
Summer Sphere XO Student Design Challenge
Clip: Season 4 Episode 1 | 3m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet one of the student winners of this summer’s Sphere-sized student design challenge.
Meet CCSD student Simone Enriquez who had her design featured on the world’s largest LED this summer as part of the Sphere XO Student Design Challenge.
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Summer Sphere XO Student Design Challenge
Clip: Season 4 Episode 1 | 3m 5sVideo has Closed Captions
Meet CCSD student Simone Enriquez who had her design featured on the world’s largest LED this summer as part of the Sphere XO Student Design Challenge.
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More than 100,000 students were invited to take part in the XO Student Design Challenge for a chance to have their designs appear on the exosphere on the Las Vegas Strip, the world's largest LED.
After both public voting and a panel that included professional artists, the winners were selected and announced during a special ceremony.
Six Clark County School District students--two elementary school, two middle school students, and two high school students--were all selected as the big winners.
Now, I caught up with one of these artists.
Check it out.
-Your art is going to be on that Sphere because you have been selected as one of the winners.
-Simone Enriquez's face and her proud dad's sweet reaction says it all.
(Simone Enriquez) So every day since the voting started, I looked at the voting and asked all my family and friends to vote.
-And, boy, did those votes pay off.
Simone's fabulous design, a winner.
-Oh, I did the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign.
It was, it was a really iconic part of Las Vegas.
I wanted to put that in there.
-It was on the Fourth of July, the first anniversary of when the Sphere first lit up the Vegas skyline, that the art created by the XO Student Design Challenge winners was revealed for all to see.
The big announcement made national headlines, the students even featured on CBS Morning.
-It's amazing.
It's so cool.
It's a dream come true.
-If you're wondering how the designs, created by these talented artists... (teacher) Again, taking a two-dimensional design and making it three dimensional.
-...ended up on the world's largest LED... -We just had to, like, sketch out our design.
It was-- it was hard, too, because we had to keep erasing and drawing to get it perfect.
-Well, once picture perfect, it was up to Sphere digital artists to convert the student designs into exosphere animations.
(designer) And then we wrapped it to the Sphere.
-From where I was sitting, the Sphere was very big.
So I had to, like, look all the way up.
But it was really, it was really nice and exciting to see it.
-As for Simone, who is now a 6th grader, she plans on continuing with her impressive art career and credits her former art teacher at McCaw STEAM Academy with inspiring her and encouraging her class to take part in this first of its kind competition.
-Miss Hansen, she usually likes to bring us all in for like these competitive, these competitive stuff.
I've always been competitive, especially in art.
So obviously, I wanted to do it.
It was really exciting to do it, too.
-Big congratulations to Simone and all of these amazing artists.
As for the grand prize, elementary and middle school students received a $10,000 donation for their school's art program.
And the high school students each received a $10,000 scholarship.
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