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Teacher, Students Receive Awards for Educational Multimedia Projects TEACHERS AND STUDENTS FROM THROUGHOUT California, received cash awards and other prizes for their innovative use of media in creating educational video and computer-generated presentations for use in the classroom. Award winners at the 31st annual "Student Media and Multimedia Festival" were honored for creating educational presentations, ranging from thematic videos and computer presentations on subjects such as over population, teen smoking and rain forest destruction to more light-hearted presentations about the solar system and sportsmanship. Award winners included LAUSD teacher Carol Askin, who with some of her fourth-grade students at Elizabeth Learning Center created a multimedia project titled "My Principal is an Alien," a fantasy about what happens when students discover their principal is an extra terrestrial. The Festival, now in its 31st year, encourages and rewards teachers who use video, computer and multimedia technology to support instruction and worthwhile educational goals. "We try to encourage the use of technology in the classroom," said Hall Davidson, director of educational television services at KOCE television, one of the Festival's sponsors. "Each year the entries get better and better." Other Festival sponsors include Oracle, the Nichols Foundation and the California School Library Association and Computer Using Educators. Grand prize winners received $1,000. Other award winners received a plaque and certificate at recent awards ceremony.