Behind a long wooden desk, two students sit patiently waiting. At the far right side, a glass window reveals the director counting down. The duo turns to the teleprompter and begins what will be the next day’s RNN.

Every day during Advocate students watch RNN to get an update on what’s happening around the school.

“It’s fun to be in broadcast. It doesn’t really feel like a class, more like a club because of how laid back it is,” senior Kyle Pace said. “I want to be a cinematographer in the future and RNN is really good practice for it.”

Junior Arnel Monroy Tejeda was one the directors this year after joining the staff as a sophomore.

“It wasn’t originally my plan to be a part of RNN,” junior Arnel Monroy Tejeda said. “I was in Audio Video my freshman year, and I started seeing all the cool stuff they did, and I was like I want to be a part of that.”

While Monroy Tejeda stayed behind the scenes, working in the control booth, senior Stephen Piper preferred to be in front of the camera. Piper worked on several packages during the year, including one on Glenn High School, and often anchored for the daily show.

“I think anchoring is kind of the easiest job, but it can also be difficult because, you’re showing yourself to the whole school and not behind the scene,” Piper said. “There are some aspects that are easy, but others aspect that are hard.”

Anchors wrote their own scripts and filmed RNN the day before, with staffers on B days filming for A days, and vice versa. Producers took filmed footage, trimmed it and arranged it into a feature package.

In addition to filming packages on campus, RNN staffers also covered some events outside of school. Senior Christyna Reeves was often on the sidelines at varsity football games for sports packages.

“Filming football allowed me to use the different kind of angles I know,” Reeves said. “It was fun being on the sidelines and seeing how the game would go. I loved being able to help create something that can be very successful.”

In addition to working in class, staffers came in after other Wednesday after school to work on packages and features stories.

“I honestly didn’t even know what I was getting myself into my freshman year,” senior Cameron Holland said. “I just joined the class and they just threw stuff at me, and I just went with.”

Holland learned more than how to use editing software and how to film events.

“You get a lot out of it, “Holland said. “You meet a whole a lot people, and I have a lot more friends than I probably wouldn’t have if I wasn’t apart or RNN. Plus, this what want to with my life, so it gives me experience.”