Plum Senior High School Gets Tech Boost from Daktronics and More

Daktronics was asked by the We’re All Mustangs Here foundation, including Pat McAfee, sports analyst and former professional football player, to design, manufacture and install new LED video displays for Plum Senior High School, McAfee’s alma mater, in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, area. The project was completed this past month and the displays were unveiled over the weekend.

The project features an outdoor video display at the football stadium, an indoor video display in the gymnasium, fixed-digit scoreboards at each venue, digital content for the displays, a Daktronics FrameWrx subscription for creating additional content and DakClassroom curriculum for student instruction in operating the displays for live events.

“This project shows that giving back can go further than you imagine,” says Kyle Sydow, Daktronics high schools market manager. “It’s not just about the student-athletes competing. Now there’s a whole new group of students getting a chance to showcase their skills on game day.”

More Than Video Technology

This project is about more than the physical LED display and scoreboard equipment – it’s about the students learning in the classroom and seeing their creations come to life on game day. To deliver this experience, Daktronics is providing a FrameWrx subscription and DakClassroom curriculum.

DakClassroom empowers teachers to provide students with the skills, experience and confidence to succeed in live game-day production during their high school careers and beyond. It is a CTE-aligned curriculum for students to learn technical terminology and to understand Daktronics LED equipment and control systems.

FrameWrx by Daktronics is a content design platform that enables students to leverage and customize professionally-designed templates to fit their school’s brand and elevate the game-day experience.

“This is about more than installing a new display for Plum Senior High School to use, it’s about giving their students the tools to learn and gain real-world experiences in the production space,” adds Sydow. “They can create graphics, play them back on the displays, learn how to operate video cameras and equipment – everything that goes into a game day or broadcast production is at their fingertips!”