The San Francisco Northern California Regional Student Television Awards for excellence, which promotes best practices to high school students, is intended to be an incentive for the pursuit of excellence in television journalism and focus public attention on outstanding achievements in television produced by high school students. Faculty involvement can only be advisory.
Applicants must be current enrolled as a full-time high school student as of the application deadline. Eligible schools that can participate must be in the coverage area of Northern California, Visalia to the Oregon border; along with Reno, Nevada and the state of Hawaii.
Entries in English will be judged by English-speaking professionals. Entries in Spanish will be judged by Spanish-speaking professionals. Entries in other languages may be entered. Judging of these entries is subject to the availability of qualified judges who speak the language of the entry. We recommend that entrants in languages other than English or Spanish submit an English-language translation of the narration track.
The San Francisco/Northern California Regional Student Television Award for Excellence (an engraved glass pillar) will be presented to the sponsoring high school, after school program, or producing organization. The students involved in the production of the entry will receive certificates. Following the distribution of the awards, duplicate awards (glass pillars) with individual student names will be available at a cost of $100 each, plus tax and shipping.