Auditorium and Stadium Projects

The Norwalk Performing Arts center and Warrior stadium are finally reaching a semblance of completion. I have been tied up in both of those buildings pretty much non-stop since August began.

Both projects are quite involved and have chewed up much of my free time. We had our first home game in the new stadium last Friday night and things were a bit off. The Newtek Tricaster device -which is resposible for mixing the live video feeds from our multiple cameras and streaming it to the video board and online -- was only showing greyscale images. It was very disappointing for all involved. We could not get the streaming URL and encoding file entered into the device at all as it was being worked on all the way up to --and including-- the varsity game. So I apologize to anyone that was looking for the stream and missed it. It wasn't there. We have another game in two weeks and I hope to have it all operational by then. We have had a couple big events in the new Performing Arts Center. One was the all staff meeting that we have every year. It normally would not be that big of a deal, but since it was the first event ever in there, things were on edge the whole time for me. Since then we also had the Iowa Teacher of The Year presentation last Thursday. Charity Campbell, our MS PE instructor won the award this year. She is very deserving and you probably saw the picture on the school homepage. See it here as well.

So that's the latest for now.