Many stu­dents from RCHS had the op­por­tu­nity to job shadow. Ar­ron Smith, Megan Miller, and Stephanie Le­v­en­good were all able to job shadow at News Chan­nel 9 in Chattanooga.

Ar­ron Smith, a se­nior at RCHS, was able to job shadow Al­li­son Chin­char, a me­te­o­rol­o­gist for the news sta­tion. “Just ex­pe­ri­enc­ing and look­ing at the in­for­ma­tion and see­ing how much they en­joy their job, makes me want to seek this pro­fes­sion even more,” said Ar­ron.

Through­out the day, Ar­ron got to see how the news­room works. First, he met the peo­ple and toured the en­tire news­room. Af­ter that, he was able to see how the sta­tion makes news­casts and work the doppler radar. Ar­ron was also al­lowed to help make graph­ics and the seven day fore­cast and was al­lowed thirty min­utes on the spot – the spot is the screen.

“I had a blast and I was able to make a few con­nec­tions,” Ar­ron said, “I also learned more re­sources for fu­ture weather ref­er­ences,” he added.

Megan Miller, a ju­nior at RCHS, job shad­owed Kim Chap­man. Megan was able to write an ar­ti­cle for the ra­dio sta­tion that Chap­man works for. She also had the op­por­tu­nity to see the con­trol room of News Chan­nel 9 and sit in on a pro­duc­tion meeting.

Chap­man and Megan also recorded an in­ter­view. In the in­ter­view Chap­man and Megan asked each other ques­tions and talked about a lot in Rhea County and the world. “It was nerve-​​racking,” said Megan. Clips of the in­ter­view were aired on the eleven o’clock news.

“Broad­cast­ing wasn’t on my list of jobs, but af­ter my ex­pe­ri­ence it is def­i­nitely some­thing I will con­sider,” Megan said, “I would have never thought that I would have wanted to be on the news.”

Stephanie Le­v­en­good, a ju­nior at RCHS, fol­lowed Kim Fields. She was able to meet the pro­duc­ers and di­rec­tors of the news sta­tion. Stephanie also wrote two sto­ries for the five thirty news. The first story was about Phil Bre­deson ac­cept­ing the stim­u­lus packet and the sec­ond one was about Obama and the new bud­get. “My fa­vorite part was writ­ing sto­ries and watch­ing them on the news,” she said.