Syllabus
Our partnership between the Alliance for Community Media and the Jersey Access Group will allow us to reach out to the educational community to allow students to fully experience our media conference. Students from area high schools, vocational schools, colleges and universities, who are interested in the media field, will be afforded the opportunity to participate in a day-long program that will include time to visit with the exhibitors on our trade show floor.
This is an opportunity to have teachers and students interact, exchange ideas, share their work and various experiences with other high school students, as well as college and university students. The program will include the opportunity to learn about the potential employment realities and pathways into the Television Broadcast, PEG Access, Educational Broadcast and telecommunications fields.
While visiting the Trade Show floor, educators and students will have the opportunity to meet with over 70 vendors representing the very latest in cutting-edge media technology. Students will be able to ask questions, learn about, interact, handle and operate the newest technology. All this while the participants are increasing their exposure to video production and creating awareness of the complexities of managing a television production facility.
The Importance of Community Television
This workshop will give students a glimpse into the world of community television. It will discuss what public, government and education (PEG) television is about, skills that can be learned and where it could lead for future career opportunities, and utilizing some of the technology used in the trade.
Students will first obtain an understanding of public, government and education television. Why it is important to the community it serves, what it creates and achieves.
Secondly, students will learn some valuable insights into this field from SNY-TV personality Chris Carlin, co-host of “Loud Mouths” and the sports trivia show “Beer Money”, and the voice of the Rutgers basketball and Men’s football.
Mr. Carlin will enlighten the audience with his story on the choices, the training, and the coincidence that led to his career path. Students will discover the controlled chaos that goes on behind the scenes in sports television, including the preparations for, and timeline of, a live sporting event. Mr. Carlin will also explain to the students what they should be doing now, in order to prepare themselves for a future in this field.
Students will also be treated with a second guest speaker. ESPN Studio Production Assistant Josh Vorensky will discuss the many opportunities that lead him to a career in television, including his start as a high school student volunteer at Metuchen Television.
Lastly, each student will have the opportunity to make contacts with leaders in the community television field as they visit our trade show floor. Television equipment will be on display to see, to test, and to learn on. And students who bring along their video gear will be able to conduct reports from the floor to be used at their individual schools.
The Student Symposium is provided free of charge, as a part of the Power of Partners community media outreach program.
Students should bring their own lunch. Beverages will be provided.
Power of Partners — May 2nd – 4th at the Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, New Jersey