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Thailand Students Win Grand Prix for Panasonic KWN Global Contest 2015
Panasonic (News - Alert) Corporation announced that Montfort College of Thailand won
the Grand Prix for its video "Blind's Diary" in the Panasonic Kid
Witness News (KWN) Global Contest 2015. The students from Montfort
College were honored at the awards ceremony held in Singapore on August
26. Students from other finalist schools also attended the ceremony,
where they were recognized with category awards, including "Best
Concept."
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The seven finalist videos focused on topics ranging from impact and
interactions through social media, earthquake disasters, to interactions
with family members and others. The Grand Prix winning video, which is
based on a true story, portrays a visually impaired girl who attends a
regular school. While worrying about burdening other students, she
overcomes her struggles at school and eventually accepts her situation,
which enables her to achieve academic results with her friends' support.
The video conveys a strong message of mutual support to achieve dreams
in a diverse society.
KWN is a hands-on video education program that Panasonic operates as
part of its efforts to support education. The company lends video
cameras and other production equipment to elementary and middle schools
participating in the program. Currently, some 5,000 children and
teachers around the world are taking part in the program. Since the
program began in the United States in 1989, more than 175,000 children
have participated.
2015 marks the first time KWN Global Contest Awards Ceremony is held in
Southeast Asia. The event, which coincides with Singapore's 50th
anniversary of its independence, was attended by Mr. Toru Nishida,
Managing Director, Panasonic Asia Pacific, as well as dignitaries
including Mr. Hawazi Daipi, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of
Education and Ministry of Manpower of Singapore; Mr. Ng Ser Miang,
member of the International Olympic Committee and Chairman of the
Finance Commission; Mr. Duane Kale, Governing Board Member, the
International Paralympic Committee; and Mr. Mark Wallace, Head of
Production, the Olympic Broadcasting Services
From this year's application, Panasonic, an Official Worldwide Olympic
partner and an Official worldwide Paralympic Partner, will add "sports"
to the list of themes of KWN Global Contest, in addition to the existing
themes of "ecology" and "communication," to stimulate children's
interest in sports. The KWN program honors the video works created
by children every year. To produce videos, students choose a theme on
their own and then handle all aspects of video-making, from planning and
scripting to filming and editing. This year, 553 schools from 19
countries and regions participate in this program. For this KWN Global
Contest 2015, the schools submitted five-minute videos themed about
either ecology or communication.
This year's Grand Prize winner and the other finalists' videos can be
viewed on the following websites: - KWN Global Contest 2015: http://www.panasonic.com/global/corporate/kwn/contest2015/
¦ Summary of the seven award-winning videos
(Listed by country in alphabetical order)
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Prize
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Country/Name of School Video Title
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Theme Category/Synopsis (News - Alert)
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Grand Prix & Best Concept
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[Thailand] Montfort College
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Communication:
A visually impaired girl attends a non-special-needs school and,
while worrying about burdening other students, she overcomes
struggles at school and eventually accepts herself and achieves
academic results with her friends' support.
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Blind's Diary
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Best Storytelling
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[China] Beijing Haidian Wanquan Primary School
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Communication:
A girl, who lost her mother, lives with her father, stepmother and
stepsister. She feels she doesn't belong to the family as no one
celebrates her birthday. The video appeals the importance of
providing children with love and affection of the family.
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Happy Birthday
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Best Witness
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[Germany] Secondary School Isernhagen
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Communication:
This documentary focusing on a traveling circus family shows their
unique lifestyle, different from that of ordinary people, through
daily lives of circus performers and their children, and backstage
scenes.
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Living Differently - Circus Mulan
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Global Citizen
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[Japan]
Nakoso 1st
Junior High School
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Communication:
Fukushima is still under the influence of Great East Japan
Earthquake that hit the area four years ago. Middle school
students in the region learn the importance of connecting with
others through participation in a charity relay marathon in Tokyo
and activities to support Fukushima.
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Run! Nako-ichi Run!...
for Fukushima
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Contemporary Imagery
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[Malaysia] Benoni Secondary School Papar, Sabah, Malaysia
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Communication:
A teenage girl gradually gets addicted to taking selfies with her
mobile phone, spending many hours every day. That leads to a
drastic change in her personality, then results in an incident.
The video conveys a message that you should accept the way you
are, not how you look in photos.
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JUST CLICK IT
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Creative Media
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[Singapore] Clementi Town Secondary School
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Communication:
The video shows interviews with students and college professors,
exploring how people perceive their self-worth through their
persona on social media. It warns against putting too much focus
on social media. The video combines animation and live action.
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Social ME-dia
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Best Editing
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[United States of America] Val Verde High School
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Communication:
A teenage girl goes through a mysterious experience while falling
in love with a boy whom she met through SNS. The video brings
awareness to the dangers of friendship social networking sites,
with which many teenagers are obsessed.
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FACE TO FACE
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¦ About Panasonic Kid Witness News KWN 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. The program was subsequently expanded on a
global scale. This year, 553 schools from 19 countries and regions
participate 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. The global network of KWN schools also provides a
platform for international exchange among KWN students.
19 countries and regions participating in KWN
(Countries listed in alphabetical order)
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North America
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Canada, United States
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Central and South America
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Chile
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Europe
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Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia
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Middle and Near East
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Iraq, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates
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Asia
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China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,
Vietnam
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Oceania
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New Zealand
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About Panasonic Panasonic
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electronics, housing, automotive, enterprise solutions and device
industries. Since its founding in 1918, the company has expanded
globally and now operates 468 subsidiaries and 94 associated companies
worldwide, recording consolidated net sales of 7.715 trillion yen for
the year ended March 31, 2015. Committed to pursuing new value through
innovation across divisional lines, the company uses its technologies to
create a better life and a better world for its customers. To learn more
about Panasonic: http://www.panasonic.com/global
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