Students earns media awards

[Shaine Mata]

A student has turned two lunch periods worth of work into an animation project that earned
him second place in the Texas Media Awards competition. Sergio Villegas completed the stick
figure animation short while an 8th grader at K. White Junior High School. He is now a 9th
grader at Mission High School.

The Texas Media Awards is sponsored by the Texas Library Association.

Villegas’ project competed in the animation competition for grades 6-8. It is about a minute
long and is based on a musical selection. This was an extra-curricular project completed during
two of his lunch periods at school at K. White.

K. White Junior High 6th grader, Naomi Castillo earned an honorable mention in the digital
photography section of the Texas Media Awards competition.