Stoney Creek High School Alumnus Nominated for College TV Award

Connor Dean of Rochester, MI, has been nominated for the prestigious Television Academy Foundation’s 41st College Television Awards. The College Television Awards recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges and universities nationwide. Winners in the competition will be announced by television stars on March 26.

Dean is a Stoney Creek High School alumnus and a recent graduate of Brigham Young University.

Dean has been nominated, along with 3 of his classmates, in the ‘Commercials, PSA or Promos’ category for producing “Decisions", a spec newspaper commercial, while attending Brigham Young University in Utah.

“We make decisions based on what we believe truth is,” said Dean. “Paradoxically, in today’s world, truth is harder to find, even though there are more news stations, search engines, and resources than ever before. We won’t discover truth if we rely solely on our own experiences to perceive the world, because people everywhere have extremely different circumstances and realities that we cannot comprehend. The line at the end of the commercial, “your decisions write our stories,” is written the way it is because we want to encourage everyone to seek truth - real truth. Instead of being passive about topics that might make us uncomfortable, such as illegal immigration, we can make a conscious effort to develop empathy for others.”

“I am grateful and humbled to be nominated for a College Television Award,” said Dean. “This opportunity to network with other creators in the industry is a dream come true.”

The 41st College Television Awards will be streamed globally at TelevisionAcademy.com/CTA on Saturday, March 26, at 6:00 PM PDT, 9:00 PM EDT.

The virtual awards show will feature celebrity presenters including Dove Cameron (Schmigadoon!), Rick Glassman (As We See It), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Sam Heughan (Outlander), Jordan L. Jones (Bel-Air), Rose McIver (Ghosts), Sue Ann Pien (As We See It), Danielle Pinnock (Ghosts), Logan Shroyer (This Is Us) and Hannah Zeile (This Is Us). Albert Lawrence, correspondent for CBS’ The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation will host.

A total of 54 students have been nominated in 6 categories for the 2022 awards selected from 185 entries submitted from 58 colleges nationwide.

Designed to emulate the Emmy Awards, student entries are judged by Television Academy members. Criteria for the College Television Awards reflect industry standards of excellence, imagination, and innovation.

The awards ceremony will be held in conjunction with the Foundation’s College Television Summit, a three-day, educational event featuring panel discussions with media-industry leaders. The Summit is made available virtually and free of charge to college media arts students nationwide March 23-25.