Awards

Join Taylor's Media Communication program, and you're likely to have professional awards on your resume by graduation. During the 2010-2011 school year, media students earned 40 national awards for their work. That list of awards included a Cine Golden Eagle, a Telly, several Aurora Awards, Summit Creative Awards, awards from the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters, the Indiana Collegiate Press Association and the American Scholastic Press Association. Last year a Taylor senior also made it to the Blue Ribbon Finalist level in the National Student Emmy Awards (an unbelievable achievement) and the finalist level in the Disney ImagiNations competition. In addition, Taylor films screened at multiple film festivals (see below).

The year before, students won 19 professional awards for film/video/audio/radio including two Tellys, while writing/journalism students won 20 awards including "Best Collegiate Newspaper" from the American Scholastic Press. That's an 39 awards in one school year.

Taylor's media communication program competes in both student and professional competitions, putting student work up against the best in the business.

Taylor recognitions include:

  • Heartland Film Festival's Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Award
  • CINE Golden Eagle Award
  • Telly Award
  • National Film Festival for Talented Youth
  • American Scholastic Association Newspaper Review
  • Aegis Award
  • Gold Aurora Award
  • Summit Creative Award (9 since 2005)
  • Indiana Collegiate Press Association Awards
  • Videographer Award
  • MarCom Award
  • Communicator Audio awards
  • 1st place Broadcast Education Association's screenwriting competition - short film category
  • Broadcast Education Association Audio competition
  • Broadcast Education Association Faculty competition - Best in Show
  • Association of Christian Collegiate Media Awards
  • Baptist Press Excellence in Journalism Award
  • Audience Choice Award, Harvest Moon Film Festival
  • Film screening at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
  • Film screening at the Feel Good Film Festival, Hollywood

See MoreTaylor student films have been accepted for screening at multiple festivals in the past three years, including the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, the Windrider Forum (Colorado), the Lake Michigan Film Competition, the Feel Good Film Festival in Hollywood, the Bahamas International Film Festival and the Indianapolis International Film Festival. Taylor films also won Audience Choice and Best Short in two recent festivals. In fall 2009 Taylor graduate Greg Wilson's film Grande Drip won Audience Choice short film at the Heartland Film Festival. Taylor alumnus Angie Alvarez produced the $100,000 winning film in the 2009 Doorpost Film Competition. And in winter 2009, Taylor graduate Michelle Steffes' film won the grand jury prize for best short film at the Sundance Film Festival.