2025 Emmy Winner - Dare To Grow PSA - 150 Years of Excellence at Vanderbilt University

How do you distill 150 years of excellence into ninety seconds? For Vanderbilt University's Dare to Grow campaign — the largest fundraising initiative in school history at $3.2 billion, launched alongside the university's sesquicentennial — the answer was a single park bench. Carried from a research lab to the stage at Blair School of Music, from a business school classroom to center court at Memorial Gymnasium, the bench became a quiet through-line connecting every discipline and generation of people who've chosen to dare. The film served as the campaign's flagship piece and earned a Regional Emmy Award in the Public Service Announcement category.