A group of Tyrone Area Middle School sixth graders recently took second place in the elementary division of the Blair County Commissioner\u2019s ninth annual Environment Awareness Video Competition, one of two groups from the school to be awarded in this year\u2019s contest.
\nHannah Halter, Grant Gonder, Jesse Shaffer and Kevin Seiner will be recognized by the commissioners at a May awards ceremony for their video \u201cBreakfast Penalty.\u201d The video is done as a commercial and is a spin off of the popular Budweiser referee commercials, but in this one, two breakfast eaters are penalized for not recycling what they buy.
\nEleventh graders Nate Barber, Mike Thomas, Chris Bradigan, Rebecca Diehl and Zac Yeaton took honorable mention in the high school division for their video which uses elapsed time photography, combined with hard-hitting statistics to reinforce the importance of recycling.
\nBoth groups will receive plaques in recognition of their achievement at a ceremony at the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg on May 3. The sixth graders will also receive a check for $300 for their educational needs.
\nStudents were also recognized at a recent Tyrone Area School District School Board meeting. Teacher Kerry Naylor introduced the sixth graders and gave a video presentation to school board members, administrators and guests.
\nHe said the effort required a lot of teamwork and said the project couldn\u2019t have been done without senior high art teacher Eric Feather, his class, parents, families.
\nIt was the second straight year a Tyrone Middle School group was recognized in the contest which is open to all Blair County Schools. Last year, a group of sixth graders received an honorable mention.
\nThis year\u2019s contest theme was \u201cRecycle What You Buy, Buy What You Recycle.\u201d In all, four groups from Tyrone Middle\/High School entered.
\nAccording to a release from Naylor, just two years ago, the district received a grant that allowed them to purchase state of the art digital video equipment and supply training for a group of teachers.
\n\u201cWhen we first were trained on this equipment, I never thought it would be this accessible to the students this quickly,\u201d said Naylor. \u201cThey pick up on it very quickly and young people generally enjoy the challenges of working with technology. But more than that, the kids wrote and directed a very creative video.\u201d
\nNaylor, a gifted support teacher at the middle school, worked on the project with the sixth grade group. Feather worked with the 11th grade group as part of his digital video class.
\n\u201cThis is the first year for my class, so I\u2019m proud the students can be successful so quickly,\u201d said Feather. \u201cI\u2019m proud of the work they did and look forward to continuing our participation in activities like this one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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