Orofino student wins Idaho Public
Television
READING RAINBOW writing-illustrating competition
Orofino student Hans Sween captured second place for the third grade level in the Idaho Public Television/KUID regional READING RAINBOW Young Writers and Illustrators Awards contest.
A celebration at Hastings Books, Music and Video
in Lewiston, on May 17 (Saturday), at 2:00 p.m. will showcase Sween
and other regional winners. They will read their stories aloud;
receive certificates signed by LeVar Burton, host of the READING
RAINBOW series; and receive donated prizes.
Sween's story is titled "Hans the Firefighter."
All contestants wrote stories illustrated with at least five
pictures and submitted the entries to the IdahoPTV station in their
region.
Statewide, 887 students submitted entries from 87
Idaho communities to IdahoPTV regional stations -- KUID/Moscow, KISU/Pocatello
and KAID/Boise -- for the 13th Annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers
and Illustrators contest. In North Idaho, 345 students submitted
stories and illustrations for judging.
First-place stories from each region of Idaho
will be available by the end of May for viewing on the IdahoPTV Web
site (idahoptv.org).
The annual competition is for students in
kindergarten through third grade. Entries are judged on originality,
creative expression, storytelling and integration of text and
pictures.
READING RAINBOW, a television series that
encourages children to read on their own, airs weekdays on IdahoPTV
at 2:30/1:30 p.m. MT/PT. Idaho Public Television airs 11 hours of
children's programming each weekday and five and a half hours each
Sunday morning -- more than 60 hours each week.