Students in the Advanced Television Production Class Place in the Chicagoland Student Video Festival

Students in the Advanced Television Production Class competed in the Chicagoland Student Video Festival on April 28. The Chicagoland Student Video Festival is the largest student video festival in Illinois and attracts over 60 schools and 400 contestants.

GBSreturned home with several impressive achievements:

Logan Cascia returned with three awards:2nd place in dramatic narrative with "Outre."1st place in humorous narrative with “The Chaotic Adventures of Ed the Pencil”and finally, Logan won the prestigious $500 Nadine Sterk Scholarship for Excellence in Television Production.

Greg Kubik and Jack Sormaz placed first in video documentary with their "Mission for Mississippi" video. The documentary tells of the Interact Club's trip to Mississippi to work with Habitat for Humanity building homes for people who lost their's in Hurricane Katrina.

Naoki Izumo placed 1st in the Commercial Production.

Jackie Durment placed 3rd in Live Performing Arts Directing.

Andrew Austin and Sara Levi placed 2nd in the News Feature category with "The Making of Chaos."

Mark Helenowski placed 3rd in the News Story category for his story: "Tommy Faust: A Titan Hero."

Dan Kruzel bought home two awards: 3rd place in the video documentary category for his feature on ceramics teacher Kurt Webb; and 2nd place in Live Performing Arts Directing.

Congratulations GBS Advanced Television and Mark Ferguson.