Offered as a course, X-Factor Broadcasting provides students with the skills and knowledge to be informed consumers of media in a technological society. Our main responsibility is to produce the daily announcements (the X-Factor), cover school events, and learn the purpose and skills of journalism. The course provides the opportunity for students to learn basic journalistic and technological skills used in a career of radio, digital, and television production.

Students will research, gather, and analyze information to create audio & video productions for broadcast to a variety of audiences. In this course, students will work with sensitive equipment, so they must be responsible and trustworthy. In addition, students must be self-motivated, dependable, and able to work well as a team. Student tasks include script writing, video recording, and video editing.

They will also assist the St. Pius X community and staff on video projects, as needed. Students will gain an understanding of preproduction, on-air, and post-production roles and responsibilities of news broadcasting. Outside work is expected.

The TIARA is the student-produced yearbook of St. Pius X High School. This is an extracurricular activity that freshmen through seniors are eligible to join. The editor is a junior or senior who has shown a great degree of dedication to the staff for at least one year. Yearbook meets after school two to three nights per week. Duties consist of taking photos, writing captions, designing page layouts, etc.

A team of SPX students and adult leaders from the Kansas City area who travel to the San Andrés Itzapa region of Guatemala to perform mission work and serve local communities.

To learn more about Mission Guatemala, click here.