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Fresh Focus: Sex-Ed Digital Video Contest
12/14/2007
Was sex education at your school a total drag or did you love it? If you had your choice, would you want a personal robot tutor or an online game you could play with other teens to learn about sex and its consequences? We need to hear it from you!
The Fresh Focus Video Contest was launched in September by a dynamic group of progressive organizations and quickly spread across the blogosphere. It’s time to get together with your friends and be creative!
There are two themes to choose from:
- Theme 1: Share your sex education experience so far. Show us how and why it sucked or rocked.
- Theme 2: Redesign how sex education could be delivered. Imagine that anything is possible.
Make a video with either theme and submit it through DoGooderTV by January 7th, 2007. First place wins a $3500 scholarship to the educational institution of your choice (or cash equivalent); second place wins $1000 cash; and third prize is your choice of a Nikon P5000, a Nintendo Wii or an iPhone. Content and creative vision will be weighed more heavily than production quality. Voting begins on January 4, 2008. Film makers must be between the ages of 15-30. See the official rules for more details.
Video finalists will be featured at the Sex::Tech Conference: Focus on Youth, an Inaugural STD/HIV Prevention Conference about youth and technology, January 22 - 23, 2008 in San Francisco, CA at SFSU's Institute for Next Generation Internet. Conference information is available at http://www.sxtechconference.org/. There is a reduced registration fee if you are 25 or younger, or a full-time student of any age.
Here’s a taste of the first few submissions:
- Stick Love Vol. 1 is an animation about loneliness and commonality
- Heard It profiles youth in Oakland, CA talking about where they learned about sex (and it's not from school!)
- Unanswered Questions addresses what it would be like if everybody felt safe asking questions
- My Sex Education illustrates how easily concepts about sex can be confusing
So visit the official contest page today for all the details and official rules and let everyone know what’s on your mind!
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