Every year, the Area Nine Cable Council and Cablevision of Connecticut honor students for their original television productions. Out of 280 student videos submitted for the competition, the students from NCTV walked away with five Educational Access Awareness or “Eddy” awards.
Freshmen Meghan Callahan, Shannon Esposito, and Emilie Kushner earned enough points to win first place in the Public Service Announcement (PSA) category, subsequently winning the first ever John M. Repicky Award. The piece about domestic violence, entitled Through a Childs Eyes won $500 worth of equipment for the school.
Senior Stella Ju and sophomore Meghan Fahy’s piece about sanitation entitled Keep ’em Clean won second place in the PSA category.
Seniors Megan Joyce and Bonnie MacLeod won the first place award in the High School Community/School Story with their piece Junior Kicks Her Way into NCHS, a story about varsity football kicker, Junior Brianna Valente.
The Morning Announcements team of seniors Kelly Balkun, Carolyn Shea, and Molly Stayman, who go live on NCTV every Friday morning, won third place in the News category.
