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MU at Sony NAB Show

Lifetime Opportunity for two Millersville students.

John Coleman and Joey Bertoni

In March, two Millersville University students were invited to attend the annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show, the largest entertainment and multimedia expo in the world, as a part of the “Sony Experience.”  John Coleman and Joey Bertoni not only attended the conference held April 13-16, they helped showcase the latest and greatest technology that Sony has to offer.

Last year, Coleman and Jacob Pironi ’14, were the first Millersville students to be invited by Sony Electronics Inc.  to attend the NAB show in Las Vegas. They called it “the opportunity of a lifetime.”

This is the second consecutive year that Sony has invited students from Millersville to invite two students to attend the enormous event that annually attracts over 26,000 attendees and nearly 100,000 media and entertainment professionals. After upgrading the University’s TV studio equipment through Sony, the company reached out to invite two more students back to the conference this year.

Coleman, a senior and Bertoni, a junior were nominated to go to the NAB Show by the faculty in the communications department at Millersville.

“It means a great deal that my colleagues think so highly of me,” said Bertoni, who plans to move to Lancaster or Philadelphia after graduation and work in live news production.

“It is a great honor to be chosen to go on the Sony NAB trip,” said Coleman, who wants to work in broadcast engineering after he graduates in May. “It’s awesome to represent the University in a positive light. Millersville is definitely one of the smaller schools at the event, so it’s great to be represented.”

“I took away from the conference a greater understanding of the broadcast technology, and the hardware behind the television operation,” said Coleman, who worked in the Live Production Solutions booth at the show. “In addition, it was great to meet other students and professionals that all share the same interests.”

“It was also cool to meet the other students in the same boat as us and we bonded instantly,” said Bertoni, who worked with the Media Workflow Automation & Managed Services booths. “It was overall an incredible experience.”

The NAB show has established itself as the premiere marketplace for hands-on digital media and entertainment showcases. This year’s show included representatives from Warner Bros, Samsung, CNN, Major League Baseball and Dolby, among many more.

 

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