By: Maggie Bass
Carlyle High School students Maggie Bass, Abby Steinkamp, Kamille Salyers, Katie
Rakers, Landry Steinkamp, Addy Gansauer, Meghan Edwards, Brooke Kleiboeker, Kyleigh
Tegenkamp, Mary Ann Brown, and Alannah Sarclette traveled to Southern Illinois University in
Edwardsville to tour the college’s broadcast studios on March 18.
The event was arranged by broadcast engineer Theresa Pauli and SIUE graduate student
Chloe Wolfe.
At the start of the visit, Dr. Musonda Kapatamoyo, Cory Byers, and Ben Moyer met the
students in the studio.
Here, they taught students how to use state-of-the-art cameras and teleprompters in the
production studio.
“It was a cool experience because I didn’t know how to focus the camera since I was
using technology I had never seen before,” Gansauer said.
They were also shown how to operate the lighting and sound system in the control room
and how to properly use a green screen.
In addition to visiting the broadcast studio, the journalism students visited the college’s
newspaper, The Atlestle.
While in the newsroom, students spoke with graphics manager and podcast producer Sam
Muren and lifestyles editor Chloe Wolfe.
“I learned that their newspaper is not that different from our set-up, and that they focus
on the same things we do,” Sarclette said.