2016 Accolades

GNPS/TV Wins National Awards

Great Neck Public Schools Television (GNPS/TV) is the proud recipient of five national awards through the Alliance for Community Media (ACM) 2016 Hometown Media Awards.

The Hometown Media Awards is a national awards program that recognizes outstanding community media and local cable programs that are distributed on Public, Educational, and Governmental access cable television channels. Nearly one thousand entries are submitted each year.

GNPS/TV was awarded the top prize in Overall Excellence in Educational Access, the first of four times it has done so (2018, 2020, 2024).

GNPS/TV received the award for Best Educational Activity for South Middle School’s Dancing Classrooms Culminating Event, held each year to recognise the accomplishments of the 8th grade class in the school’s collaboration with Dancing Classrooms of Long Island.

“The Pioneers,” is a short film about Pi and a group of four quirky Math educators who teach it. The film, by GNPS/TV staff and students, in collaboration with South Middle School’s Math Department, won Best Original Drama/Comedy.

“The First 200 Years” is a documentary of the Great Neck Public Schools, commissioned in 2014 for the district’s bicentennial. It is the winner of two awards, Best Educational Profile and Best Documentary Biography.

You may view all three award-winning videos below.