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On August 5, Al Majid Model School, the winning school of KWN Contest in the United Arab Emirates this year, visited its fellow KWN participant, Sumiyoshi Secondary School Attached to Kobe University. The students from the UAE introduced traditional UAE folk costume and Arabic writing, while the Japanese students introduced Japanese calligraphy, soap bubbles, and Japanese sweets. It was an excellent chance for children from both schools to learn about each other's cultures.

Following this, on August 26 four elementary school students from Wanquan Primary School in Beijing, China, visited Seka Elementary school in Hyogo Prefecture for a cultural exchange meeting. Wanquan Primary School has participated in the KWN Program since 2006, while Seka Elementary School has been part of it since 2008. After watching and giving comments on each other's KWN entry video works for last year, the Chinese children danced a traditional Chinese dance and the Japanese children performed the Yosakoi Dance. The rhythm and enthusiasm of the Yosakoi Dance brought the students closer together all at once.

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Kid Witness News (KWN) is Panasonic’s global hands-on video education program created to encourage middle and high school students to develop valuable cognitive, communication and organizational skills through the use of video. The unique program provides schools with an array of video equipment and offers participants the opportunity to develop selected interests, abilities and creativity through the production of videos.
The "New Vision Awards" honors the best videos that are submitted from across the US to the Kid Witness News program annually. In 2009, the award for best video went to "12 Twelve" by West Sylvan Middle School of Portland, Oregon.

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Kid Witness News (KWN) is Panasonic’s global hands-on video education program created to encourage middle and high school students to develop valuable cognitive, communication and organizational skills through the use of video. The unique program provides schools with an array of video equipment and offers participants the opportunity to develop selected interests, abilities and creativity through the production of videos.
In Canada, students from 25 schools from across the country were challenged to write, produce and edit a short film to explore topics like communication, the environment, racism and current social issues. In April, budding young Canadian filmmakers were honored at the 18th annual Kid Witness News Awards.

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Kid Witness News (KWN) is Panasonic’s global hands-on video education program created to encourage middle and high school students to develop valuable cognitive, communication and organizational skills through the use of video. The unique program provides schools with an array of video equipment and offers participants the opportunity to develop selected interests, abilities and creativity through the production of videos.
In Singapore, the themes usually cover Culture, Environment, Sports, etc. Videos produced by the students are submitted to the annual awards contest, with prizes awarded in over ten different categories, including news, documentaries, dramas, etc.

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Kid Witness News (KWN) is Panasonic’s global hands-on video education program created to encourage middle and high school students to develop valuable cognitive, communication and organizational skills through the use of video. The unique program provides schools with an array of video equipment and offers participants the opportunity to develop selected interests, abilities and creativity through the production of videos.
"Assumption College Sriracha" was the winner in Thailand and also won the KWN Regional Contest 2008 in Malaysia, with the video "Buffaloes in the rice field."

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