How is the natural world around you changing in Minnesota? Bell Museum of Natural History is celebrating the 150th birthday of Minnesota with a long series of events and projects (Minnesota Minute), including a video contest!
content: Share your ideas for protecting your environment, a special natural place in Minnesota and preserving our natural world. Or just tell us why a natural area means so much to you. (30 seconds is great, under 5 minutes required)
eligibility: ?
deadline: Beginning on Earth Day (April 22, 2008) weekly prizes will be awarded through the end of May.
This music video contest is primarily targeting teens as it’s based on the new teen novel, Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway (Razorbill Books, on sale April 10) published by Penguin Young Readers Group.
Content: In the contest, readers are encouraged to take the lyrics to the song “Audrey, Wait” and make music videos of their versions of the song.
California high school student Audrey Cuttler dumps self-involved Evan, the lead singer of a little band called The Do-Gooders. Evan writes, “Audrey, Wait!,” a break-up song that’s so good it rockets up the billboard charts. And Audrey is suddenly famous!
Now rabid fans are invading her school. People is running articles about her arm-warmers. The lead singer of the Lolitas wants her as his muse. (And the Internet is documenting her every move!) Audrey can’t hang out with her best friend or get with her new crush without being mobbed by fans and paparazzi.
Take a wild ride with Audrey as she makes headlines, has outrageous amounts of fun, confronts her ex on MTV, and gets the chance to show the world who she really is.
This video contest is pretty serious about asking you ‘What’s wrong with America?” and is trying to seek ways to turn around bad trends.
Here’s the video to urge you for participation in the contest:
To quote from the organizers:
Our goal is to start a new kind of national conversation through this video contest. This contest is not about winning iPods™ or flat-screen TVs, the stakes are much higher. This is about making your voice heard and earning a platform in our national conversation on the future, the upcoming election and beyond.
But there is a cash award too of $2000, and in certain cities $1,000 and more.
I like this video contest and the intended message.
