Awards & Recognition
2010 OSROA 7th Annual Conference
2010 Presidents Award- Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police
2010 Sponsor of the Year Award- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
SRO Mike Davis - Lifetime Achievement Award
Principal Christopher Conroy - Administrator of the Year Award
Deputy Sharon Centner - SRO of the Year Award
Mr. Marty Wicks - Teacher of the Year Award
Pictured from left are Sean Yates, Carolyn Coniam, Bridget Elias, Det. Brian Hurd and Garrett McEntire.
Five Avon Lake High School students put together two videos on what a school resource officer (SRO) does and landed the school’s SRO program $300.
Carolyn Coniam, Patricia Hickey, Garrett McEntire, Yailin Soto and Sean Yates, all students in Bridget Elias’ TV production class, submitted two videos, each under 2 minutes, set up as public service announcements.
The spots, which have been running on Avon Lake Cable Television’s school station, Channel 98, demonstrate how the school’s SRO, Det. Brian Hurd, has a positive impact on the school, community and district. Yates' spot included an interview with Hurd. The second spot was a video with a voiceover.
The contest was sponsored by the Ohio School Resource Officers Association (OSROA). On July 26, Officer Todd Bennett of the Pepper Pike Police Department and Northeast Ohio representative of OSROA, presented the students with certificates, mentioning that it was the first time the OSROA had two first-place winners, and they both happened to be from Avon Lake.
Hurd complemented the certificates with movie gift cards.
Bennett said approximately 40 schools in the Northeast Ohio district, which includes Lorain and Ashtabula counties and Youngstown, have SROs.
Coniam, Hickey, McEntire and Soto were responsible for one of the PSAs while Yates completed a second clip alone. The students spent about two weeks on each announcement, interviewing Hurd and taping him as an SRO.
