The New York Hall of Science is hosting a Master Magician Contest in anticipation of the opening of the blockbuster exhibition Magic: The Science of Illusion on June 28.
Content: create a video of yourself performing your favorite magic trick to illustrate the connection between science and magic. Max 2 min. Deadline of video contest submission: June 9 2008 Eligibility: Adult (15 and older) and Kids (14 and younger) categories (of the USA?) Prize: The title “Master Magician of the New York Hall of Science,” along with a Magic Prize Package including a $50 gift certificate to the Hall, will be awarded to the producer of the top video in both adult (15 and older) and kids (14 and younger) categories. The three top finalists in each category will receive New York Hall of Science t-shirts. Rules of video contest: NYScience.org
Here’s Card Science as an example for the contest by Elizabeth Wade
Make your favorite original mango recipe and record it on a video, then participate in the contest and win a trip to Gotham city.
“Calling all aspiring chefs ages 8-14! Here’s your chance to win a trip to New York City and be among the three finalists in a mango recipe cook-off at The Institute of Culinary Education. Grab your video camera and have a family member or a friend capture your skills in the kitchen as you whip up your favorite original mango recipe. The grand prize winner will get to cook alongside Simply Delicioso star Ingrid Hoffmann on television’s video magazine Health & Home Report.”
Content: submit videos of your mango recipe, creation, cooking art, or something edible mango dish Deadline of video contest submission: from May 7 to July 7 2008 Eligibility: between 8 and 14 years old residents of the USA Prize: There will be One (1) Grand Prize awarded. The Grand Prize consists solely of the opportunity for the Grand Prize Winner to appear on a television broadcast with National Mango Board spokesperson Ingrid Hoffmann; a trip for two to the final judging in New York City, N.Y., including round-trip coach air transportation for two between major airports in the United States nearest to winner’s residence and New York City, N.Y.; There will be Two (2) Runners-Up prizes awarded. Each Runners-Up Prize consists solely of a trip for two to the final judging in New York City, N.Y., including round-trip coach air transportation for two between major airports in the United States nearest to winner’s residence and New York City, N.Y.; Rules of video contest: http://www.mango.org/risingstar/rules.php
Here’s a video on how you can cut a mango professionally:
Unfortunately the winning videos are not on youtube, so instead of embedding them here, you can watch them on PWC TV here
PricewaterhouseCoopers announced today the five winners of its inaugural Leadership Adventure Video Contest, which asked undergraduate business students nationwide to submit two-minute videos answering the question, “What makes a great leader?” Each winner receives a $3,000 scholarship and will be invited to attend the 2008 PwC Leadership Adventure, a program for high-achieving college students interested in accounting or information technology careers.
The MindMashup video contest takes its inspiration from a quote from George Bernard Shaw: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” This year’s Sparky contest is being organized by SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) with additional co-sponsorship by the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries, Penn Libraries (at the University of Pennsylvania), Students for Free Culture, and The Student PIRGs. Details are online at http://www.sparkyawards.org.
“This video contest is an excellent venue to engage students and to explore with them the intricacies of re-using content,” said Anu Vedantham, Director of the Weigle Information Commons at Penn Libraries. “The videos that emanate from this and similar contests provide vibrant examples of student creativity and ownership of new media. At Penn, I have noticed that mashup video contests and video classroom assignments engage students and faculty in new ways with academic material, and that video creation can be effectively integrated in many disciplines including writing, history and language studies. Through involvement with the 2009 Sparky Awards, libraries and new media centers have a valuable opportunity to reach out to faculty and students” said SPARC Executive Director Heather Joseph.
Content: make a short video to illustrate the power of info sharing. Deadline of video contest submission: Nov 30 2008 Eligibility: To be eligible, submissions must be publicly available on the Internet – on a Web site or in a digital repository – and available for use under a Creative Commons License. Prize: The Winner will receive a cash prize of $1,000 along with a Sparky Award statuette. Two Runners Up will each receive $500 plus a personalized award certificate. Rules of video contest: http://www.sparkyawards.org/
Europeskate is organizing a King of Skate (skateboarding)video contest where you are expected to reproduce challenging skate figures and record them on video. The contest is a bit complicated regarding its procedure, I’m afraid (you need to send in videos several times to stay among the potential winners), but it is about skating and if you love it, it might be a good practice and a great challenge to win some money.
Content: “Well, you probably have heard of Alex Mizurov, the German tech skater who won the eS Game Of Skate 2006 finals. Him and some friends will be doing some tricks and it’s up to anybody entering the contest to imitate the tricks the best they can.”
Prize: 2,500 euros
Deadline for registration: May 12 2008
Further info on the skating video contest: EuropeSkate
Here’s a footage of Alex Mizurov:
And another one to get a feel for the flat tricks:
I like the idea of having a video contest centering around remix culture, and the first video that comes to my mind is that of Michael Wesch, anthropology professor who made a video of what the Web looks like today, and became a viral video success reaching about a million viewers.
Now your task is to show what our culture looks like today, I guess. Even though we knew that our culture is basically remix, it is even more visible thanks to the web, and more easily remixable at the same time. Total Recut ( a video remix community website) has managed to get great judges for this touchy and blurry challenge: Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Kembrew McLeod, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica and Mark Hosler Content: make a video answering the question ‘What is Remix Culture?’ You can you use any footage you can find, including Public Domain and Creative Commons work, max. 3 minutes – min 30 seconds long. Don’t forget you “must remix previously published video footage” and can use your own too.
Prizes: laptop computer loaded with video editing and conversion software, a digital camcorder, a digital media player, as well as Special Edition Total Recut T-Shirts, books, DVDs and CDs.
Deadline: June 1 2008
Eligibility: Contest is open to natural persons of any age, from any country.
And here’s the video made by Michael Wesch, anthropology professor: The Machine Is Us/ing Us This is a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007.
Hurry up, Gillette Phenom video contest will soon end, submission of video entries is until May 20 2008.
Content of video contest: Create a video of 90 seconds or less showcasing your skill in a ball sport. Your video may include the biggies—basketball, baseball, soccer, football, golf, tennis—the lesser obvious ones— volleyball, water polo, cricket, rugby, croquet—and even the fooseballs and Super Balls of the world. Eligibility for video contest: You must be a 14-years male citizen living in the United States to qualify. Grand prize of video contest: $30,000! Deadline: May 20 2008 Further info: http://youtube.com/gillettephenom
or check out the official video advertising the contest:
See more ongoing video contest with great themes and prizes in the Video Contest Calendar.
The title of the Step Forward video contest was inspired by Kofi Annan ’61 when he said, “We all have the power to make choices. We can choose to be silent and turn away. Or we can Step Forward and take action.
content: show what Macalester alumni enjoy, and what’s unique about Macalester to potential donors, e.g. the quality of work Macalester students can produce, as well as many different perspectives about student life today – max 5 min prize: up to $5,000 deadline: Sept. 15 2008 aim: “the college hopes the capital campaign will draw in $150 million dollars over the next few years. The money will go toward financial aid, faculty salaries, the new Fine Arts center, Institute for Global Citizenship and the Macalester Athletic Recreation Center.” (via the MacWeekly)
Step Forward Events Coordinator Karlyn Wegmann
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
In cooperation with the Wright Museum of World War II History (Wolfeboro, NH), Big Y Foods (Springfield, MA), Market Basket (Tewksbury, MA), the Manchester City Library (Manchester, NH), and other New England businesses, nonprofits and community groups, the U.S. Navy Leadership Challenge invites you to use your creative video force to produce a short film about your “Hometown Hero.”
eligibility: New England high school students between 15 and 18
prize: two-day, all-expenses-paid trip to a Navy installation on the East Coast in June 2008.
Video Contests that Rock 