Eagle Eye TV is the school’s newest club, but it soon may be a class. Kallista Cory, a former FOX 17 News photojournalist, was hired this past August in order to create a broadcast and livestreaming class. To drum up interest and introduce the basic curriculum, it started as a club. The club was responsible for livestreaming and recording the homecoming assembly this past September. Eagle Eye TV is also gaining more traction via their collaboration with WOOD TV 8 to produce a news story about the school’s food pantry and connection to Hand2Hand. “I’m so proud of my E.E TV kids,” said Cory. The club is intended to be an extension of Eagle Eye News and less than two weeks after it’s inaugural meeting, EETV was working on the WOODTV8 story. “[They’re] putting in the extra effort this week to come in and stay after school,” said Cory. The students have been working hard with the limited resources they have, including equipment.

The students are using equipment leftover from the old WCET-TV station. The makeshift newsroom is in room 193, with the studio next door being shared with the telecommunications class. With a few purchased exceptions and borrowed gear, some of the equipment is over twenty years old.

While all are invited to join the club, it has grown advanced enough that any new members would need to play catchup. However, Cory emphasized that they would be restarting in second trimester for anyone wanting to start from the beginning. The plan is to transition into a genuine class by third trimester. This class is meant to center more around livestreaming and field work as opposed to its early morning counterpart. Since the class is meant to replicate a real news station, students can plan to divide their time between the classroom and outside news work. Students learn about live production, graphic making for Daktronics boards (found at the field house and football stadium), safety, terminology, Daktronics software, sponsorships, scripts, graphics, scoring, game day execution, and post production. DJ Shaffer, a member of the club, says that he loves the both the hands on camera work they do and the creative freedom they are allowed. So far, the reception of the new club has been positive and members are eagerly anticipating its transformation into a class.