Kawananakoa student video nominated for award

"Better Food Photography," a video created by Kawananakoa Middle School students Samantha Diaz, Amber Kim, Kevin Liu, and Carmen Yim was nominated for the Best Franchise Piece Award for Season One of Hiki No. A franchise piece is a short video, about 1 to 2 minutes, giving a piece of information or a "how to" type of story. Kawananakoa's video was chosen by industry professionals as one of the best pieces produced in the first season of Hiki No. This video first premired on April 18, 2011.

food photography

The Tech Club is working on its second piece to be shown on the Hiki No program. The topic is "How to take a better food photo." Today they tried out taking pictures of some cupcakes to get ready.  This was the best of the bunch. The cupcakes were good too. but only the "talent" got the cupcakes. Everyone else settled for donuts.

Hiki No

On Monday February 28, at 5 PM, Kawananakoa Middle school will be part of the premire broadcast of Hiki No on PBS (channel 10, digital cable channel 90, HD channel 1010). It will be the first student produced newscast in the nation. Encoresscheduled for Mondays @ 5 pm, Tuesdays @ 12:30 pm, Fridays @ 9:30 pm, Saturdays @12:30 pm, and Sundays @ 3:00 pm. Hiki Nō programs will also be available at: www.pbshawaii.org/hikino