Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Local teen wins international video contest

Grade 9 Cornerstone Christian School student wins $10,000 dream computer setup

Ryland Wiberg (right), a Grade 9 student at
 Cornerstone Christian School, stands with
 his father, Jess, the day after winning the
 international video contest, UltraWide
 Festival 2015, with his LG UltraWide Monitor.
He will fly to Vancouver to build his dream
computer setup with a budget of $10,000.
Submitted photo

By Lisa Goudy

Tuesday started out as an ordinary morning for 14-year-old Ryland Wiberg. He woke up and wandered over to his computer to check his email. What he saw made his day.

Wiberg, a Grade 9 student at Cornerstone Christian School, had an email in his inbox from the global UltraWide Festival 2015 contest informing him that he was one of three grand prize winners of a dream computer setup with a budget of $10,000.


"I tried to keep myself as cool as possible, but I kind of ended up just freaking out everywhere," said Wiberg. "It was a pretty good way to start the day."

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