Do Your Part: National Youth Video Contest

It’s time again for the Do Your Part Canada-wide youth sustainability video contest. With the theme of environmental sustainability, kids, here’s your task: Get your video cameras out and get creative with your message of keeping planet earth healthy.

Do Your Part invites Canadian youth between the ages of 13 and 24 to submit a 30- to 90-second video or animation clip to show how youth could do their part to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle during and well beyond the 2010 Winter Games. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) partnered with the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), the Government of Canada and Panasonic Corporation to launch this video contest.

Sport and Environment

Contest applicants are encouraged to involve sport in the content of their submission that demonstrates a variety of ways in which people could live more sustainably through recycling, conserving energy or using sustainable transportation.

Winners of the video contest will be announced in Vancouver on February 13, 2009. The grand prize winner will receive a Panasonic VIERA high-definition plasma television as well as an invitation to the 2010 UNEP TUNZA youth conference in Japan. TUNZA means “to treat with care or affection” in Swahili. Panasonic will also provide limited edition Vancouver 2010 Panasonic LUMIX digital cameras for the three runners-up. Winning entries might also be shown to spectator audiences during the 2010 Winter Games, or used in other promotional materials by VANOC, UNEP, the Government of Canada and Panasonic.

Submitting a Video

Eligible applicants can upload their video submissions to the web or a video-sharing site of their choice. Once uploaded, they are to send the link with their name, age and contact details to sustainability@vancouver2010.com.

Videos must be submitted by Sunday, December 6, 2009 to be eligible to win. Submissions by youth under the age of 19 require parental permission. Full contest details, including a list of contest rules and regulations, can be found at vancouver2010.com/edu.

Related Links:

Winners of the 2008 “U-reduce/U-produce” Video Contest

Watch the Sport and Environment vancovuer2010.com video podcast

VANOC and Sustainability