This year’s contest includes the following general and expert categories:

• Mini Documentary: In-depth program of an event, issue, place, individual or group. (10 minute maximum)
• Public Service Announcement (PSA): A commercial length, informative but concise video about an issue. (30 second maximum, production credit or acknowledgement graphics do not count as part of the 30 second maximum)
• Short: A creative look at an issue using comedy, drama, music or a cultural setting. (5 minute maximum)
• Junior Expert: This category allows students K through Middle school with extensive video production skills to compete in a category that recognizes technical expertise using video. Youth Xchange winners who have won two or more times, students who have worked (for hire) professionally creating video, and/or students participating in or receiving help from other students in an advance video or digital media program must enter this category. (10 minute maximum)
• Expert: This category allows high school and college students with extensive video production skills to compete in a category that recognizes technical expertise using video. Youth Xchange winners who have won two or more times, students who have worked (for hire) professionally creating video, and/or students participating in or receiving help from other students in an advance video or digital media program must enter this category. (10 minute maximum)

In addition to the above five (5) general and expert categories, we are also pleased to have twelve (12) sponsored categories, as follows (click on hyperlinks to view flyers).

• 808 No Vape, sponsored by Hawai'i Public Health Institute and the Coalition for a Tobacco Free Hawaii
• Clean Energy Future, sponsored by Hawaiian Electric
• Creating Peace, sponsored by Rotary Club of Honolulu
• Eat Local, Eat Fresh, sponsored by State of Hawai'i DOH Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division
• Forest Inspired, sponsored by State of Hawaii DLNR Division of Forestry & Wildlife
• Pathways for a Better Life, sponsored by Aloha United Way
• Prepare NOW, sponsored by Hawai'i DOH Office of Public Health Preparedness
• School Breakfast Promotion, sponsored by State of Hawai'i DOE and Hawai'i Appleseed center for Law & Economic Justice
• Speak Up for Justice, sponsored by Hawai'i State Bar Association Civic Education Committee
• Storm Water Hero, sponsored by City & County of Honolulu Department of Facility Maintenance
• The Value of Water, sponsored by Honolulu Board of Water Supply
• Traffic Safety, sponsored by GEICO Hawaii and State of Hawaii DOH EMS & Injury Prevention System Branch

Reminder:  Entries must be uploaded by 11:59 p.m. HST on Friday, February 22, 2019.

Mahalo to our presenting sponsor Sony Hawai’i and event sponsors (First Hawaiian Bank, Na Leo ‘o Hawai’i , HAIS, and others) for making this annual competition possible, and mahalo to Hawai’i’s teachers and administrators for empowering students to speak out on issues that affect them and their respective schools and communities.

For more information about the Youth Xchange Statewide Video Competition and Awards Banquet or to view sponsored category flyers, please visit www.olelo.org/yxc2019.

Mahalo,

'Olelo Community Media

Youth Xchange Program Team

YouthXchange@olelo.org

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