Earth Day Video Contest Winner from Ball State University

Ball State Senior Jagjeet Singh Chahal a $1,000 scholarship from Miles Electric Vehicles in an Earth Day Video Contest. What’s more, the California-based company gave an $18,000 electric car (top speed of 25 miles per hours) to Ball State University.

“In the architecture program they are pushing us that in every design you have to have some kind of a sustainable feature,” said Chahal. For example just in a design using passive, solar system instead of using artificial lighting.

Here’s the video made by Chahal on Youtube. Title: No Gas Required

And here’s another video entry on gas fueled cars vs electric and hybrid cars made by Michelle Mann that I liked pretty much.

Anyway, Ball State University’s Natural Resources Club has been preparing for a year for today’s Earth Day event, “No Student left inside.” According to NewsLinkIndiana, students took part in geocaching, a game where you use a GPS device with a location off the web to find hidden items. Besides, there was a solar powered fan operator, and students had to figure out how to connect the wires in order to get the fans to work. Anything interactive and green and fun is doing good for Earth Day. :)

Check out more video contests in an easy to use detailed calendar.

Florida Video Contest: St. Johns Riverkeeper

Florida launched a video contest in order to protect St Johns River, and several high school students participated in the contest in the hope of sending out the green message and to win the grand prize of the contest: $1,000. I think this video contest was a truly good example of a, involving kids b, being preventive about how kids will be thinking of their own water resources c, answering an existing environmental problem

The hope is that the video contest would bring students in on water issues, including the controversy that surrounds tapping the river to alleviate the potential water shortage, he said. “Kids are really not included. They don’t have a seat at the table yet. Kids have as much, or more, to lose,” he said. Orth said the videos were not to include conservation tips — that has been done. Instead, Riverkeeper wanted a “compelling message” about why water conservation is necessary. According to the Riverkeeper Web site, each resident along the St. Johns waterway uses as much as 150 gallons of water daily, about 50 gallons more per day than the national per-person average. The organization wants lawmakers to look at other means before tapping the St. Johns River to solve the water crisis. (from Orlando Sentinel )

Here’s a video of Florida St Johns river, the St. Johns-Econlockhatchee Mosaic, one of seven critical natural habitats in Central Florida that need to be preserved for future generations. (2006

Check out more video contests in the USA and worldwide.

Earth Day Viral Video Contest 2008

Help to figure out our energy future. What is best for citizens and the environment of Maryland? “The video submissions will be shown the evening of Earth Day, April 22 at St. Mary’s College following a presentation by Arjun Makhijani, author of “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free; A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy.”

content: answer the question What is best for citizens and the environment of Maryland? in max 3 minutes
deadline April 17 2008
prize: $500
further info: http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org

IBM Internal Video Contest as Internal Training

Last time I wrote about SAS internal video contest, and this time it’s another major corporate internal video competition – for IBMers.

The topic of the video contest is how green IBM employees are, what they do to live a more eco-friendly life.

In an effort to inspire IBMers to learn how to shoot, edit and publish audio and video, and in an effort to get them using our internal Media Library (for publishing, tracking, subscribing etc), our team has launched a few media contests over the years.  Nothing like an opportunity to create fun content mixed with the promise of cool prizes to get people worked up and participating. These contests work here at IBM, and accomplish all of the above while also getting employees thinking about the particular issues buried in the themes of these seemingly innocent games.

via GFaulkner