Hi-Point Journeys named a 2010 Webby Award Honoree

BELLEFONTAINE – Ohio Hi-Point Career Center’s Hi-Point Journeys website (hipointjourneys.com) was selected as an Official Honoree in the 2010 Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet.
    “The Official Honoree distinction is awarded to the top 15% of all work entered that exhibits remarkable achievement. With nearly 10,000 entries received from all 50 states and over 60 countries, this is an outstanding accomplishment for you and your team,” said David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of The Webby Awards for The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, in the official e-mail notification sent to Oxiem Marketing Technology, the agency that worked with Ohio Hi-Point Career Center on the project and designed and developed the social media-driven micro-site.
    Ohio Hi-Point Career Center’s Hi-Point Journeys site was awarded Official Honoree designation with 11 other institutions in the School/University category.  Other Official Honorees included the University of Southern California, Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), Savannah College of Art and Design, Colorado Technical University and John Hopkins University.  Ohio Hi-Point is one of only two high schools internationally to receive the honor.  The other is Wayland High School in Massachusetts.
    “I was excited to see news that our Hi-Point Journeys campaign was named as an Official Honoree in the School/University category for The 14th Annual Webby Awards,” said Shane Haggerty, marketing and communications director at Hi-Point.
    “This is such a great honor for the work Oxiem did for Ohio Hi-Point Career Center in helping us launch one of the first full-scale social media campaigns in Ohio public education.  The site Oxiem designed is certainly worthy of this honor, and I am most excited of the awareness this continues to bring to our Hi-Point Journeys campaign, the great things our students do here at Ohio Hi-Point and to the great opportunities career-technical education presents to all students in the state of Ohio.”
    The Webby Awards were established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, and are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.
    Hi-Point Journeys, launched last September, empowers 13 Ohio Hi-Point Career Center students to document their “journeys” by utilizing photos, video filmed with FlipCams and through blogging. Social media channels are then utilized to share their work. The site can be visited at hipointjourneys.com.