Oct
10
I’m a Winner!
Written by Kate. Filed Under agriculture, farming, life, money, university, writing
This morning mom called my office within the first five minutes of me getting at work.
Mom: “I checked my email this morning and there was an email from your prof Owen, want me to read it to you?”
Kate: “Sure, I guess” (thinking that this will be about a course that mom was interested in and wondering why she would want to read the email to me)
Mom reading the email: “I have some good news, and because I don’t have Katelyn’s email address I’m contacting you hoping you will pass this on to her. Katelyn’s
“Dairy Days” video won a bronze award ($100) in the Canadian Farm Writers Federation annual writing and broadcasting awards last weekend”
Kate: “Woo Hoo $100!”
Well I guess the rest of the conversation doesn’t matter because woo hoo I won!
The Canadian Farm Writers Federation (CFWF) is a group of ag journalists, which includes reporters, editors and broadcasters in business and government, specializing in agricultural communications. The CFWF represents over 350 members who belong to organizations all over Canada. In conjunction with their daily reporting, they put on a competition annually, which includes categories such as “television, radio, and daily, monthly and weekly press reporting; media release; press column; press editorial and press feature.”
I won the bronze award in Television News Reporting. I made the video in my Agricultural Communications course at Guelph in my last semester there, it was one of the assignments that we had to complete. The topic assigned to me was ‘Dairy Days’, which is a program put on for Oxford County students in grade 4 to get a first hand look at dairy farming. I did research before the event (there was not very much information!), contacted people to interview, attended the event with our production team who get footage of the event and edit the video, interviewed people at the event, put together a script, taped voice overs (my fave part!), and then got to watch the final video.
My prof entered a bunch of videos from the class and amazingly enough our classes work came in 1st 2nd and 3rd! The must make him feel good as the prof.
So I’m guessing you want to see the video now right? Ok no laughing, I do look kind of silly… but here you go! And feel free to take a look around at other videos on Youtube added by “AgriComm” that our class produced, I do have another video on the site, see if you can find my other one.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNbBYT_Oig]
If that does not work please go here DAIRY DAYS
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Kate, that’s awesome! I know how fun all that stuff is too. I sent the blog to all my coworkers
KATE!! That is soo awesome!
I’m proud of you sis.
Katelyn … that was awesome - congrats! I remember when my sisters came back from dairy days with cow AI tubes and they had no clue what they were (don’t look like the ones for pigs)!!