OLSH podcaster wins award
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Agamjot Kaur, from Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College at Enfield, has won first place in the 2024 Young Voices Awards conducted by Australian Catholics magazine and sponsored by Australian Catholic University.
The Year 8 student won the Intermediate Digital category for her entry titled ‘The Life of the Special Market: more than just a place’. The judges said they were impressed by the high quality production, storytelling and implied argument about the value of community.
Agamjot is a member of the OLSH Podsquad, where students apply their learning and skills to new opportunities and contexts. She has also completed training in podcast production through the Arch D Radio and Podcasting.
Sonia Venour, assistant principal – Leading Learning & Innovation, encouraged members of the Podsquad to enter the Young Voices Awards which had the theme this year of ‘Do good, be good, spread good news’.
Sonia said Agamjot created an engaging, well-edited podcast capturing the importance of the market as a place that brings people together.
“We are all gifted with our most powerful weapon – our voice. We just need to discover how to use it as our superpower so that when we speak, people will listen,” she said.
Agamjot said collaborating and working with others in her previous podcasts helped her to learn from others.
“It is a different experience working with your friends or peers on something that you really enjoy, it makes the podcast even more amazing and fun,” she said.
“Collaborating with others has helped me gain confidence and skills to then create a podcast on my own. It was a great experience in which helped me with becoming better with making podcasts.”
She said thinking about the topic, creating the script, designing the artwork and editing was all part of podcasting. But her favourite part is “when I have finished creating my script and am sitting in front of the microphone, ready to press the record button”.
“It is an indescribable feeling of expressing and passionately discussing a topic which is important and enjoyable for me,” she said.
“I would undoubtedly encourage others who have even the smallest amount of interest in podcasting to go for it and try it out. Podcasting is a fantastic way to express your unique self.”
Link to Agam’s winning entry:
Podcast Awards.mp4.mp4
Link to OLSH PodSquad on Spotify:
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