Teaching the fundamentals of creating a yearbook as been the cornerstone of our seminars. Each year we provide a solid foundation for all beginners and our students leave the workshop ready to start the new year.

With this in mind, B.A.Y.S. instructs students in layout design, interviewing, graphic design, artwork preparations, copy fitting, photographic planning, marketing, public relations, legalities, journalistic responsibilities, and quality journalism.

We understand that most schools send us students who intend to become an editor. In response, we offer separate general sessions designed to enhance student leadership skills while working on such subjects as: faculty and administrative concerns, communication with professionals and their fellow staff members, deadline management, publisher's production, and staff motivation.

This course will provide future and returning editors with materials and ideas that will make their yearbook successful.

This is a fourth year for this track that focuses on the yearbook's financial management, selling to the student body, and product planning.

Business Managers will develop a complete and personalized marketing plan for their 2010-2011 publication.

This is a perfect fit for those with 0 - 1 year of yearbook experience; as well as those who need new ideas and management skills. This is your chance to master the basics, ask those many unanswered questions and share you experience.

For the more experienced advisers, we provide an Adviser Roundtable course, which allows the advisers the freedom to attend any of the offered general courses at a reduced fee and, also, attend sessions on staff motivation.

The topics included are: staff recruiting, organizing a top-notch staff, deadline and time management, staff motivation, layout and design, graphics, yearbook trends, marketing and ad sales, working with your publisher, photographic planning, legalities, working with administration and your staff, and organizing a fun and effective distribution.

From basic computer operations to InDesign and YearTech, we focus on tasks that allow the student to prepare pages in their own yearbooks. This course is self-directed. However, our instructors help participants focus on materials, setting instruction and tasks to master the necessary skills, while leading the student through exercises that will familiarize them with the mastery of these skills.

This course is beginning to intermediate; the student participant will be directed at his/her own pace and progress as far as possible. Students spend all of their time in front of a computer, working on techniques that they can immediately use in their yearbooks.

An additional fee of $30 per person is required for this course.

This course covers from basic to advanced Photoshop functions. We focus on tasks that teach the students how to prepare cutting edge design elements for their own yearbook. Directed by one of our skilled instructors, this course will accomodate all levels of skills.

An additional fee of $30 per person is required for this course.

This course combines a solid footing in taking and planning pictures for the yearbook for every category: sports, groups, action and candid - with a proven system for organizing the photo portion of the yearbook.

The class is open to both beginner and advanced photographers, but only offered to students. Participants are required to bring a digital camera.

An additional fee of $45 per person is required for this course.

In this course we will cover basic to advanced YearTech Online functions. We focus on tasks that allow the students to learn how to prepare pages for their own yearbook. This course is directed by one of our instructors and can accommodate all levels of skill.

An additional fee of $30 per person is required for this course.