ATHENS, Ohio -- Nearly 90 high school students will hone their journalism skills during the 57th annual High School Journalism Workshop at Ohio University's E.W. Scripps School of Journalism from June 20 through June 22.

For the second year, the Scripps Howard Foundation is supporting the workshop by providing grants for 35 minority and other underrepresented students to attend and is funding two competitive $5,000 scholarships to Ohio University's Scripps School. The Scripps Foundation is also funding the participation of a student and faculty member from Hampton (Va.) University. A June 19 pre-workshop program for grant students, called Future Communicator Day, will provide an orientation to the Scripps School and Ohio University.

Most of the workshop participants are high-school newspaper editors, writers and advisors from Ohio, with about a dozen of the attendees from out of state.

"The participants will be involved in interactive, hands-on practice in virtually all aspects of journalism, including insights from the newsroom, the business side and ethics," workshop coordinator Lisa Lopez Snyder said.

Ohio University Scripps School faculty and staff members, professional journalists and newspaper advisors will be among the workshop staff.

"A strength of this workshop is the diverse mix of participants," Lopez Snyder said. "It offers not only an opportunity for students of varied backgrounds to learn and experience basic journalism techniques, but it also provides a chance for students and faculty to experience learning within today's growing multicultural environment."