The Antwerp school broadcasting team is pictured here: Broadcast teacher Kayla Bagley (holding the check); standing from left: Aaron O’Donnell, Brian Geyer, Joel Steiner, Taylor Provines, Brittany Smith, and Callie Perry; seated from left: Josh Ehlinger, Matt Dooley, and Jarrison Steiner.
The broadcast program at Antwerp High School has received a grant from Operation Round Up through the Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative Trust. With money from the grant, broadcast students will visit North Canton’s Hoover High School Video Productions and Broadcast Journalism classes this fall. Hoover’s student-run NCCS TV-11 is a fully-operational television station that provides educational programming on Time Warner Cable, AT&T U-verse, and the Internet. Antwerp students will visit TV-11’s production facility and watch students in action as they produce news broadcasts, public affairs programs, and live production.
This field trip will help advance Antwerp’s broadcast program, which provides live morning announcements and feature stories over the television for the entire school district. Over the next few months, these announcements will also be available online through High School Cube, a streaming service, as well as on the radio on 102.7 WMYW, Paulding County’s only licensed, locally owned non-commercial radio station.
Through membership generosity, the Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative Trust is able to grant approximately $12,000 each quarter. A volunteer board, consisting of co-op members representing different areas of the service territory, meets quarterly to discuss the applications and to decide how the money will be divided.
