About Us
Now in its 42nd year, the California Students Media Festival is our nation’s oldest student media festival. Over the past fifteen years, the California Student Media Festival has awarded more than $100,000 to California Schools. It has expanded to include the work of more than 6,000 student contestants from schools across the state. The festival exists to celebrate the amazing media and multimedia projects produced by California’s best and brightest students and teachers — rewarding and acknowledging their successful classroom work at two separate awards event Saturday, May 31st, 2008. The Festival showcases what can be accomplished when talented students and dedicated teachers work together integrating media and multimedia into education.
Grade Levels: K-12
Cost: FREE
The Festival believes that...
- students are capable of extremely high level work, beginning at very early grades
- media and multimedia are excellent tools for students
- video and multimedia should be integrated into the regular subject-area curriculum
- rewarding exemplary work and good school programs encourages more of both.