Paul Franz's "Haiti's Lost Children" won the Online News Association Best Student Online Video Award, tied with "What Now Argentina?" by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Argentina.

Paul Franz was one of five winners of the 2010 Pulitzer Center YouTube Project Report contest and produced "Haiti's Lost Children," a documentary that focuses on education in a post-earthquake Haiti. The documentary is a part of the Pulitzer Center project Rebuilding Haiti's Education from the Ground Up.