<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">HI all, this is the information about a youth film competition I was mentioning at the last MOVCA business meeting. In checking it out more- I discovered that you can SEE this year's student submissions and VOTE until April 3. </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Check out this years submissions:</span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial; color: blue;"><a href="http://www.planet911.org/voting" class="">http://www.planet911.org/voting</a> </span><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">There are two age-group categories: 11-16yrs. and 17-22. They encourage use of all media- music, poetry, film, etc. </span><b class="" style="font-family: Arial;">this year’s challenge topic is “How do you see the effect of climate change impacting your home, school, community or the world at large?” </b></p><div class="">If there is a way we can share this and get youth and others to view and participate in the voting- it would give them LOTS of interaction and a chance to see what others are doing to communicate about climate change. they may also get ideas about what they could do to create their own video, MOVCA is having a video PSA contest again this and this might inspire some of our local youth to participate.… IT’s interesting to see how they present the submissions, too.. THREE more days to see these.. and VOTE. It might be good to share with Ecohawks, the teachers who participated last year, our MOVCA educators and whoever you think might be interested. See what you think. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">CHECK them out! and SHARE . Not sure if the submissions will still be there to view after April 3. we’ll have to see. Lots of ideas of what they do with youth, too. Feel free to forward this email to others. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cindy Taylor</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS. This is what I’ve written preliminariy for the MOVCA minutes ( I’m the secretary who moves very slowly!) .. but don’t want to wait until I complete the minutes and many of you may not be members and might be interested. there are other links in this info below. </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Cindy thought MOVCA might get ideas on youth engagement from another youth film competition offered by Earth Day International Film and media, a Texas non-profit corporation “EarthxFilm”. Their films are only allowed to be 45 seconds in length and <b class="">this year’s challenge topic is “How do you see the effect of climate change impacting your home, school, community or the world at large?” </b> To find out more and links to numerous educational programs/resources see <span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="https://earthx.org/" class="">https://earthx.org</a></span> FYI: <a href="http://earthx.org/" class="">EarthX.org</a> is “an international, nonprofit environmental forum whose purpose is to educate and inspire people to action towards a more sustainable future. We assemble and connect citizens, educators, students, businesses, nonprofits, and global leaders to explore sustainable solutions for today’s most pressing challenges.” See competition info: <span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><a href="http://www.planet911.org/" class="">http://www.planet911.org</a> </span>All submissions are posted on line and the<span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span>general public is asked to view and vote on the films (until April 3, 2019) Check out this years submissions:<span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"> </span><span class="" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.planet911.org/voting" class="">http://www.planet911.org/voting</a> </span>There are two age-group categories: 11-16yrs. and 17-22. </span></p></body></html>