Lake Park Audubon Schools

LPA’s “Raider Nation News” has WON TWO CRYSTAL PILLAR AWARDS from the Upper Midwest Emmy Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), which includes the five state region of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Nominated in ten categories, LPA won in the prestigious categories of Live Sports and Graphics and Animation. With this current recognition, LPA has tallied ten Crystal Pillars awards since 2014. All recipients of the Crystal Pillar Awards will automatically be entered into a national competition with high school recipients from other NATAS chapters. National Award nominees will be announced in the Fall of 2018 at a live interactive webcast from The Newseum in Washington D.C.

A list of award-winning entries may be found at: midwestemmys.org. The Awards ceremony was held April 13, 2018. In Minneapolis at the Crowne Plaza Aire.

Students involved in the awards include: Jacob Woody, Savanah Schindler, MacKenzie Ehlers, Elise Whitehead, Parker Weyer, Erin Grabinger, Jayden Walthers, Will James, Blake Polejewski, Madelaine Anderson, Jenna Braseth, Claudia DeBlieck, Courtney Anderson, Alec Korby, Elsa Larson, Jacob Anderson, Garret Frank, Marcus Dickelman-Stassen, Justin How, Rileigh Leininger, Kendra Leendertsen, Kevin Bjorgan “Raider Nation News” is produced by Lake Park Audubon’s Mass Communications classes advised by Laureen Svobodny, Michael Bashford, and Kathryn Anderson.