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Frank H. Tyro Bio Experience 32 years Professor/Manager/Chief Engineer Salish Kootenai College Media Center and KSKC Public TV. Professor- Teaching television, photography, mass communications, lighting and Images of Indians courses at Salish Kootenai College. Built/raised over $1,000,000 for Class A television station at Salish Kootenai College and raised over $350,000 and built/maintained 100,000 watt commercial FM radio station. 53 years in broadcast media with FCC First Class/ General Class Radiotelephone licenses, Ship Radar Endorsement and FAA Part 107 Commercial Remote Pilot (drone) license. Awards TV production awards include Best Professional Short, International Cultural Film Symposium, Platinum Best of Show Cultural Documentary, Aurora Awards, Telly and Videography Awards of Excellence, Finalist at International Wildlife Film Festival and screenings at the American Indian Film Institute Festival, Native Voice Festival and Flathead Lake International Cinemafest (co- founder). Audience Choice Award at the Bigfork Independent Film Festival for Walking Bear Comes Home. Education B.S. in TV Production from MSU, Bozeman, M.A. from Temple University, Philadelphia in Mass Communications, Post Grad certification from University of British Columbia and PhD from the Union Institute and University, Cincinnati in e-learning. Current Caribou Crossing, a media production and consulting partnership with Dr. Lori Lambert. Board of Directors member of the National Television Association. Board President Great Bear Foundation and recurrent visitor to Churchill, Manitoba with the Great Bear Foundation Arctic Ecology field courses as a volunteer, leader and co-leader of courses beginning since 1984. Selected short list of documentaries/projects Walking Bear Comes Home: The life and work of Chuck Jonkel, Mending the Hoop, Changing Visions, Braids of Truth, Crossing Boundaries, The Doodlebug Story. 17 minute video for the celebration of the acquisition of the former Kerr Dam by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and directed a live 2 hour broadcast/streaming of the ceremony.