Southeastern teens get surprise honor

SOUTH CHARLESTON, Ohio (WDTN) - Students file into the auditorium at Southeastern High School Thursday for what seems like just another assembly.

They've seen this movie before. Only this time, someone decided to rewrite the script.

"The trick was how can we coordinate this so they didn't know," says Southeastern teacher Kathy McGrath.

Tyler Gregory and Scott Hannah know a thing or two about plot twists.

The two high school students are budding film makers. Their latest project is taking on bullies.

"It's an epidemic that's spreading all through the United States and we wanted to do something to alleviate the problem," Tyler says.

No one says a word in Scott and Tyler's video, "Don't Give Up Hope" and yet the film speaks volumes using more than 50 signs they made, some student volunteers and a song done by a family friend of Scott's called, "Just Another Day of Bullying and Pain."

The two have shown the video at schools around the area, and also entered it in The Great American No Bull Challenge.

That is how they found themselves standing up on the stage in front of their fellow students at that assembly.

It was a Hollywood ending even they didn't see coming.

The two were told they'd made the final 15 of the No Bull Challenge.

"It was an amazing feeling," Scott says. "I can't even stop shaking still."

The two will now get a trip to San Francisco for the No Bull Challenge's award show on July 21.

If they win they'll get a three episode production deal worth $10,000 and a lot of other great prizes.

But they may have already gotten the best reward, a school with a much less bullying and pain.       

"They've had some people apologize for bullying others," McGrath says.

Adds Scott, "We just wanted to take a stand and step up and make a change and I think we really did make a change."