Val Verde High School’s student team traveled this week to Panasonic Corporation of North America’s headquarters in New Jersey to participate in the KWN New Vision Awards ceremony along with fellow finalists Maui High School (Maui, HI), Rachel B. Noel Middle School (Denver, CO) and Kingston High School (Kingston, NY) which were also award winners for their creative videos on social issues such as surviving cancer, texting and body image.
Developed and funded by Panasonic, Kid Witness News is a unique, hands-on video education program created to encourage students to develop valuable cognitive, communication and organizational skills through the use of video. Panasonic provides each participating school with a complete Digital Video Studio and suggested guidelines to augment the school’s curriculum to encourage the children to express their hopes and concerns about the world around them. Under teacher supervision, the students create, produce, direct and edit video shorts on a wide range of topics including current events and issues relevant to today’s youth for submission in the yearly competition. This year each school was provided with a Panasonic professional HD video camera so their work could be produced in High Definition quality.
The program began in 1989 with one school in New Jersey and has since grown to include participants from 60 schools throughout the United States and 679 schools worldwide. Thousands of students take part in this unique program annually in 26 countries around the world. To date, more than 140,000 students worldwide have participated in the program.
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