Media Partnership Challenge

At Global Student Forum 2009 Jon Snow of Channel 4 News launched The Media Partnership Challenge 2009.

Schools were challenged to create a concept and storyboard for a short film that would communicate issues around child mortality to the general public.

The winning entry would then be made into a short film, combining resources from Global Student Forum and Damaris.tv with the creativity and enthusiasm of the winning students, and would be promoted as widely as possible.

We received 29 entries, all of a very high standard and representing a lot of careful and creative work. These were carefully assessed by three judges working independently, scoring the entries according to the published criteria of Engagement, Effectiveness, Originality and Achievability. This resulted in a list of 17 entries which went through to the next stage.

These entries were then each carefully considered and discussed at a meeting of eleven judges, which took place in the boardroom of ITN, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News.

Winner: Reflection

Kesteven & Grantham Girls' School (Sophie Duffree, Rebecca Climpson, Kate O'Neill, Ellie Wood, Kirsty Hewitt, Hayley Goves, Natasha Cutmore, Emily Carter, Hollie Anderson). More details are available at:

www.globalstudentforum.org/reflection

We are also delighted to announce the runners-up:

Runner Up:

Farnborough 6th Form College (Amy Smith) I am the difference

Highly Commended:

Fearnhill School (Liam Mayet, Sam Johnson, Ryan Murphy, Emma Cooke, Parrees Ram, Meena Balley, Shaun Trussell, Jamie Laing)

St Michael's Catholic School (Shauna Mayers-Matthias, Sarah Adereti, Gabi Barria, Natasha Masih, Emma Molloy)