The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) is the first education venue to purchase a Stage Technologies power-flying system for use with training modules integrated into its curriculum. With an Illusionist control desk on the fly-floor and an additional 28 computers in the PC lab running Chameleon software, the RSAMD can now offer students offline training on a virtual flying system and a real system to operate in their theatre.

As well as providing RSAMD with the latest technology to teach students, the point-hoist system is a flexible and portable tool for use in home and touring productions.

More information about Stage Technologies training services can be obtained by filling in an online contact form at www.stagetech.com/contact/index.asp.

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Wybron, Inc., a veteran lighting company serving the entertainment, house of worship, and architecture industries, promoted John Sondericker III to director of technologies.

For the past 12 years, Mr. Sondericker has been Wybron's senior electronics/software engineer, helping design almost every product the company makes, and served as the chief architect of Infogate, the software at the heart of Wybron's Infotrace system.

Originally from Long Island, New York, Mr. Sondericker earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1987 from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He then returned to New York to work for the physics department of the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he designed and built particle detectors.

In his new role at Wybron, Mr. Sondericker will help the company stay abreast of new developments in the lighting industry including the continued emphasis on two-way communication protocols such as RDM and ACN (Architecture for Control Networks).

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