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INTERPRETIVE MEDIA AWARDS COMPETITION

The Interpretive Media Awards Competition is brought to you by the National Association for Interpretation and its Visual Communications Section to promote excellence in the delivery of natural, cultural, and historical nonpersonal interpretive services. Through the exchange of ideas we increase the level of excellence in our profession.

The Interpretive Media awards are presented each year at the National Interpreters Workshop. For more information, please visit the Web site of NAI's Visual Communications Section.

2005 Interpretive Media Competition Award Recipients

Announced at the 2005 National Interpreters Workshop in Mobile, Alabama

Audio
1. Get Hooked on Art: Mobile Museum of Art Permanent Collection Family Tour
Audio Landscapes by Studio Bard

2. What’s Going On? – California and the Vietnam Era Audio Tour
Acoustiguide

3. Gateway to America: The National Parks of New York Harbor Tour
Antenna Audio

Curriculum
1. Green Eggs & Sand
US Fish & Wildlife Service

2. Investigating Fire Ecology in Ponderosa Pine Forests
Bandelier National Monument, NPS

3. Expedition! Yellowstone! Curriculum
Yellowstone National Park

3. Fire Ecology Curriculum
Kaibab National Forest

Interior Exhibit
1. Five Friends from Japan: Children IN Japan Today
Boston Children’s Museum

2. Cedar River Watershed-Water is Magic exhibits
Seattle Public Utilities, Cedar River Watershed Education Center

3. Arctic Interagency Visitor Center
Bureau of Land Management

3. Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Exhibits
Harpers Ferry Center, NPS

Large Book
1. Sculpted by Ice: Glaciers and the Alaska Landscape
Alaska Natural History Association

2. In the Shadow of Ragged Mountain
Shenandoah National Park Association

3. Rocky Mountain Rustic: Historic Buildings of the Rocky Mountain National Park Area
Rocky Mountain Nature Association and Rocky Mountain National Park

Poster
1. Mountains Majesty: Ecosystems of the Rocky Mountains
Bureau of Land Management

Site Publication
1. Nez Perce National Historical Park Park brochure
Nez Perce National Historic Park

2. Manzanar National Historic Site Official Park Folder
Manzanar National Historic Site

3. Junior Ranger Booklet for Big Cypress National Preserve, Biscayne National Park and Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park

Small Book
1. Manzanar National Historic Site ID Card Booklets vbb
Manzanar National Historic Site

2. National Park Service Rangers Activity Book
Eastern National

3. Ballad of the Wild Bear
Alaska Natural History Association

Trail Guide
1. Forgotten Forests of the Prairies Self-guiding Interpretive Trail
S. Dangerfield, Interpretive Planning

2. America’s Wetland Birding Trail
Fermata, Inc.

3. Living With Land Interpretive Trail—Old Wilpena Station (Flinders Ranges NP, South Australia)
South Australia Department of Environment and Heritage

Video/Film
1. Olympic National Park “Mosaic of Diversity”
National Park Service

2. Remembering Manzanar
Manzanar National Historic Site

3. Traces In Time: The Outdoor Laboratory of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Odyssey Productions, Inc.

Wayside
1. Predator Ridge
ECOS Communications

2. Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center
Split Rock Studios

3. Living With Land Interpretive Trail—Old Wilpena Station (Flinders Ranges NP, South Australia)
South Australia Department of Environment and Heritage

Multi-media
1. Windows into Wonderlands “To Eat or Be Eaten” Electronic Field Trip
National park Service, Yellowstone National Park, Division of Interpretation

2. Recovering Endangered Species…Bringing Them Back—Wild Things 2004 Broadcast and Webcast
National Conservation Training Center-USFWS

3. Sky Watch
Space Telescope Science Institute

3. Wakulla Spring: A Giant Among Us
Fusionspark Media, Inc.

2004 Interpretive Media Competition Award Recipients

Announced at the 2004 National Interpreters Workshop in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Audio Program
1. The Statue of Liberty National Monument & Ellis Island Immigration Museum
National Park Service, Statue of Liberty National Monument, and Antenna Audio

2. Fine Art Museums of San Francisco Permanent Collection Family Tour
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Acoustiguide

3. The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola
The Cleveland Museum of Art and Acoustiguide

Film/Video
1. (tie) “Journey of Tiglax”
Alaska Islands and Ocean Visitor Center

1. (tie) “On the Edge of the Gichigami”
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore and Harpers Ferry Center

3. “Wild Things 2003: Habitat is...Home Sweet Home”
National Conservation Training Center, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Interactive Multimedia
1. Conservation Central
Smithsonian's National Zoo and Brad Larson Media

2. Tijuana River Watershed CD
Digital Contact

3. Petroglyph National Monument Touchscreen Kiosk
Executive Productions

Interior Exhibit
1. Sandstone Visitor Center
National Park Service, New River Gorge National River, Harpers Ferry Center

2. Herbert H. Bateman Educational & Administrative Center
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge

3. Grand-Pre: Heartland of Acadia
Parks Canada

Interpretive Program Curriculum
1. Train the Trainers Manual
Illinois Environmental Education Advancement

Large Book
1. In The Light of the Mountain Moon
Shenandoah National Park Association

Poster
1. Send You Back to Arkansas: Our Own Sweet Sounds II Exhibit
The Old State House Museum and The Freelance Company

Site Publication
1. Junior Explorer
BLM Anasazi Heritage Center & Canyons of the Ancients National Monument

2. (tie) Drawbridge CA:Returning the Tide
Don Edwards, San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge

2. (tie) Wildlife Explorer
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden Education Department

Small Book
1. Nunamiut ABC: A Child's View in the Life in An Alaska Village
Alaska Natural History Association, Ankuvuk Pass School & Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve

Trail Guide
1. Self Guiding Interpretive Trail
Criddle/Vane Homestead Heritage Committee

Wayside Exhibits
1. Chevron Texaco Learning Pathway
jCommunications

2. Sugar Pine Point State Park Lakeside
William Lindemann, Interpretive Specialist, Sierra District, California State Parks

3. The Dino Pit
Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Lab

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