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. :)
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Downtown Oklahoma City Inc. wants to tap into your talent, so now you a chance to show how Oklahoma downtown progress is going on and to win a $1,500 cash award in a video contest.
content: show developments in Downtown Oklahoma City in spirit of the Oklahoma Creativity Project (increased residential housing, new hotels and mixed-use developments, expanded events, office space, entertainment and development of the Oklahoma River) – in max 2 min prizes: $1,500 cash award, a $1,000 transferable scholarship to Oklahoma City University, participation and recognition at the Dean A. McGee Awards and featured placement on the Downtown OKC Web site for one year deadline: May 2 further information: 235-3500.
The music video contest launched by the tech-savvy Radiohead band, “Radiohead Aniboom Video Contest” is slowly closing the voting session, so hurry up to check out the site and give your vote. Deadline for this chapter is April 26!
So far these videos have been picked by the crowds in the contest, while these Radiohead video entries are the ones that generated the biggest buzz and most discussion on the site.
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
The video contest of the National Federation of Independent Business will lead up to NFIB’s National Small Business Summit in 2008, which will be held in Washington, D.C., June 8-11.
content: answer the question “Why does small business work for America?” in less than 30 seconds in order to boost awareness of issues facing small businesses, as rising food and fuel costs squeeze profits for businesses and Washington DC faces a looming recession and a potential regulatory overhaul of the financial services industry.
prize: $5,000 and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington for the summit.
Here’s a video made by NFIB: “Jim Hendersen, from Berkeley, MO, discusses rising health care costs, the affect on small business, and what should be done.”
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
Faster Skier has a short video contest for ski lovers. The deadline is almost here, so get speedy.
content: make a ski video of max 15 min that captures the 2007/2008 season and enter it in the FasterSkier “Packed to Powder and Everything in Between” Video Contest. Anything goes as long is it has to do with XC ski culture and/or sport and happened in the 2007-2008 season.
prizes: First Place: A T73 Iron, Second Place: A LF 60 Gram wax set 6, 7 and 8, Third Place: A TO188b Steel Brush
“Nearly all of the entries last year were from young people, most of then under 25,” Frank Muir, the commission’s president and chief executive officer told The Packer.com. “They’re the ones who know how to make videos.” (via What’s Next blog)
content: any fun sketch, short vid story featuring Idaho potatoes
eligibility: US residents over 18, and there’s a special contest simultaneously for over 14 US resident high school students
prize: any entry gets an mp3 player, grand prize $3,000
Here’s a previous video contestant on da real potetoes from Idaho, with lyrics
Lyrics:
I love potatoes and how bout you?
French Fries Potato Bread Yeah even in my stew
Breakfast it’s hash browns Lunchtime it’s tots
Mashed potatoes and gravy for dinner why not?
You can slice em n dice em boil an broil
or throw it a fire wrapped up in tin foil
make chips for dip with cheese it’s au gratin
spuds from this state won’t be forgotten.
I-D-A-H-O Po-tay-tow
I-D-A-H-O Po-tay-tow
You say po-tay-tow I say po-tah-to
don’t matter still love em why? cuz I got to
get a whole bag of idaho taters
have one right now and save one for laters
power went out? no need to fret cuz
I use my potato to power this light bulb.
I-D-A-H-O Po-tay-tow
I-D-A-H-O Po-tay-tow
How do you spell potato? I-D-A-H-O
How do you spell potato? I-D-A-H-O
How do you spell potato? I-D-A-H-O
Best Potatoes in the world are Idaho Grown!
Cho-les-ter-ol and Fat Free
Healthy choice for your body High in Vitamin C
People all love em from Boise to Malad
having picnics in the park with Potato Salad
Yall feel me you know what I’m talking about
So Throw your hands in the air I wanna hear you shout.
Sick Profits Video Contest gives you a chance to criticize the current problems of the health insurance industry. The sponsor is Northwest Federation of Community Organizations.
content: making fun at corporate health insurance, bring about changes and fight for a guaranteed health care system for everyone in the US. Parody is key.
Some themes:
Health insurance companies care more about their profits than about people
Health insurance companies make their money by saying no to people who are applying for insurance and stamping DENIED! on requests for health care
We need to investigate health insurance companies to find out how they weasel out of paying for health care and where their money really goes
Health insurance companies split us apart by age, health status, etc. rather than supporting a health care system that works for everyone in our communities
prize: $1,000 eligibility: over 18-year-old US residents
As Gale is celebrating National Library Week (April 13-19, 2008), it announced a YouTube video contest for ‘songwriters’ who are willing to perform love songs to their favorite book or author. “The contest encourages booklovers to literally sing the praises of their favorite books and authors during this year’s Books & Authors contest.” (PRweb)
content: sing your love you song to your favorite books (OK, not every book may inspire such a love song…) prize: $5,000 Grand Prize, more precisely: The video with the most votes will be awarded the Grand Prize of $5,000. The songwriter(s)/performer(s) will be awarded $2,500; the other $2,500 will go to the library of the winner’s choice. So win half the prize for your favorite library! deadline: May 31 2008 eligibility: for over 13 year old residents further info and video contest rules: on Gale
Here’s a nice video of the Librareo Lounge from the official contest group:
Check out further online video contests in a quick overview in this user-friendly Video Contest Calendar.
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