Senior Sam Streubing relaxes back in his chair joking with his fellow classmates trying to keep his racing mind busy as the awards are being called out.  He waits anxiously as they come up on his category.  After they announced that he had won second and third for separate films he got knuckles and high fives all around the table.

Spring Creek Arts Festival is held Oct. 24th- 26th.  This festival gives students from Kindergarten through college a chance to enter submissions into four different categories.

Broadcast film, production, photography, live performance, and art are the main categories in the festival.  Many students from Har-ber’s T.V. program have entered submissions into the festival.

The festival will be held at The Jones Center in downtown Springdale.  It’s being sponsored by such organizations as 40/29 News and Clear Energy.  T.V. teacher Travis Sherman submitted work from certain students into the festival to be critiqued by a panel of judges.

The festival began Oct. 24 with an opening ceremony in the gym of The Jones Center.

The festival events contain on-site competitions such as the 180-minute video competition where teams will receive a prompt and from 5:00 to 8:00 film a short video and present it to the judges.

They are then judged and awarded at the competition.

Students from Har-ber were excited to attend the Spring Creek Arts Festival and have their submissions judged in hopes to win.

“I’m ready to dress up, look good, and win,” said Junior Andrew Lisle.

Streubing won two awards, one for second place in action sports along with his partner senior Brandon Buccheri, and the other was third place for an experimental film, also with Buccheri and senior Shawn Young.

“I was really ecstatic when they called my name!  I really wasn’t expecting to place in both videos so when they called my name twice I couldn’t believe it,” said Streubing.

This was a good learning experience for students that just want to film in high school, but even more for ones who plan to carry on with it into college like Streubing.

“My plan is to get a degree in marketing and use that to work for a professional sport franchise and be their video coordinator,” said Streubing.

Students came out of this festival with new knowledge and confidence under their belts.