Whiz Kids: Video Makers

Pine-Richland Patch features a Whiz Kid or Kids to honor young people who wow us with their accomplishments. 

Names: The PRTV class, the PRTV Club, Selina Bitting, Jared and Cullen Grubbs, Jessica Malandro, Tanner Davis and Eric Holmes

School:

Accomplishment: These students captured a Pine-Richland record of six Television and Video Teachers awards April 13 at the 18th Annual TVT Student Festival at Robert Morris University. Pine-Richland was one of 28 schools entered in the festival.  

Key to Awesomeness: The students' work speaks for itself -- just click on their videos (above) in this story. Here are the awards, title entry names and winners:

• Unedited Live Event: "Pine-Richland Football vs. Woodland Hills" -- PRTV Club
• Animation/Graphics (best in category): "A Day in The Life of A Caveman" -- Video Production 3 student Selina Bitting
• Commercial: "Mickey Blu's Green Screens" -- Video Production 3 students Jared & Cullen Grubbs
• Digital Cinema: "Seek" -- Video Production 3 and PRTV student Jessica Malandro
• Documentary: "Pittsburgh Power" -- PRTV students Tanner Davis and Eric Holmes
• School Announcements: "PRTV Morning Announcements" -- PRTV class  (This video, an episode of "PRTV News," can be seen daily at 5 and 6 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays on Armstrong Cable digital channel 211 and regular cable channel 50. You can also see PRTV on Consolidated cable channel 504 at the same times.)

We want to hear about the amazing young people in the Pine-Richland community. Send us your nominations by writing in the comment box below or email cindy.micco@patch.com. We need the name of the child, age, school, accomplishment and key to awesomeness.