Lights, Camera ... Graduation

If it's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a video chronicling a milestone journey worth?

With any luck, the class of 2012 will be able to ponder that as the district works to have equipment in place for a broadcast of graduation.

The school board, at a recent meeting, approved awarding a $32,234 bid to TEL-DAT Communications to carry out phase two of a wiring project at Hatters Stadium. The latest portion of the project follows a roughly $42,000 pre-wiring first phase that the . The project began soon after the long-awaited nearly $1 million artificial turf field was installed last year. 

Officials said it would take two to three weeks for materials to be received upon ordering. Once in hand, the project is expected to take two to four days, according to a school board packet made available to Patch. 

TEL-DAT Communications' wiring includes the following:

• Two video, four audio cables to right end zone
• Two video, four audio cables to left 15 yard line
• Two video, four audio cables to right 40 yard line
• Connection of the rear panel to fiber (necessary for live TV coverage)
• Connection of the fiber to the high school studio (necessary for live TV coverage)
• Power video amplifiers to pull box under stadium

Superintendent Curtis Griffin told Patch previously that he hopes to give out-of-town family and friends the chance to see the class of 2012 graduate in June. 

"I want to broadcast graduation, not only on the TV, but on the Internet," Griffin had said last year.