LPB show to profile Carencro program
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LAFAYETTE — Students involved in Carencro High’s Academy of Information Technology will be featured in an upcoming edition of “Louisiana Public Square,” a monthly public forum produced by Louisiana Public Broadcasting.
LPB visited the academy this week to interview students and teachers about the academy program, said Kit Becnel, academy director.
It offers students hands-on experience and internships with businesses in the community.
The academy has joined with LPB, Lafayette Utilities System, the LITE Center and the school district’s information technology department for a project called Fiber Kids.
The project encourages students in the academy to explore the uses of fiber technology in the classroom.
“We’re really excited to be highlighted as part of this technology segment,” Becnel said. “We’re grooming our students for a work force to stay here locally in Lafayette.”
The academy is hooked into the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative, a fiber-optic network that connects research institutions across the state to a national network, the National LambdaRail.
There’s a movement to make similar connections with other kindergarten through 12th-grade schools in the state, according to Randy Ward, director of engineering at LPB.
“The wonder of that would be that the schools could communicate with one another without having to go through the Internet,” Ward said.
The LPB show will focus on technology and explore the status of technology in the state.
It was taped at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise Center for a 7 p.m. Nov. 25 broadcast on LPB and participating public radio stations. The show airs locally on LPB and radio station KRVS FM-88.7.
According to the Public Square Web site, other confirmed guests for the technology segment include University of Louisiana at Lafayette economics Professor Anthony Greco; Curt Eysink, executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission; Jacqueline Beauchamp, chief executive officer and co-founder of Nergyzed Entertainment; and Joaquin Alvarado, senior vice president for diversity and innovation for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Students will take part in the panel discussion from the classroom via the academy’s fiber optic link to the LITE Center, Becnel said.
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