Congratualtions to Rick, Jacob and Eric on a fantastic achievement from everyone here at Panasonic Australia HQ!
Year seven Mundingburra State School students Rick Goon Chew and Jacob Thompson and their teacher Erick Blechen triumphed above five competing schools from Canada, U.K., Malaysia, China and Japan in Japan at the Kid Witness News Global Finals in Tokyo, Japan.
The win saw them walk away with the ‘Creative Concept Award’ and the crowning ‘Grand Prix’ award at the official ceremony held in Tokyo, Japan last night. The film that secured their Global win, entitled “The Global Warming Rap”, is a dramatic, call to action, five-minute video montage that shows three penguins delivering an important message on our eco footprint and the survival of earth, through rap and animation.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oyeum0HbOw
“This has been a truly incredible journey. The global success of our short video has exceeded all our expectations. It’s a tremendous compliment to the students who worked extremely hard to create a film that communicates an important message about the consequential environmental effects of global warming. The KWN program has been an overwhelmingly positive experience for all students involved and I believe this project has inspired the students to realise their full potential. I am so proud of what they have achieved and I can not wait to get back to school to share our success with all the students who were responsible for the film’s grand slam win,”
Erick Blechen, Mundingburra State School and KWN Coordinator
Over the next two days the students will visit a ride on the bullet train, visit a Japanese school as well as taking in the sites of Tokyo. You will be able to follow the whole trip right here on the blog.
You can view all the images from the trip on our official Flickr profile here
You can view all the other posts about the trip here
The 2010 Australian KWN video competition kicked off in March with 63 primary and secondary schools from across the country taking part. The program, which has been running in Australia since 2004, requires students to work together to define a story, write a script, film and edit their submission using equipment provided to the school by Panasonic.