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Final Thoughts: PBS TechCon April 19, 2009

Overall, I took away a lot of information from this year’s TechCon, and I had a fantastic time. It seemed this year that PBS was trying especially hard to cater the conference to the attendees, providing a variety of topics for a variety of interests and structuring the sessions so that there was little overlap. I had a fantastic time networking with other stations, meeting fellow scholarship winners, and basically coming away with the feeling that we are not alone in the issues and situations we face day to day. It’s always enjoyable to be able to talk to someone who has similar interests, let alone one who performs a similar job to yours.

At the closing session, they brought up a representative from AVID, who (unbeknownst to us) presented the ten PBS Next Generation Scholarship Winners each with a copy of Avid Media Composer software, which was absolutely incredible, not to mention incredibly generous. I’m spec-ing out my current computer system now… hopefully when I receive the software, I won’t have to purchase an entirely new computer to run it.

I hope to have the chance to return to TechCon at some point in the future.