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Every 15 Minutes – Sun Prairie High School

 The video entitled Every 15 Minutes – Sun Prairie High School premiered on KSUN-12. For future viewing times look at our schedule.  This video takes a look at how drinking and driving can affect a community.    

 Eight members of KIDS-4, a local cable access channel, had the opportunity to videotape a high school assembly that informed the student body about the effects of drinking and driving.  The assembly entitled Every 15 Minutes stems from an old statistic that in this country, every fifteen minutes someone dies from an alcohol related crash. 

 The camera crew captured several aspects of the program.  They began the first day by filming a grim reaper who visited several classrooms.  Every fifteen minutes he would remove one student from a class and they represented the number of people who are killed each day by an alcohol related crash.  At ten o’clock in the morning the entire school assembled outside to witness a mock crash scene that involved a drunk driver and two passengers who received aide from several emergency personnel.  The camera crew was able to get a close look as the local EMS attended a victim who was thrown from the crashed vehicle.  At the same time local police officials questioned the driver of the automobile, and the fire department attempted to remove a trapped passenger from the vehicle.  The camera crew followed the drunk driver who was transferred to a holding facility and a victim who was transported to a local medical clinic.  To end this portion of the assembly, the second victim who died at the scene was put into a body bag and taken away in a hearse.  When classes resumed the grim reaper continued to remove students from their classrooms.  At the end of the school day participating students gathered to reflect on the days events.  As a group they discussed several issues including drinking and driving.  The KIDS-4 camera crew filmed again the following day when the student body assembled and several members of the community shared statistics, stories and personal tragedies that occurred as a result of irresponsible drinking.    

 The KIDS-4 crew collected the footage from the two days and two members of the crew sorted through the video clips and organized it into an informative video specific to the Sun Prairie experience entitled Every 15 Minutes – Sun Prairie High School.  The two crewmembers David Knauf and Chris Kintner, both Sun Prairie high school students, incorporated several different aspects into the video.  A narrator accompanies the video footage that explains what took place during the two days.  Along with the video clips from the school the montage also includes personal reactions from students, faculty and parents who participated in the events.

 To see how the events unfolded be sure to catch Every 15 Minutes – Sun Prairie High School on KSUN-12.  Please see our schedule for future airing dates.

 For more information please contact Sun Prairie Cable Access.