Kids Congress 2010

The leaves were red and brown and it was chilly and rainy but that didn't stop us getting The POD out and about in May for a massive two-day ICT conference called Kid's Congress on the 27th and 28th May held at Addington Raceway Events Centre.

Kids Congress was celebrating its tenth birthday. Waimairi and Windsor Schools, along with CORE Education, teamed up again for this exciting event and Plains FM staffies Nicki and Edward provided a breakout session for budding broadcasters called RADIO RAVES.

We worked with 9 students from a mix of schools - Longbeach, Ashley, Oaklands, Ashgrove, Banks Avenue and even Alexandra Primary.

The kids learnt about presentation and voice work, scripting, interviewing, doing vox pops,  and even some digital editing. They broke into 3 groups of 3 and each created a programme for broadcast. They were based on music, sport and Kids Congress itself. They then did some editing on their work and we polished and tweaked the rest back at Plains FM. 

Check out the podcasts here!

Sport - http://plainsfm.org.nz/on-demand/radioraves-sport/
Music - http://plainsfm.org.nz/on-demand/radioraves-music/
Kids Congress - http://plainsfm.org.nz/on-demand/radioraves-kidscongress/

Kids Congress is all about kids, for kids and organised by kids. The theme that Waimairi and Windsor School  created was ‘Take A Break ‘N’ Celebrate.’ The theme was based around fun and celebration. You can visit the Kids Congress website http://www.core-ed.net/kidscongress/ for more information and see if you'd like to be involved in next year's event.

We'll see you around. Just look out for the big red headphones and our staffies friendly smiling faces!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4lvm0kfsV0

Zone
Talk Zone
Language
English