California Student Media Festival

California Student Media Festival

Timeline

Cost: FREE!
Submissions Open:
February 21, 2011
Submissions Due:
April 18, 2011
Winners Announced:
May 24, 2011 - 12:00pm
Grand Prize Winners Announced at the Festival
  • Location TBA




About Us

Now in its 45th year, the California Student Media Festival is our nation’s oldest student media festival. Over the past seventeen years, the California Student Media Festival has awarded more than $100,000 to California Schools. It has expanded to include the work of more than 6,000 student contestants from schools across the state. The festival exists to celebrate the amazing media and multimedia projects produced by California’s best and brightest students and teachers — rewarding and acknowledging their successful classroom work at an awards event on Saturday, June 4th, 2011. The Festival showcases what can be accomplished when talented students and dedicated teachers work together integrating media and multimedia into education.

Grade Levels:              K-12

Cost:                         FREE

The Festival believes that...

  • students are capable of extremely high level work, beginning at very early grades
  • media and multimedia are excellent tools for students
  • video and multimedia should be integrated into the regular subject-area curriculum
  • rewarding exemplary work and good school programs encourages more of both.

Watch the "Real Kids of Genius" promotional video  

Leadership

The California Student Media Festival is coordinated through the efforts of a group of passionate volunteers within its a steering committee. This body meets 8-10 times a year to direct festival activities. Members of this steering committee take on various positions of responsibility, including Director, Associate Director, Festival Emcee, Plaque Coordinator, Chief Geek, Judging Coordinator and others as needed. Additionally, the festival depends on the volunteer judging site coordinators who gather interested educators to judge categories and select winners.

44th Annual Festival Steering Committee Members:

  • Jamie Annunzio
  • Gayle Britt
  • Hall Davidson
  • Janet English
  • Dr. Lee Grafton
  • Karen Green
  • Dennis Grice
  • Alex Hakobian
  • Rushton Hurley
  • Mike Lawrence
  • Doug Niva
  • Michael Simkins

We thank these volunteers for their time, talent and commitment to excellence in student achievement.