Student Video Contest with $1200 Award from World of 7 Billion Program
Applicant criteria
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
World of 7 Billion is inviting students all over the world to participate in the Student Video Contest. Create a short video – up to 60 seconds – about human population growth that highlights one of the following global challenges: Promoting Environmental Justice, Strengthening Global Health, Re-Imagining Industrial Systems.
Competition Theme:-
We now live in a world of over 7 billion people and demographers expect us to reach 9 billion by mid-century.
Human population growth exacerbates many of the innumerable challenges facing our global society.
Taking on these complex challenges and finding solutions will require understanding, cooperation and creativity.
Create a short video – up to 60 seconds – about human population growth that highlights one of the following global challenges: Promoting Environmental Justice, Strengthening Global Health, Re-Imagining Industrial Systems. All videos must include:
How population growth impacts the issue.
At least one idea for a sustainable solution.
Possible Topics:-
Consider narrowing your focus by concentrating on a subtheme within your topic. Possible subthemes include:
Promoting Environmental Justice – Food deserts, climate migrants, placement of hazardous waste sites, effects of the fossil fuel industry, redlining, mistreatment of indigenous peoples and land, environmental racism.
Strengthening Global Health – Access to health care, pandemics and emergency response, disease spread (zoonotic and vector-borne), maternal health, sanitation, health effects of environmental pollution.
Re-Imagining Industrial Systems – Procurement of raw materials, waste management, brownfields/CAFOs, energy production, production/distribution of consumer goods, occupational health and safety.
Terms and Conditions:-
- All entries must be a digital video.
- Each entry must focus on ONE of following global challenges as it relates to population growth:
- Promoting Environmental Justice
- Strengthening Global Health
- Re-Imagining Industrial Systems
- Students may work together in groups or submit entries as individuals.
- The length of the video should not exceed 60 seconds (one minute), not including the 5 second title screen.
- The judges’ decision is final. Entries will be judged by topic, with winners in each of the three global challenge areas: Sustaining Water Systems, Ensuring Economic Opportunities, Improving Climate Resiliency. Decisions will be made based on the World of 7 Billion Judging Rubric.
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Prizes:-
Challenge: “Promoting Environmental Justice”
High School.
One (1) First Place: $1,200.
One (1) Second Place: $600.
Two (2) Honorable Mentions: $300.
Middle School.
One (1) First Place: $600.
One (1) Runner Up: $300.
Challenge: “Strengthening Global Health”
High School
One (1) First Place: $1,200
One (1) Second Place: $600
Two (2) Honorable Mentions: $300
Middle School
One (1) First Place: $600.
One (1) Runner Up: $300.
Challenge: “Re-Imagining Industrial Systems”
High School.
One (1) First Place: $1,200.
One (1) Second Place: $600.
Two (2) Honorable Mentions: $300.
Middle School.
One (1) First Place: $600.
One (1) Runner Up: $300.
Best in State
50 cash prizes will be awarded to the best video in each state.
Best International by Region
Six cash prizes will be awarded to the best international video by world region (Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North America, South America).
About World of 7 Billion:-
World of 7 Billion is a program of Population Connection and is the only national program with a strong emphasis on curriculum and professional development for educators that focuses on human population issues. Since 1975, the program has developed age-appropriate curricula to complement students’ science and social science instruction about human population trends and their impacts on natural resources, environmental quality and human well-being. The program provides hands-on trainings nationwide that reach 10,000-12,000 educators annually.
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