CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – The Clarksville Police Department’s Professional Integrity Unit recently recruited students from Rossview High School (RHS) to help design new sweatshirts with a fresh, youthful perspective.
The sweatshirts are intended to be worn by officers during recruitment and training.
Captain Ty Burdine and Sgt. Rodney Lifsey met with Academy of Media Arts and Technology teacher Hannah Brooks to get input from her students.
The RHS Academy of Media Arts and Technology Work Based Learning Class is a hands-on design program which presents students with the opportunity to become masters of photography, digital illustration, branding, and many other aspects of graphic design. The pinnacle of this experience comes for them during their senior year when they get to work with real world clients, like Clarksville Police Department, and create real products to gain an immersive understanding of what the design industry is like, how to communicate in a client and designer partnership, and how to professionally execute design projects from start to finish.
Captain Burdine and Sgt. Lifsey engaged with the students and solicited their ideas for a slogan and design for a Recruitment and Training Sweatshirt. They fielded several questions from the students and imparted the department’s philosophy of kindness, community policing, and professionalism.
Captain Burdine provided some parameters for the design and the entire class went to work on the project. After officers in the Professional Integrity Unit reviewed all of the designs by the students, a selection was made.
Captain Burdine and Sgt. Lifsey visited the school again to reveal the sweatshirt and name the winners: Strati Young (back of the sweatshirt) and Lorren Bonney (front of the sweatshirt).
“We’d like to thank Ms. Brooks and all the students of the Rossview High School Academy of Media Arts and Technology Class for their hard work and amazing, innovative designs,” CPD spokesman Jim Knoll said.
