FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE N.R. #125, 1/27/98
 

Date: January 27, 1998
Contact: Irene Cromer
703/791-8720
 

Prince William Network, the distance learning component of Prince William County Public Schools' Media Production Services Department, was awarded a Silver World Medal in the category of Distance Learning Special Events at the 1997 New York Festivals for To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now, a two-part distance learning program. First-place honors in this category were awarded to Ted Turner.

The New York Festivals, an international media awards competition, is held annually and rewards outstanding achievements in television news, documentary, and entertainment programming; promotion spots; and non-broadcast educational and industrial productions. More than 3,400 televison programs and non-broadcast productions from thirty-nine countries were submitted in the 1997 competition.

The Prince William Network, the distance learning component of Prince William County Public Schools' Media Production Services Department, has been producing live and interactive satellite educational programs for more than six years and is under the direction of Supervisor Ben Swecker. Staff members involved in the production of To Kill a Mockingbird: Then and Now are Greg Crabtree, Donny Haller, Karen King, Adrian Osbourne, Richard Shahan, Swecker, Mollie Watts, Stan Woodward and Janet Wrenn. Hylton High School television production students serve as crew members for all Prince William Network productions.