Safe Kids Worldwide and program sponsor General Motors are joining together for an opportunity for high school students who reside in an area with a local Safe Kids coalition. The Take it From a Teen video challenge is a chance for teens to share their wisdom on safe driving and passenger practices from the first time their parents turned their car seat forward facing. Plus, teens could win $100 or even $1,000!
Instead of hosting our own Driving the Message video contest, we’ve decided to partner with local Safe Kids coalitions to support your video submission efforts.
Teens will create a 60-second video that answers one of the following questions:
- How would you tell your friends to slow down while driving?
- How would you tell your friends to buckle up?
- How would you tell your friends to not text and drive?
- How would you tell your friends to not drive under the influence?
- How would you tell your friends to not drive with too many teens and not enough seat belts in the vehicle?
All you must do is film a video answering one of these questions and submit it by February 1 (see How to Submit below). Each local Safe Kids coalition will choose a local winner who will receive $100. Then, all the winners will be sent to Safe Kids Worldwide, who will convene a panel and choose a grand prize winner to receive $1,000! The national winner will be contacted on March 23, 2018. Also, a professional film crew will travel to the winner’s hometown to professionally recreate the video and then promote the video on Safe Kids national social media channels.
Judging Criteria
Want to know how you’re going to be graded? The Take it From a Teen video challenge submissions will be judged on the following criteria on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the highest and 1 being the lowest. Note: you will be judged primarily on the content and the persuasive messaging, you will not be judged on the quality of your video. The national winner will have their video professionally filmed. It is fine to film on a phone.
Contest Rules & Regulations
- Entry is open to high school students in the United States
- Entry must follow submission guidelines listed below.
- Appropriate language or gestures
- Only showing safe actions, and not dangerous activities
- Appropriate dress
- Team entries are allowed (prizes must be shared)
How to Submit
- Entries must be emailed to [email protected] (Teens in the Driver Seat rep.) AND your local Safe Kids coalition contact, found here. If your city doesn’t have a local coalition, you may still submit your entry to [email protected].
- Email subject line must read, VIDEO CONTEST.
- Email contents must contain:
- School name, school address, city and state,
- Affiliation: Teen in the Driver Seat (please say that you’re affiliated with the Teens in the Driver Seat program in your email)
- Student(s) name, phone number, email address,
- Title of video entry and video file format attached MP4 or MOV
- Should your video file be too large and the email bounce back/not go thru, please contact [email protected] informing her of the issue.
- Emailed entries must be date-stamped no later than January 31, 2018.
See Safe Kids Take It From the Teen video challenge announcement, here.>