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Kansas National Parks Host "I, Too, Am America!" Contest
An outgrowth of the Ken Burns film The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, all five national parks in Kansas sponsored the “I, Too, Am America” student contest. Both the contest and series are supported with grants from the National Park Foundation and Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund.
The contest was open to all seventh and eighth grade students in Kansas. From over 300 entries, a final group of five winners was selected from schools around the state representing student projects in documentary film making, poetry, personal narratives, and essays.
Each winner will receive a special tour of one of the five Kansas National Parks. KTWU, a partnering PBS station in Topeka, is accompanying each student on his or her park visit to document the experience and produce an episode of series Sunflower Journeys which will air alongside the premiere of The National Parks: America's Best Idea in September 2009.
In partnership with KTWU and the Kansas State Department of Education, digital video cameras will be donated to each winner’s school for the students use in telling their story on Kansas PBS stations, and other future school projects.
The five national park in Kansas are Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Fort Larned National Historic Site near Larned, Fort Scott National Historic Site in Fort Scott, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in the Flint Hills and Nicodemus National Historic Site in Nicodemus.
