Seeing My World Through a Safer Lens Video Contest – $500 – Over 18 yo – Due July 31, 2012

Posted on 6:46 am in Cash Contests, July 2012, Over 18 by Lynnie

In commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (Injury Center), we are hosting this video contest to answer the question, “What does Injury and Violence Prevention Look Like in My Community?”
The “Seeing My World through a Safer Lens” video contest asks injury and violence professionals, students, and the general public to create a short video that shows injury and violence prevention in their neighborhood, community, state, or region.
You can pick any of the following topic areas to show what injury and violence prevention looks like in your own community:

Motor Vehicle Safety
• Child Passenger Safety
• Seat Belts
• Teen Drivers
• Graduated Driver Licensing
• Impaired Driving
• Distracted Driving
• Pedestrian Safety
• Motorcycle Safety

Home and Recreational Safety
• Falls – Older Adults
• Children – Playground Injuries
• Poisoning
• Dog Bites
• Fires
• Water-Related Injuries

Violence Prevention
• Child Maltreatment
• Elder Abuse
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Sexual Violence
• Suicide
• Youth Violence

Traumatic Brain Injury
• Concussion and TBI
• Concussion in Sports

Requirements

Here’s how you enter:
• Sign up for a Challenge.gov account at the top of this page
• Become a follower of the Seeing My World through a Safer Lens Video Contest
• Review the rules and guidelines of this Challenge (Found under the Rules tab)
• Registered Contestant should submit video that is 90 seconds or less, and use one or more of the injury and violence topics to share messages on injury and violence prevention in your community
• All submissions must be in English
• Be sure to provide
o Title of Video
o Injury and Violence Prevention Topic
o Your Entry Category (Injury and Violence Professional, Student, or General Public)
o A link to your video on YouTube
Individuals or teams can choose one video category to submit a video: (1) Student View, (2) Community View, (3) Injury and Violence Professional View. Participants or teams may submit multiple videos — but each video can only be nominated and awarded in one (1) category
Competition Submission Period is from May 1 – July 31, 2012. Any late submissions will not be eligible for competition.
Videos must relate to one or more of CDC Injury Center’s key topic areas: Violence Prevention, Injury Response, Traumatic Brain Injury, Motor Vehicle Safety, or Home and Recreational Safety, and include information from the injury and violence topic areas, found in the About and Rules sections.

Eligibility

• shall be at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry; (Note: “Team members” do not include people whose only contribution is appearing in the video. Minors can appear in the video, as long as the necessary consent forms are provided.);
• shall be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States; and
• may not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting within the scope of their employment

Judging Criteria

Winners of the video contest will be determined by the following criteria and scored according to the correlating percentage.
• Creativity – 30%
• Use of Injury and Violence Prevention Topic – 30%
• Communication of the Positive Injury or Violence Message – 20%
• Length of Video – 10%
• Video and Audio Quality – 10%
An expert panel will judge the submissions on the identified criteria. A winner will be selected each category. All judging will take place between August 1- August 31, 2012.