{"id":3244,"date":"2014-10-24T17:50:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/furman-takes-first-place-in-two-video-contests\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:45:03","slug":"furman-takes-first-place-in-two-video-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-takes-first-place-in-two-video-contests\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman takes first place in two video contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14985\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Filmmaking1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14985\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14985 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Filmmaking1-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University has won first place in two separate sustainability video competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Furman took first prize in a contest sponsored by Green Living Project, a film production and distribution company. The GLP Student Film Project, part of the education program at GLP, awarded Furman top honors in the college division for its \u201cGardening for Good\u201d video by students in Dr. Weston Dripps\u2019 First Year Seminar, and who also took part in his ECOS (Environmental Community of Students) Engaged Living class last year. The students are sophomores Josie Newton, Tim Sharp and Melanie Brown. Their winning film features a local NGO, Gardening for Good, whose executive director is a Furman alum, Reece Lyerly &#8217;11. The video can be viewed on the GLP website found <i><a href=\"http:\/\/glpfilms.com\/education\/student-film-project\/\">here<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In a contest sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), the ACS Sustainability Film Competition, Furman took first place for the video, \u201cSustain Furman.\u201d Freshmen in Dr. Dripps\u2019 current ECOS Engaged Living Environmental Science class crafted the video which documents the numerous ways Furman is working toward its goal of achieving campus carbon neutrality by 2026. It features a series of interviews with the students, faculty, and staff behind Furman\u2019s sustainability efforts. To view the video, visit this <i><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/1eXRDmuaxFI?list=PLwuab1ZTDczStvDUUIJaRZjjabuGQyQdp\">link<\/a><\/i> on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Taking second place in the ACS competition was the video, &#8220;Sustainability in the ACS: Furman University,&#8221; which was submitted by Furman freshman Haena Chon. The judges gave Chon\u2019s video high marks for its beautiful and thought-provoking imagery of campus sustainability efforts. To view Chon\u2019s video, visit this <i><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/nkbGUIRcM8A?list=PLwuab1ZTDczStvDUUIJaRZjjabuGQyQdp\">link<\/a> <\/i>on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the videos, contact Weston Dripps, Chair, Earth and Environmental Sciences department at (864) 294-3392, or <a href=\"mailto:weston.dripps@furman.edu\">weston.dripps@furman.edu<\/a>. Or contact Furman\u2019s News and Information Office at (864) 294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in Dr. Wes Dripps&#8217; ECOS (Environmental Community of Students) Engaged Living classes snag first place in two sustainability video contests. The first contest was sponsored by Green Living Project, the second by the Associated Colleges of the South. Sweetening the deal was the runner up spot for the\u00a0ACS competition\u2013yet another video by a Furman student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":13930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,34,3,17,37,35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-admission","category-alumni","category-centers-and-institutes","category-earth-environmental-and-sustainability-sciences","category-parent-news","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}