SPARKY AWARD WINNERS SPECIAL MERIT AWARD GROW UP

SPARKY AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Student videos offer unique views on information sharing

Washington, DC - February 3, 2009 - Four student productions are winners of the second annual Sparky Awards, a contest organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) and adopted by campuses nationwide that calls on entrants to creatively illustrate in a short video the value of sharing ideas.

Selected by a distinguished panel of media scholars, educators, librarians, students, and others, the winning videos offer potent and colorful glimpses of how students see sharing of knowledge spurring innovation, solving problems, and improving lives. The winners were announced on January 24 at a public screening held in connection with the American Library Association Midwinter Conference in Denver. The videos will also be screened at the Campus MovieFest Southern Regional Grand Finale in Atlanta March 28 and 29, 2009.

This year's winners are:

GRAND PRIZE WINNER:
To Infinity and Beyond
By Danaya Panya, Sebastian Rivera, Hemanth Sirandas, Uriel Rotstein, and Jaymeni Patel, University of Illinois at Chicago Honors College
http://urliek.blogspot.com/2009/01/sparky-awards-entry.html

FIRST RUNNER UP:
How to Make Things Easier
By Taejin Kim, Savannah College of Art and Design
http://blip.tv/file/1493053

SECOND RUNNER UP:
Brighter
By Christopher Wetzel, Ohio Northern University
http://www.vimeo.com/2373573

SPECIAL MERIT AWARD:
GrowUp
By Cécile Iran, Laurie Glassmann, Christophe Zidler, Aldric de Villartay, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin, France
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7kaif_growup_creation