Imagine Prep Student Commentates Live During Wnba Game

June 5, 2010 - PRLog -- Surprise, Arizona—Recently, Imagine Prep freshman, Couree Berry had the opportunity commentate for the Phoenix Mercury exhibition game against Team China.
During the game Berry was responsible for providing color commentary or assisting the play by play announcer by filling time when a play is not in progress. Berry spent the week before preparing for the gig by studying the players biographies and articles written about the 2009 WNBA Champions. Learning about Team China was a little more difficult, partly because of the language barrier, but Berry did the best she could as she broadcasted live internationally online on the Kidstar Radio Network.
“It was fun,” said Berry. “But difficult sometimes because it was my first time doing anything like that, but I would definitely do it again.”
Lacee Collins, the media teacher at Imagine Prep, explained when Perry Damone, Kidstar Radio Network cofounder offered the chance for one of the students, Berry was the first to come to mind as one of the members of the Lady Storm basketball team and a fan of the WNBA.
“Throughout the school year, I explained to the students that there will be opportunities to apply classroom lessons to the real world…Couree’s experience is simply one example of the wonderful opportunities our students were able to partake in this year,” said Collins.
“It was cool, it was a really good experience,” said Berry. “And it helped that I took Media at Imagine Prep I wasn’t nervous because I kind of knew what to expect.”
Imagine Prep will be offering a weeklong summer camp, open to students entering 6th through 12th grades.  During the camp students can expect to learn how to operate Imagine Prep KPRP equipment, produce, and a host a radio show.  Every participant will have plenty of on-air time. For more information, contact Imagine Prep at Surprise.
Imagine Prep’s broadcast goes over the online airways 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on Kidstar Radio Network, tune into Imagine Prep’s station, KPRP the Storm to hear Couree Berry and other students show off their radio disc jockey skills. KPRP can accessed via the link found at www.surpriseprep.com.
Imagine Prep at Surprise, located at 14850 N. 156th Ave in Surprise, is a free charter school serving grades 7-12. For more information about Imagine Prep, please see http://www.surpriseprep.com.

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Imagine Prep at Surprise is a college prep school in Surprise, Arizona educating students in grades 7-12. Imagine Prep offers prepares students for college, career, and life through project based and real world learning opportunities.