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Education student wins YouTube video contest

FROM IDS REPORTS

Megan Van Pelt’s career in education is off to a quick start.

Van Pelt, a sophomore who will enter the IU School of Education this fall, produced a video profiling her positive experiences in teaching.

Her video won the “YouTube Video Sensation Contest,” as selected by the Indiana Student Education Association and the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

“It really just came from the heart,” Van Pelt said in a press release. “I want to be a teacher, and I just want to spread my passion of teaching.”

Van Pelt, who is working to become a second-grade teacher, said her enthusiasm for teaching started when she was young.

“When I was little, I would make my sister play school with me in the basement,” she said.

The contest selected five videos to display in celebration of the teaching profession. Van Pelt’s video was chosen for its theme of “Why I Choose to Teach.”

The entry merited Van Pelt an iPad to further her teaching career, but she said she made the video to articulate her thoughts on why teaching is an important profession for young people to consider.

“I know that video was supposed to be encouraging kids to be teachers, so I figured making a storybook would be a good way to do that,” she said.

Van Pelt’s video, as well as the other four finalists, will be played on a television screen in the Indiana Statehouse this spring, outside Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz’s office.

The five finalists’ videos can also be seen on the IU School of Education YouTube channel.

— Jeff LaFave

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