The Chase Multimedia in the Classroom award competition was created to showcase the creative use of technology by students and teachers in a collaborative effort. These dynamic projects both support, as well as often go beyond the classroom curriculum. In these past five years there have been many innovative projects, well-deserving of the accolades that are bestowed upon them at the Celebration. We thank the teachers and students for their efforts and know that you’ll find these projects as inspiring as we have.

Congratulations to this year’s winners!

Watch the Chase Award winners on stage at the 2009 Celebration here.

AND THE 2009 WINNERS ARE:

Pomona Middle School, Suffern, NY

Native American Website
(Web social studies project)
Working in pairs, the seventh-grade students created different Web pages on tribes or civilizations found throughout the Americas for their Native American Indian Website. Narrations, recorded by the students, were uploaded to each page. The Web also utilizes hyperlinks and blogs. External Link

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Xavier High School, New York, NY

Second Sight: The Future of Visual Enhancement
(Web science project)
The Website was completed via collaboration between a Web design class and a Robotics class. It provides an overview of the current state of ocular robotic prostheses and presents a look at the future of this field. It also represents a student created potential product line of optical enhancement devices. External Link

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The Theatre Arts Production Company School, MS/HS 225, Bronx, NY

The Base Ten Number System
(Video math project)
We use numbers every day and tend to take them for granted. But what are numbers? How did they come about? Did every culture develop the concept of numbers and counting separately or was it an idea that was communicated between cultures? Why is our base 10 and not 11 or 12? By utilizing drama, comedy and a math lesson, the video attempts to answer these important questions.

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Denton Avenue Elementary School, New Hyde Park, NY

Time Zone Experiences
(Web global awareness project)
Our wiki is an ongoing resource project which allows elementary school children from around the world to explore time zone and climate differences. By examining their own time zone events and climate changes each month, children are able to compare themselves to others around the world, leading to greater awareness of global connections and the ability to work collaboratively. External Link

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Wyandanch Memorial High School, Wyandanch, NY

How Technology Helps us Learn
(Video arts/technology project)
This video shows how digital applications allow us to acquire skills utilized not only in our school, but also in our day-to-day activities. From playing at home to working in an office, technology is key to our success in life. We show how technology has helped us become award-winning students and a strong group of individuals.

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Marymount School, New York, NY

The Hamlet Project
(Multimedia arts, ELA project)
Students participated in a group project in which they created a graphic novel, updating an original scene or creating a new one inspired by Shakespeare’s characters and events. Students were responsible for storyboarding ideas; directing a photo shoot in which they portrayed the characters; creating costumes; writing plots and text to contextualize the images, while using digital photography, iPhoto, Comic Life, and Adobe Acrobat.

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P.S. 7K, Brooklyn, NY

Our River: Human Impact on the Hudson River
(Multimedia social studies, science, arts project)
We explore the history, population growth and ecology of the Hudson River. The histories of local rivers provide insight into the effect population growth has on a natural resource and the cumulative impact of individual actions. Using iMovie the students and teacher collaborated to present their learning in a fun and innovative way.

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Marion Street Elementary School, Lynbrook, NY

Children Will Keep our Earth Green
(Video global awareness project)
Our Photo Story presentation encourages children to prevent global warming. Our fifth-graders invited participation from first-graders who were starting a recycling program in our school. In an effort to make our message truly global, we collaborated with our high school foreign language students, who helped translate our audio portion into Spanish, Italian and Japanese.

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Ditmas I.S. 62, Brooklyn, NY

A Changing America
(Video social studies project)
Teachers and students embarked on a mission to embrace technology and education. This video is an exciting effort to combine differentiated instruction for the purposes of teaching and learning American history in the classroom.

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William McKinley I.S. 259, Brooklyn, NY

Phantom of the Opera
(Multimedia arts project)
In a powerful, moving, creative way, students utilize original artwork, photography and video performances to depict the basic theme of the Phantom of the Opera.

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Click here to see award-winning videos from the 2008 Celebration.
For more information, please call 212.560.2032 or e-mail chaseawards@thirteen.org.