Let’s Celebrate Our Teachers!

Since 2005, WNET 13 and WLIW21 have been hosting an educational conference to celebrate and motive over 10,000 teachers from all across the country. This year’s event was held at the Hilton New York in Midtown Manhattan and surpassed all previous years in content and quality.  The Featured Speakers for the event included: Lisa Henson, Secretaries Arne Duncan and Richard Riley, Queen Noor, Meet the Press’ David Gregory, and Queen Latifah. Also featured was a special performance for the standing room only crowd of 2200 by 10 time Grammy Award Winner, Bobby McFerrin.

For the 5th year as well, Corporate AV has been a crucial partner to the event. Corporate AV handled all of the audiovisual needs for the General Session, Featured Speaker Areas, Classroom sessions, and exhibitor trade show. There were a total of 25 concurrent sessions each day, all with their own individual needs, and the appropriate technical staff to support them.

In the General Session, Corporate AV handled all audio, video, camera, and technical production. For the sound system, a dv-Dosc line array was the primary reinforcement system and a Yamaha PM5D digital console was chosen to handle all of the mixing needs for the event. Eighteen channels of Shure UR wireless microphones were used for the panelists, various presenters, and performances.

On the video side, Corporate AV used (4) Sony D-50 camera packages for acquistion and recording, and a combination of DVD, Beta SP, PC and MAC graphics for playback. On the video processing, all material went thru (2) Barco Screen Pro Seamless Switchers and (4) Christie 16K DLP projectors, which then went on (2) 12×16 Truss Screens flown left and right of stage.  

The event was a huge success and showed once again how having the right team in place to handle the audiovisual is a key element to a smooth event!