<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/2023-photography-grad-focuses-on-freelancing.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>05/25/2023 04:24:52 PM</pubDate><title>2023 photography grad focuses on freelancing</title><subtitle>BC3 @ Cranberry staff recommendations helped 20-year-old in career program "come by shoots"</subtitle><description>(Cranberry Township, PA) A Canonsburg resident who experimented with a camera as a hobby during her teenage years enrolled in BC3 @ Cranberry’s associate degree career program in photography, relied on her academic training this spring when preparing for her first two freelance assignments and graduated with honors during Butler County Community College’s 55th commencement May 17.</description><author/><image-caption>Grace Barnett, third from left, a 20-year-old Canonsburg resident, is shown with her family Wednesday, May 17, 2023, during Butler County Community College’s 55th commencement. Barnett earned an associate degree in a 65-credit photography career program offered by BC3 only at its additional location of BC3 @ Cranberry in Cranberry Township and is shown with, from left, her mother, Kari, her brother Isaiah and her father, Bill. Barnett was among the 75 percent of students in the college’s Class of 2023 who graduated debt-free.</image-caption><tags><tag>BC3 @ Cranberry</tag><tag>Student Success</tag><tag>Year in Review 2023</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2023/bc3-barnett-grace-a.jpeg" alt="This is a photo of a graduating student and her family."/></image></item>