The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) recently announced the winners of the You Are Here Teen Video Challenge 2011. The Teen Video Challenge is a national competition for teens to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program. Winning videos were selected at the state level to be recognized as an official You Are Here Teen Video Challenge winner for 2011.
This video competition represents a new approach to involve teens in promoting summer reading and public libraries with a focus on the CSLP 2011 slogan, You Are Here. Twenty states participated in the challenge for this inaugural year and each selected one winning video to be named an official CSLP You Are Here Teen Video Challenge winner for 2011.
Official CSLP You Are Here Teen Video Challenge winners were named from the following states: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Washington.
To view this year's winning South Carolina video, visit http://youtu.be/szcdTRZLIIw and to view all winning videos, visit the CSLP's website at http://www.cslpreads.org/winners.html. These winning videos can be used by all teens and all public libraries to promote summer reading nationwide.
The winning videos exemplify the diversity of our country and of the teens that created them. Whether produced by an individual teen, groups of teens, a teen library club, or a teen school group, all exhibit creativity and exemplify quality work on the part of the industrious teen film makers. Many videos use humor or literary references to communicate the You Are Here idea. Others use more introspective and informative approaches, incorporating inspirational quotes and original music compositions.
Videos were submitted from libraries in communities of 900 people to libraries from larger metropolitan areas. In addition to promoting reading and the You Are Here slogan, it is clear from all these videos that teens value their public libraries.
For their hard work and creativity, each winner for this year's competition will receive a monetary award of $250 and the associated public library will receive $100. The awards can be used as each winner sees fit. Several have already decided to put all the funds towards the improvement of their public library.
