Betsy Hanson is the assistant director of a puppet troupe. A puppet troupe that gets to travel around to various schools and youth organizations around her local area. They use puppets to teach and instruct, and to help the kids have a positive learning experience. And they’ve found a way to involve the audience in ways that they hadn’t previously been able to do.

Betsy and her troupe have set up the XCam2 just behind the "Puppet Stage" so that it looks out over the audience. Then they’ve set up a monitor so that the puppeteers can "see" their audience and know who they’re playing to. "Try to imagine the look of surprise when a puppet suddenly looks straight at one of the kids" Betsy told us. "It’s even more fun when the puppet says ’hey you, in the blue shirt! Just what do you think is so funny?’ "

What a laugh that must be. The faces on the children are priceless, and they connect with the puppets in a whole new way. Suddenly the puppets go from being funny figures on stage to personal friends that the children believe know them personally. "The kids really respond to this kind of puppetry," Betsy says. "And they trust the puppets all the more, and they’re willing to listen and take us to heart."

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