Twins Kaultiz won the "Youth Prize Distance"!

 


According with the prcenter.de site, Tom and Bill Kaulitz won the study DistancE-Learning 2009 in the category "Youth Prize Distance"!   

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(prcenter.de) Tom and Bill Kaulitz will receive the study DistancE-Learning 2009 in the category "Youth Prize distance" 

When young stars want to go to school, but can not - then the school level to them, state-recognized distance learning has made it possible that Tom and Bill Kaulitz (both 19) in addition to their meteoric career with the band Tokio Hotel to prepare for their secondary school could. As Magdeburger twins in 2005 were simply too famous to every day by screaming fans the way to break into the classroom and the many events with a regular timetable to coordinate, they looked for an alternative and found it on the Web Bochumer individual school. What then followed, called for much self-discipline, because the two were not a gift. They learned about two years between concerts and studio recordings, in the tour bus and in hotel rooms. The teaching material they got sent home. In March 2008 they presented their tests - with exams under the supervision and oral exams as any normal student - with flying colors from both managed dengleichen grade point average of 1.8. 

Tom and Bill Kaulitz, because of their exemplary performance by an independent jury of the Association Forum DistancE learning with the study DistancE-Learning 2009 in the category "Youth Prize Distance" award. In her still young career, the guys from Tokio Hotel has won many awards - but one academic award is a whole new experience. Unfortunately, in the absence of the two, which is currently on promotional tour for her new album, is the study DistancE-Learning on 27 April 2009 in the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) in Berlin, Parliamentary State Secretary Andreas Storm this year the winners and laureates over. 

Two years distance learning at the individual school Web - that meant for Tom and Bill actually learning, wherever they were currently underway, and an exchange with their distance via e-mail, telephone or video conferencing, to times when "normal" teachers have long Feierabend have: The concept of the individual school Web provides for a one-to-one service, based on the current living conditions of young people received the exception. Her Fernschülern include more young artists such as the Tokio Hotel twins. 

"We are very pleased with Bill and Tom Kaulitz, that they won the Youth Prize distance," says Sarah Lichtenberger, Director of the individual school Web. "They really deserve this award, and finally they were during their completion dates under heavy pressure: on the one hand, the great respect for the trials to which they have prepared very disciplined, and professional ambition, their fans not to disappoint. "Together with her sister and second school director, Jennifer Krautscheid, it will be the prize in Berlin and stands to take the two musicians will soon hand over personally. 

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