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The challenge of the contest is to inform and educate a positive message regarding farmers and their commitment to providing the world with high-quality, yet affordable, food, fuel and livestock feed.  Video creativity and originality is a must along with factual information.  Messaging facts along with additional sources of information are provided within this literature.

Any high school FFA member may submit an entry created by an individual or by a team of two or more members from any Kentucky FFA Chapter.

President Quint Pottinger has produced a sample video to help get your creativity flowing.  View Quint’s video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SBSYtivMVA.  Remember, this is only a sample.  Participants are strongly encouraged to produce creative and entertaining commercial-like videos.

Judging
Round 1
• The top 10 entries will be decided by a panel of agricultural media professionals.  The top ten videos will be posted at www.kysoy.org.
• All decisions of the judges will be final.
• Judges reserve the right to disqualify any production.
• Top Ten will be announced on October 20, 2008.
• Judging will be based on creativity, messaging and factual information.

Round 2
• From the Top 10 - First, Second and Third Place will be determined based on popularity on You Tube.
• On November 21, 2008 the videos with the most views will be declared the winners.
• Have everyone you know view the clips as many times as they would like to increase popularity.

Guidelines & Rules
• Productions must be between 30 seconds and 1 minute in length.
• Each production must show a positive farm message and must use at least one fact from the provided fact sheet.
• Entry in the contest will be deemed consent for the use of the production, name and photograph of the entrant by the Kentucky Soybean Board for advertising, promotion and trade purposes.

Prizes
1st Place - $3,000.00 to the student and $3,000.00 to his/her chapter.
2nd Place - $2,000.00 to the student and $2,000.00 to his/her chapter.
3rd Place - $1,000.00 to the student and $1,000.00 to his/her chapter.
4th-10th Place - $100.00 to the student

Videos should be uploaded to www.youtube.com where they can be viewed for consideration.  The video URL must then be emailed to jvincent@kysoy.org to officially be entered in the contest.  All videos must be submitted by October 3, 2008.

The email must also contain the following information:

Video title:
Video URL:
Video description and search keywords:
Video Created by: (You may list as many names along with email addresses and phone numbers as applies.  The first name listed serves as the team captain.  In the case that a team is a winner the team captain will be responsible for distributing the prize money among the team.)
FFA Chapter Name:
Chapter Advisor:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:

To enter this contest click here.

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