The Oakwood School Recieves $10,000 In National Video Contest

After 4 weeks of competitive voting, Scotties, a leader in the tissue industry is pleased to announce that winners of the 2014-2015 Trees Rock® video contest. In the 3rd-5th grade category, the winners are the 3rd grade students of Ms. Nikki Grabill’s class from The Oakwood School in Greenville, NC. The school will receive $10,000 to be used towards building a greenhouse on campus where the students will grow their own vegetables.

Today on Earth Day, the whole school enjoyed a ceremonial tree planting, check presentation, live music, zumba dancing, and a lunch catered by The Scullery to celebrate their big win.

“We are a small, independent school, and while we have a supportive community, we knew it was going to take more than just our community to win,” said Grabill. “So we reached out to the rest of the country with a remake of Bruno Mars’ ‘Uptown Funk’ and Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake it Off’. Our videos reached a combined total of over 6,000 views on Facebook and several hundred on YouTube.”

To watch the Oakwood School’s video click here.

All kids who entered the contest were required to create a video up to 3 minutes long on the importance of trees -- to themselves, their school, and their community. Students were encouraged to be as creative as possible in their entries – for example, by creating a poem, a play, a speech, a song, or a dance. After rigorous scrutiny by a panel of judges, entries from around the country were narrowed down to the 10 best in 3rd – 5th grade and the 10 best in 6th-8th grade the categories of most compelling relative to theme, clarity of message, and creativity.

Scotties is passionate about sustainability with their 3-to-1 promise in which for every one tree they use, they plant three in its place. Over the last 50 years, Irving Consumer Products Limited, Scotties’ parent company has planted 900 million trees in North America.