The news keeps getting more exciting for the Southwest Florida students in the From the Heart Teen Fashion Festival on February 9th: Comcast Cable will be airing the students’ video….
promoting the charity event in the weeks beforehand.
Preview the teens’ Public Service Announce (PSA) by clicking on the link or on the photo below.
From the Heart Teen Fashion Festival 2013 PSA
The PSA features teen leaders and student volunteers from around Collier County inviting the public to their From the Heart Teen Fashion Festival on February 9, 2013. The event features models, talent acts, a silent auction and raffle prizes. The keynote speaker is Craig Bouchard, Chairman of the Board and CEO of Shale-Inland. A special section will showcase younger elementary school models, too.
Shown here is a screen shot of the teens’ PSA promoting their upcoming From the Heart Teen Fashion Festival, February 9, 2013. The PSA will be aired by Comcast on cable TV. Event co-chair and K is for Kids spokesperson Patrick Clawson, a student at Gulf Coast High School, is shown with pictures from last year’s inaugural charity event, the Head to Toe Teen Fashion Show held in December 2011. The show was such a success that K is for Kids moved the show to become its signature event in February during its Bring a Book, Bring a Friend for Children’s Literacy Month. Pictured at left are the co-chairs who created the event as a fun way for kids to earn their community service hours needed for high school and to boost their resumes for college and career, Erin Clawson (left) and Ali Martin, then seniors at Gulf Coast High School. At top right are four of Barron Collier High’s cheerleaders who performed for the show and at bottom right is Justin Williams, a Palmetto Ridge graduate-Edison State College freshman with George Hiller, a senior at Barron Collier High.
K is for Kids teen leaders and spokespersons have been planning the event for months. holding photo shoots, producing PSAs and creating the PR campaign. More than 50 models and talent acts have begun rehearsals representing high schools from all around Collier and Lee Counties. College students have gotten in on the act, too, as as interns, spokespersons and consultants to the younger students, and are from a wide range of universities: Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU), Florida State Univeristy (FSU), University of Central Florida (UCF), and even as far away as Missouri University of Science and Technology (MST)!
Presented by Barron Collier High School and K is for Kids Foundation in association with Collier County Public Schools, a second PSA is being shown at area high schools. Students may serve earn community service hours for high school and service learning hours for college, and may boost their resumes by serving in leadership role
The students’ charity event is a county wide community project promoting literacy and leadership. Health Management Associates has signed up to be the headline sponsor.
Subtitled a “Bring a Book, Bring a Friend Fun’raiser” the charity show will help to raise funds and collect books for children in need. Proceeds will benefit K is for Kids’ Rising Readers program for Collier County students with a portion going to Barron Collier High’s Helping Hands for Prom program.
Much appreciation goes to Barron Collier High School for hosting the teens second fashion show and inviting students from all around southwest Florida to participate!
The last frame seen in the PSA being aired by Comcast. Pictures of some of the students from around southwest Florida who are making the From the Heart Teen Fashion Festival such a success. At top, left to right: Garrett Edwards and Matthew Leity, co-chairs of the Sport Committee, Gulf Coast High School; Marina Moussa, event co-chair, Florida Gulf Coast University; Nicholas Nolan, emcee, model and technical consultant, Caitlin Vaughan, event photographer with two other students from Barron Collier High School; at bottom, Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology Multimedia students who produced the PSA. Agustin Huambachano, video editor, is fourth from left with event PR Team from Lorenzo Walker shown at far right, Miriam Romero, Alondra Toribio, Ninfa Antunez, and Alexandra Almora.
A big round of applause goes to Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology’s Multimedia Department students and their teacher Richard Ponton for producing the teen PSA; with special recognition going to students Agustin Huambachano, video editor; and Rene Pastir, graphic designer and multimedia consultant for the event.
Special thanks to this year’s event co-chairs Jessica Cederquist, Barron Collier High, Patrick Clawson, Gulf Coast High, and Marina Moussa, Florida Gulf Coast University; Ali Martin, UCF and Erin Clawson, MST, event consultants and the fashion show’s creators; John Maloney, K is for Kids spokesperson and business management/communications intern, FGCU; Brigitte Papica, event planning and communications intern, FGCU; Melissa Cederquist, PR intern, FSU; event photographer Caitlin Vaughan, Barron Collier High; graphic design, Rene Pastir, Lorenzo Walker Institute of Technology, event multimedia consultant; video editor, Agustin Huambachano, LWIT; our PR Team from LWIT and Lorenzo Walker Technical High School, Alondra Toribio, Alexandra Almora, Miriam Romero, and Nini Antunzes; Danielle Verduchi, Florida Gulf Coast University, singer; and all the students at LWIT who helped create and produce the videos!Click here to “Like” us on Facebook www.facebook.com/kisforkids and be sure to follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/kisforkids!