Back when I was in high school, I was active in the Interact Club, which is a terrific service organization for kids that works under the umbrella of Rotary International.
So I was really happy to hear that E’s own middle school was starting its first Interact group this year, headed up by one of my favorite teachers of all time, Laurie Coburn. E immediately wanted to participate in the new club, and he has really enjoyed being part of Interact so far.
And now, guess what Laurie’s first-year, start-up group has done? Well, the video they produced on the topic of how kids can help eradicate polio worldwide just won Rotary’s international Change 4 Change video competition, competing against schools from the U.S. and 10 other countries!
Yahoo!
To me, the really neat thing about this video is that the kids truly did it themselves, including shooting and editing it in iMovie, creating artwork, scoring it, and narrating it. And speaking of narrating, the proud mama in me requires that I let y’all know that if you watch the video, you will hear two different narrators – a boy in the first half and a girl in the second half. The boy is my boy, and his grandfather Hank Allison would be so proud, because he clearly inherited Hank’s broadcast news chops 
Anyway, huge congrats to Episcopal School of Knoxville teachers Laurie Coburn and Susan Lancaster, and to the crew of awesome middle schoolers who have won this big award, and who are bringing awareness to such an important cause.
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