Dave Davis started a Broadcast Journalism class at Hillcrest High School in the fall of 1989. Since then, the school's student-produced show, "HTV Magazine," has become one of the nation's most-honored high school broadcasts. Focusing on issues and events of interest to teenagers, "HTV Magazine" has the national record for Broadcast Pacemaker awards (11) and Robert F. Kennedy High School Journalism awards (6). The show has also won five "Excellence" awards from the Student Television Network (STN), which Davis helped found in 1999, and three national Awards for Excellence, often called the "student Emmy," from the National Association of Television Arts and Science (NATAS).

In an effort to provide valuable, useful, hands-on instruction to broadcast teachers from across the nation, Davis started "Camp STN" in the summer of 2000. Since then, the week-long workshop has provided training for hundreds of high school and middle school teachers from 47 states, plus England and Japan. Davis has been a frequent speaker at the STN national convention, which he founded and chaired for five years, and has taken Camp STN to LA, Chicago, Las Vegas, and Boston.

In the spring of 2009 he was named the Springfield (MO) Public Schools Teacher of the Year. Davis has taught at Hillcrest since 1983, and was the school's head baseball coach for ten seasons, winning a state championship in 1988. He says he often incorporates techniques he used as a coach when training his broadcast students. He lives in Springfield with wife Martha, and has two daughters who remain in the area. Davis got his undergraduate degree at Evangel University, and his Master's degree at Drury University, both in Springfield, MO.

Brian Campbell is in his sixth year as the Broadcasting, Speech, and Theatre Adviser for Summit Lakes Middle School in Lee’s Summit.  This is Brian’s fifteenth year of teaching and sixth year as lead teacher for the Broadcasting and Theatre Department. In 2009, Brian was a recipient of the Lee’s Summit School District’s Excellence in Teaching Award.  Falconvision, Summit Lakes’ broadcasting program, has grown from 30 students in 2005 to 200 students this school year under Brian’s direction.  Falconvision is proud to be an award winning program both nationally in 2009 as part of STN’s Fall Nationals, and locally since 2008 as part of the Kansas City Film Festival. Eighth grade students at Summit Lakes learn camera and computer basics and editing with Final Cut Express. This year makes Brian’s thrid year as a teacher at Camp ASB and he’s excited to meet a new group ready for an intense learning experience.

Brian has an undergraduate degree in Psychology from William Jewell College, a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction in Secondary Education, and holds certification in the areas of Social Studies, Speech, and Theatre.  Brian is a life long resident of Kansas City.

Currently a student at Evangel University in Springfield, MO, Mehleena is a member of the HTV Hall of Fame, honored for her accomplishments as a high school broadcaster.

She won a regional student Emmy for writing, and led the staff of "HTV Magazine" to its fifth consecutive "STN Excellence Award" her senior year when she was the HTV News Director, the top staff position. She was an anchor, reporter, photographer and all-around journalist, and now she provides expertise in all of those areas for the workshops.

She is majoring in social work, and has produced promotional videos for her university. Mehleena first became familiar with ASB when she attended the student camp as a freshman in high school. She has been on staff since 2009.

An independent video producer by the age of 18, Brandon has won numerous regional awards for his directing, videography and production of short films and video projects during the last ten years. He has worked professionally on music videos for the band "Mute Math" and vocalist Jeremy Larson. He has produced a variety of corporate videos for companies across the U.S. in recent years, and he is also a documentary producer and videographer.

Brandon returned to college after establishing his production business, and will earn his degree in Broadcast Journalism in the spring of 2011 from Missouri State University.

He has been on the ASB staff for six years, and provides training in shooting, editing, writing, and interviewing. He is also the voice of the Academy of Scholastic Broadcasting's "Video Coach" series of training discs.

Dr. Wes "Doc" Leggett established the media program for gifted middle school students in Springfield (MO) Public Schools the fall of 1989. Over the next seven years, the program grew from producing videos to broadcasting daily live television shows on cable access. The student productions and broadcasts garnered numerous local, state, and regional awards, honors, and recognition. Dr. Leggett also established summer video production and scholastic broadcasting classes for Springfield Schools and for the pre-college programs at Drury University. In 1994, he was honored as a finalist for the Springfield Schools Teacher of the Year.

In 1996, Dr. Leggett moved to Colorado to obtain his Ph.D. where a two-year leave of absence unexpectedly turned into a permanent relocation. Since then, he has directed and managed technology centers, taught elementary gifted and technology classes, taught undergraduate and graduate educational technology courses, and supervised student teachers for Windsor (CO) Public Schools, the University of Northern Colorado, and the Metropolitan State College of Denver. He currently is one of Drury University’s graduate online professors and serves as the Poudre School District’s Student Information Analyst in Fort Collins, CO.

Dr. Leggett has been a long-time senior instructor for ASB and has also served as a national contest coordinator and judge for the Student Television Network. He lives in Windsor, CO, with his wife Dea and their three adult children who remain in the area. Dr. Leggett received his undergraduate degree in Art Education at Missouri State University, his Master's degree in Gifted Education at Drury University, and his Ph.D. in Educational Technology at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.

Elaine McDonald is starting her sixth year as the Broadcast Adviser for Lee’s Summit High School’s Tiger Broadcast. After attending several STN Broadcast Camps and Conferences over the years, she has grown the Tiger Broadcast program from ten students to over eighty students, teaching students camera basics, editing and most importantly how to tell a story. Tiger Broadcast has also earned many awards including 2nd runner up for STN Broadcaster of the Year (2010), many JEA state awards, several STN awards and two students have been presenters at the STN Closing Ceremonies.

Elaine begins her 3rd year of teaching at ASB Student Camp and loves every minute of getting to know the students, teaching them how to work as a team and how to write a script. 

Elaine has two undergraduate degrees- one from Missouri State University in Media Production; one from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in Secondary Education-emphasis in English. She also has her Master’s Degree in Administration from the University of Central Missouri.

Brian moved his video production company onto the Drury Campus in 2002 and began producing videos for the university. He taught a video production class in 2003 and immediately knew he wanted to teach for the rest of his life. He now teaches Principles of Videography 1 & 2, Interviewing and Anchoring, Studio Production, Advanced Television Production and Documentary and Media Activities.

Brian has 21 years of professional media experience as a broadcast journalist, photographer, producer and editor. While working at local NBC affiliate KYTV he won 2 Mid-America Emmy Awards for feature and spot news. The Associated Press twice awarded Brian first place for investigative reporting during his years as a reporter at KFSM TV in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

For the past 5 years, Brian has owned and operated his own video production company specializing in corporate marketing for various clients across the midwest. Brian's latest work is an aviation documentary hosted and narrated by academy award winning actor Cliff Robertson. The documentary entitled "L Bird, the little plane that did" debuted on national television in November 2010.

Karrie Smythia has taught broadcast journalism for 12 years.  During her six years at Lee’s Summit High School her students captured many state and national awards including the first ever Excellence Award through the Student Television Network.  She has had two students named student of the year through STN.

In 2004 she started the broadcasting program at Lee’s Summit West High School and has spent the past six years there.  In 2007 she had a third student named student of the year.  Her students have won many local, state and national awards through organizations such as JEA, STN, MODOT, MIPA, NSPA and the All-State Foundation to name a few.

Smythia spent three years as the treasurer for the annual STN Convention.  She was on staff for four years before taking over as the director of the ASB Student Camp in 2009.  She and her staff have taught more than 30 students from over 10 states broadcast journalism skills.  Many of these students have gone on to win awards and are now leaders in their programs.

Mike is a senior member of the ASB staff, providing expert training in Final Cut Pro, lighting, set design, videography, graphic design and website management. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, Evangel University, and is a graduate of Hillcrest High School, home of "HTV Magazine."

Mike is a web designer, and helped produce the "Video Coach, Volume One". He has worked on hundreds of print design projects, and has worked as art director for live broadcast projects, and has extensive experience in location lighting and sound.

Mike was the art director for the STN National Convention from 2004 to 2008. When he is not doing workshops, Mike continues to consult for a number of web design projects for schools and businesses.