Episodes

Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
117 - Kicking Off the 2021 Football Season with Will and Kyle
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Wednesday Sep 29, 2021
Football is well underway in the 2021 season! To hear about it from a Daktronics perspective, Justin and Matt are joined by Will Ellerbruch, Daktronics national sales manager, and Kyle Sydow, Daktronics HSPR market manager. They talk about football season, new installations that can be experienced this year, trends they’re seeing in the marketplace and more.
- Football News Releases: https://www.daktronics.com/news?k=football

Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
110 - Live Streaming Your Events with Eric Edens
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Expectations continue to rise for the streaming of live events. To find out how to get started and elevate your streaming game, Justin and Matt talk with Eric Edens, applications engineer for Daktronics. He covers how live streaming has evolved, the many levels and options for streaming that Daktronics offers, and his personal experiences working with people to live stream their events.

Friday May 07, 2021
103 - Digital Trends in High Schools
Friday May 07, 2021
Friday May 07, 2021
As technology advances and more video displays are used to communicate, we take a look at how these advancements are affecting today’s high schools. To share their expertise and insight, Justin and Matt are joined by Kyle Sydow, Daktronics High School Market Manager, Lisa Silveira, Daktronics Product Marketing for Digital Signage and On-Premise, and Jody Huntimer, Daktronics High School Strategic Marketing Manager. In this conversation, we cover digital trends at high schools for sports facilities but also other opportunities to communicate via digital signage inside and outside the school.
- Digital Trends Video: https://daktronics.widen.net/s/tzgpkmxwbs/daktronics-school-of-the-future

Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
102 - Student Production at Papillion La Vista High School
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Wednesday Apr 14, 2021
Event production skills learned in high school can help students at the next level. To hear an example of this, Justin and Matt spoke with Becky Hoch, Media Academy Director at Papillion La Vista High School, and Aidan Cho, former Papillion student and current student at the University of South Dakota. They share details of their video board production and implementation, the manual Aidan created and much more.
- Papillion La Vista High School Project Photo: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/photos/details?pn=WP-21141&cid=PLSBNE-005
- Daktronics Crew Connect: https://daktronics.widen.net/s/r83b7wthta/cutsheet_crew-connect_hs

Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
87 - Waunakee High School with Jason McConnell
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
What do you need to know so you can effectively operate your video board? To hear about the event production curriculum being used at Waunakee High School, Justin and Matt talk with their video content creator Jason McConnell. He shares how the school has implemented the curriculum for virtual learning and how he’s teaching his students all the details of producing live events with a video board.
- Event production curriculum webpage: https://www.daktronics.com/en-us/markets/sports/high-schools/game-day-production-program

Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
85 - Big Stream at Lincoln High School with Joey Struwe
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
As Daktronics Big Stream option starts to catch on, Justin and Matt visited with Joey Struwe, Activities Director at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to hear about his experience with the streaming feature. Joey also shares his role with the school, the features of the product that they enjoy and much more.
- Daktronics Big Stream Webpage: www.daktronics.com/bigstream

Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
82 - Learning about the NIAAA with Phil Rison
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
To learn more about the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (NIAA), Justin and Matt are joined by Phil Rison, the Associate Executive Director of NIAAA. Phil shares the organization’s goals, details of their upcoming national conference, how they’ve adapted due to the impacts of COVID-19 and much more.
- NIAAA Webpage: https://members.niaaa.org/
- NIAAA Conference Webpage: https://www.adconference.org/
- NIAAA Professional Development Webpage: https://www.adconference.org/professional-development
- NIAAA Registration Webpage: https://www.adconference.org/register

Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
79 - Selling Sponsorships at River Falls High School with Sara Kealy
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Wednesday Sep 23, 2020
Justin and Matt recently spoke with Sara Kealy, River Falls High School’s head volleyball coach, to find out what it was like to sell sponsorships for their new video board this summer. She shares her experience in reaching out to local businesses, her team’s excitement for the new display’s arrival and other details of her journey to help their vision become a reality.
- Daktronics Sports Marketing website: daktronics.com/dsm

Friday Jun 26, 2020
67 - High School Video Board Curriculum with Angie and Kyle
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Our high school customers can select from a video board operation curriculum to teach their students the ins and outs of event production. Angie Wilson, Professional Services Manager, and Kyle Sydow, High School Market Manager, join Justin and Matt to share the details of this curriculum, what it’s designed to do and other details of the offering.
- Daktronics curriculum package flyer: https://p.widencdn.net/9xooff/FLYER-HSPR-Curriculum-Packages
- Daktronics curriculum webpage: www.Daktronics.com/eventproductioncurriculum

Wednesday May 06, 2020
59 - Details of Daktronics Sports Marketing with Kyle and Bud
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Daktronics provides many different products and services for its customers, including Daktronics Sports Marketing. To discuss the details of DSM, Justin and Matt are joined by Kyle Sydow, Daktronics market manager, and Bud Postma, retired athletic director and Daktronics consultant. The conversation covers how DSM works, the features and benefits of the program, examples of how it has worked for Bud, and much more.
- Daktronics Sports Marketing website: www.daktronics.com/dsm