This page provides an outline for how to build a senior showcase achievement in Merit. In order to personalize the achievement for your students you will need to prepare a spreadsheet of student data to use as placeholders throughout the achievement. Here are the placeholders used in this story:
- FIRST NAME*
- LAST NAME*
- HOMETOWN*
- ZIP CODE*
- EMAIL ADDRESS*
*= Data required by Merit
Achievement Title & Summary
Your achievement title and summary will be used for the online version of your story and shared across social media. They will also appear on your school's Merit page.
Your summary should act as a comprehensive overview of the achievement. After your summary, readers will see a list of students who are part of the story.
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Achievement Title: Students Featured in Merit University Senior Showcase Achievement Summary: Merit University's Fashion for Life runway show was held at the Mugatu Theatre on Nov. 20. The fashion show featured 11 senior apparel design students' collections that represented their personal design philosophy and target market. Fashion for Life is the culmination of a capstone experience that students start preparing for before their senior year. After researching, planning and buying fabrics over the summer, students begin constructing garments for their collection when school starts in the fall. Students are able to apply all of the technical and creative skillsets they have learned in the apparel design program into this course. |
Individual Story
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Headline: [FIRST] [LAST] Featured in Merit University Senior Showcase Body: [FIRST] [LAST], a Merit University senior from [HOMETOWN], was part of Merit University's Fashion for Life runway show at the Mugato Theatre on Nov. 20. The fashion show featured 11 senior apparel design students' collections that represented their personal design philosophy and target market. |
Group Press Release
This is the version of your press release that will be sent to newspapers interested in multiple students from your spreadsheet. It's a local story that will include a list of only the students from a paper's coverage area.
Your group press release will have an opening, repeating and closing section. The opening and repeating sections will be the same for every newspaper. The repeating section will contain all of your placeholders and will be the only part of the press release that varies from paper to paper. Use the last sentence of your opening to introduce your list of students.
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Headline: Local Students Featured in Merit University Senior Showcase Opening: Merit University's Fashion for Life runway show was held at the Mugatu Theatre on Nov. 20. The fashion show featured 11 senior apparel design students' collections that represented their personal design philosophy and target market. Seniors whose work was featured during the showcase included: Repeating: [FIRST] [LAST], of [HOMETOWN] Closing: Fashion for Life is the culmination of a capstone experience that students start preparing for before their senior year. After researching, planning and buying fabrics over the summer, students begin constructing garments for their collection when school starts in the fall. Students are able to apply all of the technical and creative skillsets they have learned in the apparel design program into this course. |
Note: Merit will automatically add your saved boilerplate to the closing section of your group press release.
Add Images and Publish
Achievements are at their best with images included. If possible, include a photo with your story. Get a picture of the achievement in action or a group shot of the students involved. If you're unable to include a photo, instead consider using a school or department logo. The image(s) you choose will appear on your online stories and also go to media recipients.
Use this template as inspiration to publish your next achievement. Log into your Merit account here. If you’re looking for more details on how to build this template into the Merit achievement workflow you can follow the step by step tutorial here.