PIONEER PBS | GRANITE FALLS, MN Pioneer PBS Studio serves as a vibrant classroom
In FY 21-22, Pioneer PBS hosted several tours for students enrolled in Southwestern Minnesota elementary schools, high schools, community colleges and state universities. We also hosted visiting students from the Hawk Creek Home School and lifelong learners like the members of the Marshall PEO organization and the Granite Falls Lady Slipper Garden Club. Our studio has earned a reputation for being an educational destination. Students and teachers are choosing Pioneer PBS for field trips in large part by the region-wide recognition the station has earned through its award-winning Legacy-funded programs. We help review work being produced by students at Yellow Medicine East in their video art classroom projects.
Pioneer PBS employed three Yellow Medicine East High School students part time as engineering assistants. While two have graduated and gone off to college, they remain on the list for work during holiday breaks and when they return home for the summer. We feel that providing these real-world technical opportunities to rural youth is our best chance at retaining critical talent for our communities into the future. We plan on offering additional youth these opportunities in the coming year.
We will also be making some programs completed in this fiscal year available in PBS Learning Media in the coming year. While finished in production in this reporting year, programs like Saksanica have an ongoing impact thanks to lesson plans that show students how to “appreciate” versus “appropriate” native culture.
“I wrote lesson plans for students to learn from several of the Postcards features & shared them with area art teachers.”
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