Win for Ian

Fifty thousand dollars and the Shaw Rocket Prize for best children’s TV program went to Being Ian and Studio B Productions on May 3, voted in by a jury of almost 400 grade school students. The Vancouver animation house is donating the prize money to the B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation and the SickKids Foundation in Toronto. ‘We want to share our good fortune with these great organizations,’ said Studio B partner Blair Peters. The prize is funded by the Shaw Rocket Fund, which invested $8.5 million in Canadian children’s programming in 2005.