Melissa McClinton, who has spent the summer in school at Dartmouth College, will be working in Boston this fall. A Communications and Business major, she hopes to go on to Northeastern University Business School after finishing college, then film school, in order to become a T.V. producer and director. Initially she got involved with the contest, because "I was helping a friend whose partner backed out." However, she really values having had the opportunity to learn "how to work with computer animation and web pages . . . I never learned about computers until then. Her overall impressions of the experience of participating in the contest was "excellent . . . I learned a great deal from the projects of other people [as well]. . . The winning projects were excellent and well put-together."