DUBOIS – A group of young people interested in television production as a career, or as a passion, have produced their own television program featuring a nation-wide robotics competition that is set to take place at Penn State DuBois this weekend.
Students from The Kurrent Youth Media Club in DuBois and the Digital Media Arts program at Jeff Tech have collaborated with DuBoisTV to create a first-of-its-kind collaborative local educational television production hosted by local middle and high school media students.
The students met up with teams of youth and advisers taking part in the Penn State DuBois BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) Robotics Competition recently and the resulting interviews have been produced into a full TV show.
The event’s practice session was held Oct. 10, at the DuBois Mall, where the media students learned more about the practice session, the competition coming up Oct. 24, and the national BEST Robotics competition in general.
DuBois Middle School eighth grader Ariel Forrest, Jeff Tech Digital Media Arts freshman and Kurrent member Ashley Siple, and Jeff Tech junior Jade Steele conducted the interviews for the show, which was produced by instructor Sam Ettaro.
The half-hour long TV special will premiere at 8:30 p.m. Friday, on DuBoisTV (Comcast Cable Channel 19) and will be available online for those who are not Comcast subscribers at www.duboistv.net and www.thekurrent.org
The production is the latest in a series of community service videos provided by these youth media programs, which are offered free to youth in the DuBois region.
Both programs promote technical and business training within multiple digital media pathways. The Kurrent Youth Media Club is a free youth outreach program held every Friday night at the Kinetic, at 32 S. Brady St., across from the DuBois Library.
Students interested in joining The Kurrent can learn more at www.thekurrent.org and more information about the Digital Media Arts program and Jeff Tech in general can be found at the school’s new Web site at www.jefftech.info.
All members of the community are invited watch the BEST at Penn State DuBois competition. It is scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, in the campus gymnasium at Penn State DuBois.
Closed marketing portions of the competition take place on campus from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Friday evening, which count toward each teams overall BEST score.
More information can be found at http://dubois.psu.edu/best.
BEST at Penn State DuBois is made possible by Fairman Family Foundation, Comtec, Atlas Pressed Metals, Abbot Furnace, Miller Welding, Eastern Sintered Alloys, and Symmco and the Missile Defense Agency.