Congratulations to the following Eastview broadcasting students who won four 2007-2008 National Television Academy Awards (otherwise known as Student Emmy Awards) and seven Honorable Mention Emmy Awards out of seven possible categories in the Upper Midwest Region of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Andrew Wipf won the Craft Achievement category for his Adobe After Effects portfolio. Ben Wagner and Blake Hanson won the News category for their story on teen driving. Blake Hanson, James Jobes and Matt Hoerl won both the Sports category and the Writing category for their piece on Tyler Cropsey. Grant Swanson received an honorable mention in the Craft Achievement category for his special effects portfolio. Michelle Patten earned an honorable mention in the Arts and Entertainment category for her story on the One Act performance. Ashley Coyne and Taylor Paino earned honorable mention in the Public Service Announcement category for their piece called “Truth”. Students in The Flash and The 4Cast received an honorable mention in the Long Form category for their episode of The Storm Watch. Matt Hoerl and Colleen Schreier earned honorable mention in the News category for their story on the bridge collapse. Taylor Paino and Matt Hoerl earned honorable mention in the Sports category for their story on the adapted soccer team. Ben Wagner and Blake Hanson earned honorable mention in the Writing category for their story on teen driving.
Eastview High School broadcast and multimedia students won 6 Emmy awards and 5 honorable mention Emmy awards (out of 7 possible categories) in the 2006-2007 Upper Midwest Region of the National Television Academy. Megan Rowley, Colleen Kiron and Michael Ewen won two Emmy awards (for best documentary and best news story) for pieces on the Dakota Hawks adapted soccer team. Annie Burger won an Emmy in the PSA category for her piece on diversity. Mike Alger won an Emmy in sports for his story on an Eastview wrestling family. Michael Ewen won an Emmy in technical achievement for his 3d animation composite. Zach Philbrick won an Emmy in the writing category for his story on Pearl Harbor Day. Michael Ewen won honorable mention in arts and entertainment for his 3d portfolio. Aaron White, Michael Ewen and Casey Sherwin won honorable mention in the sports category for their story on losing gracefully. Michael Ewen, Aaron White, Shannon Stadther, Blake Hanson, James Jobes, and Paul Hjellming won honorable mention in technical achievement for the movie Shades of Gray. Mike Alger won honorable mention in the writing category for his story on the 10 year anniversary of Eastview. Jean Park won honorable mention in the documentary category for her piece on Bravo!
Students in The Flash and The 4Cast placed in the top 5 in six different categories, the most of any school in the country, in the 2007 Student Television Network Spring Nationals. Megan Rowley, Colleen Kiron, and Michael Ewen finished in 2nd place in the sports news category for their story on the Dakota Hawks adapted floor hockey team. Students in The Flash finished in 2nd place in the weekly show category for the 3/26/07 edition of The Flash. Cole Trace, Joe Weise and Alec Schimke finished 3rd in the live coverage of a sporting event category for the Eastview vs. Lakeville South basketball game. Nina Moini, Alec Schimke, Casey Sherwin, Tara Smith, Scott Horvath, Megan Rowley, Brian Griepp, Ashley Kuehne, Will Malchodi, and Heidi Svien earned honorable mention in the 60 second commercial category for their piece on Eastview Singles. Students in The Flash and The 4Cast earned honorable mention for best monthly show for The Storm Watch. Students in The Flash earned honorable mention for best live show for the 3/29/07 edition of The Flash.
Eastview students won five regional Emmy awards and two honorable mention Emmys in 2005-2006. McKenna Ewen won three Emmys – best news story and best arts feature for his Eastview Steppers segments. He also won the writing category for his screenplay “Shades Of Gray”. Kelsey Eliason won best public service announcement for a piece called “Religous Tolerance.” Ryan Mundahl won best sports category for his girls’ soccer highlights. Megan Groves was honorable mention with her story on the holidazzle parade and Jenny Zanatta was honorable mention for public service announcement.
Students at Eastview High School won two regional Emmy Awards in 2004-2005. They won the Technical Achievement category for The Flash Holiday Show and won the Writing category for The Flash Political Show. Eastview students also received Honorable Mention awards in three other categories: Public Service for Nathan Henry’s Destruction of the Rainforest, Arts & Entertainment for William Meiklejohn’s When You Fall, and Sports for Tim Olson’s Lightning Football Highlights.
