Room 208: CONGRATULATIONS!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

CONGRATULATIONS!

The first annual Middle Schools of the Desert Film Festival was held in La Quinta this evening, at Colonel Mitchell Paige Middle School. Students from our class entered two of the three festival categories (Academic and Short Film), and supplied 10 of the 41 submissions in the festival as a whole. Workman students dominated the Academic movie category, and swept ALL of the awards!

First Place Academic Movie: Danielle C. and Jaclyn S.
Second Place Academic Movie: Isabel O.
Third Place Academic Movie: Katie B. and McKenna B.

If you see any of these students, shake their hand! Congratulations, Bighorns! :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Hey Mrs.Pack i juct wanted to let you know that I am so happy I got 1st place. Also for all of the things that you helped Danielle and I with.
Jaclyn S.; April 18, 2008 at 9:20 AM
Anonymous said...: Hey,
Mrs. Pack thanks 4 putting our me and Jaclyn's names on the blog for 1st place in the academic category of the film festival. That video named "The Elements of Truth'' was so good they really deserved to win the grand prize.; April 19, 2008 at 7:10 PM
Anonymous said...: This is really not on subject but can we work on our flow map...........; April 20, 2008 at 3:48 PM

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