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Youth ” I Love My Community” Video News Competition

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The First Youth “I love my Community” Video News Competition

2020 is a very unusual year for our country and for everyone one of us, an economic disaster on top of a health pandemic. Many of us cannot go to work or attend school and over one-quarter of a million of our citizens have lost their lives. During this difficult time, we want to inspire and uplift each other with messages of love and hope, encourage our next generations to tell stories of extraordinary acts of love, and share their love and devotion for our community through video essays.

Ding Ding TV (Silicon Valley Innovation Channel and Voice of Asian Americans) together with BayArea Youth Initiative and community partners are hosting the “I Love our Community” Video News Competition to bring the stories of love and inspiration to our community and simultaneously acknowledge and honor our next-generation creators.

The first 10 entrants will each receive a gift from Ding Ding TV.

Organizer:

Silicon Valley Innovation Channel – Ding Ding TV

BayArea Youth Initiative

Co-Host:

CLUSA,  National Asian American United,  Bilingual Youth TV,  Ethnic Media, APAPA, Galaxy art for children, Able2Shine,  Chunhui Art School, Youth For Change, Rotary Club Cupertino

Committee:

Diana Ding, Chair of Event

Jason Shan, Co-Chair of Event

Joel Wong, Chair of Judge

Sandy Wang, Executive Chair of Event

Liyan Zhao, Co-Executive Chair of Event

Judy Zhu, Chair of Contestants

Joseph Shan, Chair of Contents

Emma Tu, Chair of Promotion

Contest Rules:

  1. Contestants must be under the age of 18.
  2. The “I love my community ” stories must be in the format of news reports or storytelling.
  3. The video format must be mp4. The news report shall be clear and concise and less than one and a half minutes. An essay of 150 words or less must accompany the video.
  4. Please click HERE  to submit the video through your google account, or send all materials to contest@dingdingtv.com includes full name, age, phone number, home address, organization, video title, essay and video.
  5. The deadline for submission is December 26, 2020.
  6. For specific forms of reporting, please refer to the following sample:
Sample 1

Event Introduction by Emma Tu – Youth ” I Love My Community” Video News Competition Press Conference

Sample 2

Bay Area Youth Delivers Clothes to the Homeless

Sample 3

Kindness is Contagious by Shawna Wu

Competition Awards:

One(1) first prize winner, $300
Two(2) Second prize winners, $200 each
Three(3) third prize winners, $100 each
One(1) Viewers’ Choice winner, $100
10 Excellent Awards, Drone each

Honor Awards

All the video contents will be published on Silicon Valley Innovation Channel – Ding Ding TV and promoted to over 100,000 people through media channels.

Judging Criteria:

  1. To encourage maximum participation, twenty (20) semi-finalists will be selected by the audience participants on the DingDingTV website.
  2. The Panel of Judges will select one (1) First Prize Winner ($300), two (2) Second Prize winners ($200 each), and three (3) Third Prize winners ($100 each) from the twenty (20) semi-finalists as selected by audience participation based on the following 10 points system:
    1. Inspirational and Uplifting Contents – 4 points
    2. Storyline – 3 points
    3. Creativity – 2 points
    4. Production/Technical Skills – 1 point
  3. The decisions of the Judges are final.

Judges:

The judges of this competition are diversified community leaders, youth mentors, and media experts.

Joel Wong,  President of NAAUnited (National Asian American United),  Editor In Chief, CLUSA (Civic Leadership USA).  National Governing Board member, APAPA (Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association)

Sandy Close, Founder of Ethnic Media Service, a pioneer in developing youth media
Hung Wei, Cupertino City Council Member, Board Member and past Board President, Fremont Union High Schools Foundation
Praveen Gupta, Mentor of Youth Innovation Program; Lecturer, Lucas College and Graduate School of Business of San Jose State University. Author of several award-winning books.
Orrin Mahoney, Former Mayor of Cupertino, District governor of Rotary Club, Board Member at Santa Clara County Fairgrounds.
Carl Shan, Cofounder of Teenager Coach Program: Orenda, Senior Scientist at LinkedIn
Judging Criteria:
  1. To encourage maximum participation, twenty (20) semi-finalists will be selected by the audience participants on the DingDingTV website.
  2. The Panel of Judges will select one (1) First Prize Winner ($300), two (2) Second Prize winners ($200 each), and three (3) Third Prize winners ($100 each) from the twenty (20) semi-finalists as selected by audience participation based on the following 10 points system:
    1. Inspirational and Uplifting Contents – 4 points
    2. Storyline – 3 points
    3. Creativity – 2 points
    4. Production/Technical Skills – 1 point
  3. The decisions of the Judges are final.
The Youth “I love my community” Award ceremony will be held on 1 / 10 / 2021 at 1:00 pm PST. The ceremony will be hosted and organized by Youth community ambassadors that have been trained by Ding Ding TV.

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