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TOLEDO, OH (WTOL) - The media production students at Central Catholic High School have brand new studios that are equipped with web-streaming technology.
The student broadcasts are reaching well beyond the boundaries a normal school production.
Nearly 400 viewers from 26 states and abroad tuned into the Irish News Network to watch the football game against St. Francis De-Sales.
Friday night, you can catch them play St. Johns starting at 7:30 pm in a high quality broadcast produced solely by students.
It also houses a plush recording studio. You'd think you'd have to be in New York or Detroit to find facilities this nice, but it's in what used to be the computer lab at Central Catholic High.
The media technology students work on projects in the brand new media production facility using professional grade equipment, run on Mac software.
Kyle Lewandowski uses it to produce commercials.
"We took the video, and we made our own music to it. So they all got sent out on a USB drive to the 8th graders, and they to listen to what we made," explains Lewandowski.
On the other side of the wall, student news anchors bask in the warmth of studio lights as the days events are broadcast over the world wide web.
"It comes from one laptop, and it sends it to company in California, which then takes it and sends it to any person who wants to watch it," says Brian Hanley, a director.
Marie Arter, the Director of Curriculum, says these students are not only flexing their creative muscles, they're producing possibilities for the future.
"That future may change from just being people who watch media, but people who create content," says Arter.
Shari Brown-Carpenter, who used the studio to record a song, sums up the studio's students' attitude with the lyric, "So all you haters fall back, 'cause you're not stopping me."
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