Hackensack High wins grant from GLEE contest
Thursday December 15, 2011, 7:24 PM
BY STEPHANIE AKIN
STAFF WRITER
The Record
HACKENSACK – Hackensack High School students won $10,000 for their music program with a video showing them singing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” juxtaposed against images of aging school equipment, according to an announcement Thursday.
Pictures of a piano missing a key, a snare drum with a hole in it and a worn-looking electric guitar were interspersed with text explaining the music program’s budget woes: including $8 million in total cuts to the school budget over the last two years and the estimated $26,000 cost to fix two Steinway pianos.
“Talented students; aging equipment,” one screen read.
The video was one of 73 winning submissions in the nationwide GLEE Give a Note Campaign, a contest sponsored by 20th Century Fox Television and named after the popular television program.
The students won 11,305 votes from viewers on the contest website, placing them in a pool of finalists from which they were selected for the second place prize. They were one of four New Jersey schools to place in the contest, which awarded grants of $10,000 to $50,000.