The AASCA Media Festival is a technology-driven festival to promote project-based learning, technology integration, and creativity, and to recognize exemplary student work. The festival is a two-part event. The first part is a showcase/competition of student media projects, such as movies, podcasts, presentations, and web sites that have been created as part of regular class work. These will be submitted electronically and evaluated by a panel of judges. The second part of the festival will look more like a traditional AASCA event, with schools sending teams to the host school to participate in an on-site event. The event will be a two-day movie making experience that involves a theme and rubric that will not be disclosed to the participants until their arrival at the event. The activity will include students being transported to various locations that provide opportunities for filming the movie. The closing event will be an Oscar-style awards banquet where movies will be shown and awards presented.