Paynter Students Create Charming 2-Hour Weather Delay Video

BALDWIN, PA - Two Paynter Elementary School students have displayed considerable technological chops by creating a video heralding what all students typically enjoy in the winter: a two-hour weather delay.

In the charming video short, fifth-graders Ava Faust and Kaylee Leicht explain why the delays occur, refer to superintendent Randal Lutz as “the big man in charge” and also mention WPXI-TV chief meteorologist Stephen Cropper.

The project had its origins in the fall when the Baldwin-Whitehall School District received a story maker grant from the Grable Foundation. The money enables students to contribute animation to an upcoming animated “Wizard of Oz” movie.

Baldwin-Whitehall students are working with three other Pittsburgh-area districts, as well as student teams in New York and Washington, to design backgrounds, voice characters, sing, create sound effects and pupet the movie’s animated characters.

You can watch the weather delay video by clicking the link.

Image via Baldwin-Whitehall School District.

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