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Neuqua Media Students Earn Top Honors
The 31st Annual High School Video Festival, sponsored by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Midwest Media Educators Association (MMEA), was held on Friday, April 26, 2024 at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, IL. Students from the Media Production 1, Media Production 2, and Media Production 3 classes at Neuqua Valley High School participated in the annual competition along with high school media students from 40 high schools across the Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin/Northwest Indiana area.
Neuqua Valley earned 6 top honors.
2nd Place – Dramatic Narrative: “Hiding in Plain Sight” by Jayden Adkins and Emma Jenkins
2nd Place – News Program: “Wildcat Weekly” by Sienna McEneaney, Mridula Natarajan, Presley Kiecker, and Chloe O’Keefe
3rd Place – PSA: “ ‘This is America’ Game Show PSA” by Jayden Adkins
4th Place – 7-Day Challenge: “Soy un Perdedor” by Jayden Adkins & Emma Jenkins
5th Place – News Package: “Neuqua Alumni” by John Haralambopoulos
5th Place – PSA: “Look Up From the Screen” by Ani Avedourmian
Finalist – Comedic Narrative: “Mistakes in a Loop” by Aidan Wonderling, Yousef Abutaleb, Christopher Devor, Bailey Smith
Finalist – Comedic Narrative: “Hungry” by Charlie Scriven-Young
Finalist – Demonstration: “How to Make a Stop Motion Animation” by Yousef Abutaleb and Christopher Devor
Finalist – Documentary: “My Flag” by Maxwell Njau
Finalist – Movie Trailer: “Hyperbowl” by Yousef Abutaleb, Christopher Devor, Bailey Smith
Finalist – Natural Audio News Package: “Varsity Dance” by Mridula Natarajan
Finalist – News Package: “Competitive Speech Team” by Sienna McEneaney
* The Chicago/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recently announced that 1 Neuqua Valley entry has been awarded a Student Production Award for Excellence in the following category:
- “ ‘This is America’ Game Show PSA” in the Public Service Announcement category by Jayden Adkins
This entry will move on to the national competition and compete against the winners from the other NATAS chapters.
Neuqua Valley also received another Student Production Award nomination in the Magazine Category for “Wildcat Weekly” by Sienna McEneaney, Mridula Natarajan, Presley Kiecker, and Chloe O’Keefe.
*Senior Presley Kiecker was presented with the $2,500 Silver Circle Scholarship by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
The TV Academy created the Student Award of Excellence to honor outstanding television journalism by high school students in 2003. This is the 20th Student Awards of Excellence that Neuqua Valley has been awarded.
For more information on the Student Television Award for Excellence, visit: http://chicagoemmyonline.org/students/