Tiger pride prospers through new Instagram account
by Max Kleiner '19
High School students promote school spirit and share their perspective through school-approved social media account. This article appears courtesy of The Peabody Press.
High School students promote school spirit and share their perspective through school-approved social media account. This article appears courtesy of The Peabody Press.
The much-anticipated @TigerPride Instagram is finally here. The account is active on Instagram, and every student is encouraged to follow it.
For years, students and adults have failed to connect on social media. The new Tiger Pride Instagram is a fresh addition to the social media for USN, and its goal is to help resolve this problem.
The account is run by students Zoe Lewis '18, Leigh Fox '18, Isaiah Frank '17, Savannah Groos '17, Braelyn Watt '17 and Camilla Caldwell '17. These students were picked as the best matches for the job and will meet about posts and the account.
Before, the school has had Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts, but they have been in the hands of administrators. The students were mainly on Instagram and Twitter, but now the USN students can engage in the USN social media realm and stay connected with their school through an account that is student run.
Senior Braelyn Watt said the account will be open about posts, and they will pertain to any student related activity.
“It will be about athletics, but it’s not only restricted to that. Basically, anything a USN student is doing or a school related event,” said Watt.
The account has hopes to eliminate any other school related Instagram accounts that exist now and allow students to have a reliable information source for student related activities.
Anna Myint, the faculty advisor for the Tiger Pride Instagram account, said their goal is concrete, and that they are working hard to achieve it.
“The goal is to kind of get everyone involved into one account and so we can kind of get rid of some of the rogue accounts we have and so instead of ten followers, we can have an account that people know they can rely on.”
Anna Myint said the account is in the students’ hands, and they are choosing what to do with it, though they do have an outline and requirements of what to post.
“This is a completely student-run account so I am kind of leaving it up to them,” said Myint. “If they want to meet they can meet and they were purposefully picked because on the applications they had to fill out they talked about different areas of the school they represented so I’m hoping that they will not just stick to that but use it as a guide for other things that come up.”
Jagasia said the account will be open to submissions, as long as they are school appropriate and relating to the account’s basic guidelines of student-related events. They will get photos from the students who run the account who take pictures or videos at a certain event. This will allow for people who could not make it to the event to see how it was and get a better feel for what went on.
“[The pictures will come] from events that the student admins go to...[and] from photos that they get sent,” said Jagasia.
The creators of the account hope to create a steady means of communication with not only students but also faculty who are on Instagram. Everyone will now be able to keep up with the events going on that they might not have been able to attend or see an event they attended from a different standpoint.
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