STN Day 6

Today is the sixth day of the STN trip! Today, we woke up early to eat breakfast in the rooms since today was the day of closing ceremony and sadly the last day of STN! By far, this was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had. I can’t believe we’ve gotten this far prepping for competition and we’re appreciative that it payed off. We waited for closing ceremony to start, in line for an hour! Finally, we were accepted to go in and take our seats. The fun part was that our group got from row seats and sat next to the rest of the State of Hawaii schools on the left hand side of the stage. The closing ceremony lasted from 10am to a little over 12pm. CKTV Media Productions placed honorable mention in anchoring, second place for spot feature, and third place for PSA, and first place for Crazy 8’s News Magazine! I was so stunned with excitement of how much we’ve accomplished. I was very happy for our teams and how hard their work paid off. Unfortunately, our movie trailer team did not place anything, even when we’ve had lots of practice. But I am glad that there sure was improvement in our movie trailer that we entered compared to the previous ones. I really do see the improvement that we’ve done compared to before and I’m very happy about that. After, closing ceremonies, we took a group picture with the schools of Hawaii. I found it really touching that someone led everyone to sing " Hawai’i Pono’i," our state anthem song. It really represents who we are and what we do. After all the picture taking and celebrations, we went to our rooms to drop off things and get ready to go to the mall for the rest of the day. We walked to the mall to have lunch and shop for a few hours until around 7pm when the mall closes. Our friends from the Big Island wanted to get together before they were heading back home and we wouldn’t see them again. For a while at least what I’d like to say. So we talked story and hung out for a little while until we were supposed to go back to our rooms. Then, we all showered and ate snacks in the rooms and hung out reminiscing over our passed experience this week in Tennessee. I would definitely visit again.