School technology coordinator Lynn Williams allows only the best students to fill 15 positions including producer, director, camera operators and graphic designers. Sometimes it's a little later if not everyone makes it out of class on time. Students use audio-video digital mixers, sound boards, video cameras and various presentation and editing software to pull it together. The broadcast includes school announcements, as well as the weather, world news, a silent meditation and the Pledge of Allegiance. It's set up like a job.
Kids apply, submit references and do the job interview.
Staffers can have no more than two C's on their report card, and no C averages. That experience helps them become better people, no matter who they are. Of course there are glitches, almost daily. Most can be pretty humorous. Sometimes the sound doesn't come on.