More Highlights for Post 5

• Explorer Post 5: Initiative and Resourcefulness

  Never discount youthful initiative and resourcefulness. The Explorer Post 5 Advisor team was reminded of that during our first ever virtual season of WRAL Post 5. None of us expected this version of Post 5 to be extraordinary, we just
• Explorer Post 5 Kicks Off 49th Year with Open House, Applications Being Accepted Through Oct 25

  It might have seemed a little crowded in Café 550 on Thursday night, October 18, 2018, as WRAL-TV hosted our Open House for the 49th year of Explorer Post 5. The station kicked off the night with a short ‘behind
• Explorer Post 5 Students Cover Eagle Scout Banquet, Create Package for WRAL Newscast

  CBC and WRAL-TV are known for a long list of “firsts,” and a student group at the station has now joined that list.  Explorer Post 5 students recently achieved a milestone.  For the first time, the group covered an event
• WRAL Explorer Post 5 Wraps Successful Year

  “I’m very proud to know and work with this group of young people, and can’t wait to see the great things they’ll end up achieving in the future.” – WRAL-TV Steve Elizondo The 2016-2017 WRAL Explorer Post 5 Team recently
• WRAL POST 5 Explorers 20th anniversary

  Explorer Post 5 was established in 1969 and is associated with the Learning for Life program, a part of the Occoneechee Council of Boy Scouts of America in Raleigh. Powell Kidd, a WRAL engineer and volunteer Boy Scout leader, started Post 5 for high school age boys and girls to apply the skills learned in scouting to a possible career in broadcasting.

  Post 5 and now Post 50 are still going strong today.
  (prodoced in1989)