{"id":6702,"date":"2017-05-24T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/?p=6702"},"modified":"2017-05-26T10:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:18:31","slug":"students-share-stories-win-state-national-pta-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/students-share-stories-win-state-national-pta-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Students share their stories, win state and national PTA awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016-17 PTA Reflections contest theme posed a question to students: \u201cWhat is Your Story?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students submitted their stories to local PTA units in six categories: dance choreography, film production, literature, music composition, photography and visual arts.<\/p>\n<p>Award-winning Reflections entries at the local level advanced to the Tidewater district level and subsequently to the Virginia PTA for review.<\/p>\n<p>The following three VBCPS students won the top PTA Reflections award, Outstanding Interpretation, at the state level:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samantha Boundrant, Kempsville High School, literature (special artist division)<\/li>\n<li>Izzy Henson, Plaza Middle School, literature (junior\/middle school division)<\/li>\n<li>Michael Lawlor, Cox High School, film production (high school division)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three state winners qualified for review at the national level and Lawlor\u2019s film, \u201cBig Wave Surf,\u201d earned a third-place National PTA Award of Merit in the high school division.<\/p>\n<p>Lawlor\u2019s winning production was filmed over the course of several months with the sole purpose of proving anyone wrong who does not believe Virginia has waves big enough to surf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honestly, I just entered the PTA Reflections film contest just to see what would happen, if I could get anywhere,&#8221; Lawlor said. &#8220;But the film clip kept winning; it&#8217;s actually pretty cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6703\" style=\"width: 3479px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3479\" height=\"2320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic.jpg 3479w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-lawlor-2-pic-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3479px) 100vw, 3479px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawlor (center) with Tidewater PTA representatives Kelly Johnson (left) and Shelly Jones (right) after winning the state PTA Reflections award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Four additional VBCPS students won awards from the Virginia PTA for their Reflections entries:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kenneth Rodman, Ocean Lakes High School, Award of Excellence, musical composition (high school division)<\/li>\n<li>Nathaniel Zhang, Great Neck Middle School, Award of Excellence, musical composition (junior\/middle school division)<\/li>\n<li>Chandler Doebler, Ocean Lakes High School, Award of Merit, photography (special artist division)<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Dadiomoff Creeds ES Honorable Mention, visual arts (special artist division)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The National PTA has already announced its 2017-18 Reflections theme: \u201cWithin Reach.\u201d Local PTA units will share timelines and guidelines next fall for submitting\u00a0student entries.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more information about the PTA Reflections program, visit the National PTA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pta.org\/programs\/reflections.cfm?ItemNumber=4571&amp;&amp;navItemNumber=510\">website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016-17 PTA Reflections contest theme posed a question to students: \u201cWhat is Your Story?\u201d Virginia Beach City Public Schools (VBCPS) students submitted their stories to local PTA units in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6712,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6702\/revisions\/6712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}