The May 2 awards ceremony for the Blair County Commissioners 10th Annual Environmental Awareness video contest had a distinctly Tyrone feel to it.
\nThat\u2019s because five groups from the Tyrone Middle and High School earned recognition in this year\u2019s competition, including two first place winners and a sweep of the senior high division.
\nSeniors Seth Kobuck, Ian Rhoat, Mike Garbinsky and Matt Parks, students in Eric Feather\u2019s digital video class, took top honors in the senior high division for their commercial entitled \u201cRecyclable Massacre,\u201d while in the middle school division sixth graders Spencer Mazer, Tim Crabtree and Madison Stauffer earned first prize for a video called \u201cHobo Recycling Award.\u201d
\nFor their efforts, both groups received $500 and an all-expense paid trip to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. They were awarded plaques and photographed with the Blair County Commissioners at the awards ceremony held Tuesday at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg.
\n\u201cIt was only three years ago that Dr. Rebecca Erb (high school principal) first made the purchases and supplied the training for our teachers and students to be able to use digital video, and it\u2019s amazing the results we\u2019ve seen in that short period of time,\u201d said Kerry Naylor, the gifted enrichment teacher at Tyrone Middle-High School, who advised the sixth grade winners.
\nIn 2004, the first year Tyrone students used digital video technology for the contest, one group of sixth graders earned an honorable mention, while last year a sixth grade group took second place, with a senior high group taking an honorable mention.
\nThat pales in comparison to this year, when five of the six groups entered from Tyrone merited recognition.
\nIt was most dramatic in the senior division. Along with Kobuck and Stager, two more groups from Feather\u2019s DV class were place winners: Zach Yeaton, Kylie Grassmyer, Katie Glace, Cynda Ormsby and Phil Pellegrini took second place with their video \u201cRecycling Issues,\u201d and Ben Stager, Chris Bradigan and Tim Stibitz were third with \u201cMr. Bottle Recycles Right.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of all of the students for putting their creativity, knowledge and effort into a worthwhile project. It\u2019s very satisfying to see all of their talent and hard work rewarded in this way. It\u2019s a tremendous honor,\u201d said Feather.
\nIn the middle school division, sixth graders Morgan Decker, William Mills and Skyler Yanchick bolstered their classmates\u2019 victory with an honorable mention finish for their video \u201cSuperbowl Party.\u201d
\nThe contest is a program run each year through the Department of Solid Waste and Recycling. The department selects a theme, and students around Blair County develop 30-second advertising spots to promote the concept.
\nThis year\u2019s theme was \u201cRecycle, Right,\u201d which lent itself to several interpretations that came out in the Tyrone commercials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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