MANITOULIN—The Little Current Curling Club has donated the newly purchased camera/video equipment that students and staff of Manitoulin Secondary School (MSS) used to stream last month’s Northern Ontario provincial curling championships back to the school.
“This is a very generous donation to our school; the camera equipment cost several thousand dollars,” stated MSS teacher Chris Theijsmeijer after a presentation to the school by Joe Cooper on behalf of the Little Current Curling Club, which hosted the provincials last week.
Mr. Cooper explained, “As part of the contract to host the 2024 Northern Ontario Curling Association (NOCA) provincial curling championships, the event needed to be streamed. The host committee purchased the camera equipment and MSS agreed to stream the event on YouTube.”
“We had received a quote on a professional video team to stream the NOCA championship, but it would have cost $12,000 plus accommodations for the video crew,” said Mr. Cooper. “So, I approached the high school. We bought the video equipment and they said they would stream the event, and they did a great job.”
Mr. Theijsmeijer said “It was great to see the curling event locally and being hosted in Little Current. One requirement the curling club had in hosting the event was that they had to stream games. We do some live streaming of sports at the school like basketball and volleyball. Mr. Cooper had asked if we could stream the curling championships.”
“And now they have graciously donated all the camera equipment back to our school,” Mr. Theijsmeijer said, noting MSS students and staff had volunteered to stream the NOCA playdowns.
The equipment is valued at $6,600.
