Panasonic Corporation (NYSE:PC)(TOKYO:6752) today announced that
Sembawang Secondary School from Singapore won the Grand Prix Award
of the Panasonic Kid Witness News (KWN) Global Contest 2012. The
announcement was made at the award ceremony which started at 14:00
(BST) on August 10 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London with
representatives of the six finalist schools attended.
Students from China, Japan, Malaysia,
U.S.A., U.K. and winners of the Grand Prix award Singapore during
the Panasonic Kid Witness News Awards Ceremony in London. (Photo
credit: John Phillips/PA)
This year's finalists, selected from among the films - up to
five minutes long - submitted by 718 schools from 31 countries and
regions around the world, dealt with a variety of issues within the
two themes of the contest: ecology and communication, including
recycling, family ties and friendship, as well as hardships caused
by last year's earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
The Grand Prix winning video features a story of a young girl
who grieves over her sister's suicide and her inability to prevent
it with closer communications within the family. The film is titled
"The First Appearance of Light" after the girl's name, Dawn.
Each of the six finalists representing China, Japan, Malaysia,
Singapore, the United Kingdom and the United States also received a
KWN Global Award trophy in different categories (see the table on
next page).
Japan's Iwasaki Junior High School from Fukushima Prefecture in
the northeastern coastal region hit hard by the disaster in March
last year won the Best Witness award with their video titled "We
Are From…" The film shares hardships gone through by the students
and their family and friends through interviews and conveys their
gratitude for people who extended help and pride in their home
town.
KWN is a hands-on video education program designed to help
children develop creativity and cognitive and communication skills
through the use of video. Panasonic provides video cameras and
other equipment to participating schools for their video
productions. Since the KWN program was started in 1989 in the U.S.,
more than 160,000 students and teachers around the world have
participated to date, with currently some 10,000 taking part each
year.
In the global contest, videos that won national and regional KWN
contests were screened first by local judges of the KWN offices
around the world and then by a panel of international judges
including experts in film-making, education and journalism to
determine the Grand Prix and category awards.
All of the above works can be viewed at the Web site:
http://panasonic.net/kwn/contest2012/
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Summary of KWN Global Contest 2012
Award Winners
Award Country/School
Title/Synopsis Grand Prix
&
Best Script
Singapore
Sembawang SecondarySchool
The First Appearance of LightA
story about two close sisters, just one year apart. The younger one
and their friends tell about the elder sister, who committed
suicide after sexual abuse, emphasizing the importance of close
communication between friends as well as family members.
Best
Visual Effect
United States
Val Verde High School
Fuhgeddaboudit! (Forget about
it!)An animated film tells the importance of sorting and
recycling with a comical touch, featuring a trash can and trash,
including a discarded can that fears its fate when it's not
properly separated and mixed up with other types of trash.
Best Videography
China
Beijing Wanquan PrimarySchool
Balcony • SunshineA girl who is
worried about stammering practices reading poems on a rooftop with
help from a boy in her class. The story follows them helping each
other, as the girl overcomes her anxieties about speaking.
Best Witness Japan
Iwasaki Junior High School
We Are From…The Great Eastern Japan
Earthquake in March 2011 forced students in a disaster-hit area to
leave their hometown and live apart in various different places in
Japan. When reunited, they frankly talk about their feelings then
and how they are coping with their lives today.
Best Research
Malaysia
Dato' Abdul Razak SchoolSeremban
The Factory ChickenThis film takes
a look at how raising chickens, which are indispensable and
routinely put on the table in Malaysia, is threatening the
environment of a beautiful village. The film suggests reviewing the
benefits of free-range farming, compared to large-scale factory
farming which can produce odors and other pollutions.
Best Documentary
United Kingdom
Knox Academy
Knife Crime: Think of Life Put Down the
KnifeA knife that is carried for self-defense can sometimes get
teenagers involved in knife crime. Presenting views of various
people on this issue, this film calls on teenagers to "put down the
knife."
All of the above works can be viewed at the website:
http://panasonic.net/kwn/contest2012/
About Kid Witness NewsKWN
got its start in 1989 in the U.S. as a hands-on video education
program supported by Panasonic North America, which supplied video
cameras and editing equipment to public elementary and middle
schools to make news programs from the perspective of children and
young adults. The program was subsequently expanded to encompass
all 50 U.S. states, and then in recent years grew on a global
scale, encompassing Europe, Southeast Asia and Japan. At present,
718 schools from 31 countries and regions are participants in the
program.
KWN is designed to foster creativity and presentation skills
among young students. Supervising teachers cite further merits of
the program such as a heightened awareness of the environment and
the community as well as development of team skills among
participants through the process of creating videos and covering
the news. Further, the expanding network of KWN schools provides a
platform for international exchange among the KWN students. For
example, live video conferences connected by the Internet provide
children in different countries opportunities to exchange their
views and opinions using Panasonic's smart TVs and HD video
conference systems.
For further details of KWN, please refer to the following
websites.
General information on KWN global
program:http://panasonic.net/kwn/
General information on Panasonic's corporate citizenship
activities:http://panasonic.net/citizenship/
Panasonic News Portal:
http://news.panasonic.net/stories/series/kwn2012/
In addition to KWN, Panasonic also conducts a variety of
educational programs including the Eco Picture Diary Contest, the
Jump Rope Competition and the Global Eco Learning Program under the
umbrella scheme of "Panasonic Kids School," in which over 460,000
children currently take part worldwide. In the hopes of promoting
the sound development of children and mutual understanding among
people around the world, Panasonic will continue in its work to
promote and expand these activities in the future.
About Panasonic
Panasonic Corporation is a worldwide leader in the development
and manufacture of electronic products in three business fields,
consumer, components & devices, and solutions. Based in Osaka,
Japan, the company recorded consolidated net sales of 7.85 trillion
yen for the year ended March 31, 2012. Panasonic's stock is listed
on the Tokyo (TOKYO:6752), Osaka, Nagoya and New York (NYSE:PC)
Stock Exchanges. The company has the vision of becoming the No. 1
Green Innovation Company in the Electronics Industry by the 100th
year of its founding in 2018. For more information on Panasonic,
its brand and commitment to sustainability, visit the company's
website at http://panasonic.net/.
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