2011 CTE Month Video Public Service Announcement Contest
ACTE is searching for budding filmmakers and is looking to the CTE community to find them!
What is the goal?
To promote career and technical education by creating a video public service announcement incorporating the 2011 CTE Month logo.
Who can enter?
The contest is open to secondary, postsecondary and adult CTE students in film and video production classes or in other CTE courses. Students may enter as individuals or as a group.
What do I win?
ACTE will announce the winning PSA during its Annual Convention and Career Tech Expo, December 2-4, 2010, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The winning student or team will receive $750 and the school will receive one complimentary copy of Apple's Final Cut Studio 2, a professional video editing suite. The second-place student or team will receive $250 and the school will receive one complimentary copy of Apple’s Final Cut Studio 2. First- and second-place videos will be publicized on the Internet and may air on television. The winning student or team is not required to attend the Convention.
What's required?
- You must incorporate the CTE Month 2011 logo into PSAs (right-click to download a high-resolution PNG version). Contact onlinemedia@acteonline.org if you have any questions or would like to request a different image format.
- You must incorporate the following message into your PSA, presented as text on-screen and/or spoken by talent: “Learn more about career and technical education at www.acteonline.org.”
- You must display ACTE’s Web address on screen: www.acteonline.org.
- Use no other logos or Web addresses in PSAs.
- PSAs must be 29 seconds in length.
- PSAs must be uploaded to the contest hosting site by October 27, 2010. A broadcast-quality hard copy on DVD must be mailed to ACTE headquarters with a postmark date of October 27, 2010, along with required forms (or forms can be faxed to us by that date). Further directions on how to submit will be available here in September 2010.
- You must include all forms with your submission: the PSA information form as well as the copyright assignment and release forms for all participants (see below).
- PSAs can be submitted in standard definition or high definition.
- PSAs must use stereo audio.
- No bars, tone, black or slate required.
- You must obtain copyright permission for any music, images or video used in PSAs unless content is in the public domain.
- Multiple entries are permitted.
Keep reading for details …
How will I upload my video to the contest hosting site?
More information on this process will be available here in September 2010.
What are all these forms?
Along with the broadcast-quality hard copy on DVD, you are required to submit to ACTE a PSA
information form, a copyright assignment form from each student who produced the PSA, and a talent release form from each person appearing in the PSA. Students under 18 must have a parent or guardian’s signature on the release form.
Who will be judging my PSA?
PSAs will be judged by ACTE staff and by a panel of media professionals and representatives from career-technical student organizations (CTSOs).
What’s the fine print?
The CTE Month 2011 logo can be used only for PSA purposes; all other usage is prohibited. ACTE retains the copyright on any submitted material and reserves the right to use the material in any way or format it sees fit. ACTE is not responsible for lost, damaged, incorrectly encoded, incorrectly burned, incorrectly uploaded, mislabeled or misdirected entries. Entries will not be returned and will become the property of ACTE. PSA entries cannot be used for any commercial activity.
Do you have any tips for my PSA?
The winning videos for the 2011 CTE Month Video PSA Contest should strive to:
- Engage and inform about career and technical education (CTE)
- Show that CTE leads to a successful career
- Show the role of CTE in a strong national economy
- Depict a variety of CTE fields (see next section)
- Depict the diversity of students involved in CTE
- Show CTE as relevant to the general public—not focus on one school, one area of CTE, or on ACTE itself (if ACTE is depicted in the PSA, ACTE must only be portrayed as a resource the viewer can use to learn more information about CTE)
- Incorporate the 2011 CTE Month logo, the ACTE Web site address and the message about ACTE defined above (see the “What’s required?” section); and
- Be technically well-made and suitable for broadcast on the Internet and possibly TV.
How can I learn more about CTE?
- Learn what CTE is and what kinds of courses it encompasses with ACTE’s career and technical education fact sheet.
- Learn about the effectiveness of CTE in preparing students for further education and careers.
- Learn how investment in CTE yields more money for communities around the country.
- Think about the role of CTE in the economy: CTE students grow up to become highly skilled technicians, medical professionals, IT specialists, businesspeople, engineers and more. The career fields that CTE students prepare for are the career fields that keep our nation growing.
Can educators help with their students' projects?
Educators may advise students, but should not take on a significant role in creating the PSAs.
For more information or questions about submissions, please contact onlinemedia@acteonline.org or call 800-826-9972, ext. 353.
2010 CTE Month Video Public Service Announcement Contest
Last fall, ACTE held its third annual video public service announcement contest for secondary and postsecondary CTE students. This year’s videos were based on the 2010 CTE Month theme CTE: Invest in Your Future and emphasized the importance of career and technical education. ACTE partnered with SchoolTube, a safe, moderated Web site for online video and image sharing that reaches thousands of teachers and students, to host this year’s contest. More than 150 entries were received. A panel of marketing and media professionals judged the final entries.
First place:
The Future Is in Your Hands
Katie Eldredge & Hannah Read
Silsbee High School
Silsbee, Texas
Second place:
Invest in Your Education
Sam Evenson
Kokomo Area Career Center
Kokomo, Indiana
Schools, businesses and organizations can use the PSAs as tools to educate policymakers and their communities about the important role CTE programs play in developing a qualified workforce. You can purchase DVD copies of “The Future is in Your Hands” and “Invest in Your Education” through Shop ACTE
for $5 plus shipping. If you would like a copy on BetaSP tape to
distribute to television stations, please contact Catherine Imperatore
at onlinemedia@acteonline.org.