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Video creation contests is usually a enjoyable strategy to get college students eager about educational subjects after which produce movies to reveal their understanding of these subjects. This fall I’ve written weblog posts that includes three totally different video contests for college kids. Beneath is a abstract of all three.

Financial Schooling Video Contest

The Council for Economics Schooling is internet hosting a scholar video contest to advertise college students’ consciousness of how economics is part of their every day lives.

The competition is open to college students and lecturers in the USA from kindergarten by twelfth grade. To take part, college students and lecturers should create quick movies (lower than 60 seconds) that reply the query “How is the economic system a part of my every day life?” There are three divisions within the contest. These are Ok-4, 5-8 and 9-12. Lecturers and college students who produce the profitable movies will obtain prizes within the type of American Categorical reward playing cards.

Except for the time restrict, plainly movies will be made in any model, so long as they handle the query “how is the economic system a part of my every day life?” Lecturers could make a number of entries on behalf of their college students. The total contest guidelines will be learn right here (the hyperlink opens a PDF). The submission deadline is October 19.

artistic storm 2022

Artistic Storm 2022 is the title of the most recent Subsequent Vista for Studying video contest. Like earlier Subsequent Vista contests, this one is open to college students and lecturers. There’s a class for student-produced movies, a class for teacher-produced movies, and a class for movies created by the collaborative efforts of lecturers and college students. No matter class, all movies should train a lesson in 90 seconds or much less. The lesson will be about nearly any idea that an individual would be taught in elementary, center, or highschool.

Entries for the Subsequent Vista Artistic Storm Video Contest should be obtained by December sixteenth. There’s a small bonus for many who submit their entries earlier than November 18. Contest winners obtain Amazon reward playing cards and the pleasure of displaying their movies to a bigger viewers. Full contest guidelines and directions will be learn right here.

C-SPAN StudentCam

Annually, C-SPAN hosts the StudentCam video contest for center and highschool college students throughout the USA. This yr’s model of the competition was introduced yesterday. The theme of this yr’s contest is “Should you have been a newly elected member of Congress, what could be your first precedence and why?”

The StudentCam contest is open to college students in grades six by twelve. There’s a class for center faculty (grades 6-8) and highschool (grades 9-12). College students might submit particular person papers or work in groups of as much as three members. All movies should be between 5 and 6 minutes in size. Embedding C-SPAN footage in movies is required.

The StudentCam contest is open to college students from the USA. Contest deadline is January 20, 2023. All movies should embody C-SPAN footage. This yr greater than $100,000 in prizes shall be awarded. The total contest guidelines will be discovered right here and the prize checklist will be discovered right here. There are prizes for each college students and lecturers.

Instruments to create movies

Should you’re on the lookout for concepts on the way you and your college students can produce movies for these contests, check out my not too long ago up to date nice checklist of instruments for video initiatives within the classroom.