Career Choices Class Visits KDLT
Explore Unusual Jobs
by Denise Snyders
Freshmen students visited KDLT News Station in Sioux Falls as part of a May term class.In the Career Choices classes taught by Mrs. Devitt and Mrs. Snyders, students are required to interview someone with an unusual job. They then write a report and give a presentation to the class. In place of their presentation, they can invite the person they interviewed to speak to the class. Danielle G.'s uncle Tom Hanson came to Central Lyon to visit with one of the classes about his job as news anchor at KDLT. This led to very interesting and educational field trip to the news station.
On Wednesday, May 26, students were given a tour by promotions manager Amanda Swenson which included talks by chief meteorologist Cody Matz and news anchor Tom Hanson.
Students were given the opportunity to try out the green screen, which demands high skills to maneuver since you are required to move in reverse of the way it looks. A green screen is used by the meteorologist while he gives weather forecasts to the viewers. What we see as weathermen are actually meteorologists who spend up to four hours per day studying weather patterns and predicting the weather before they step in front of the green screen. The team at KDLT were very welcoming and provided insight to the happenings in a television station.
