos is a student in the AICE program has been for the past three years. “ I like it more than AP.. I feel like I can write and I love writing”. In her future Jos hopes to “help a movie.. then be able to go on the red carpet for it”.