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2009 Burn Awareness Video Contest

 

 

The Mass. Association of Safety and Fire Educators and the state Department of Fire Services in conjunction with the MA Property Insurance Underwriting Association, is sponsoring a

2009 YouTubeTM  Video Contest

for

Burn Awareness

The entries will be judged based on how well the rules below were met and how informative the video is. A link from the Department of Fire Services website will direct the public to the uploaded video on YouTubeTM, with attribution to the creator(s). The creator(s) of the winning video will also receive a digital video camera for the school.

Prizes

The Grand Prize will be a digital video camera for the school and members of the winning team will share $200 in gifts cards from Best BuyTM.  Courtesy of the MA Property Insurance Underwriting Association and theMass. Association of Safety and Fire Educators.

The Second Place team will share $100 in gift cards from Best BuyTM. Courtesy of the Mass. Association of Safety and Fire Educators.

The Third Place team will share $50 in gift cards from Best BuyTM. Courtesy of the Mass. Association of Safety and Fire Educators.

Rules

Download a copy of contest rules PDF

Download Evaluation Rubric PDF

Contest is open to Grade 9-12 students enrolled in Massachusetts’ schools.

  • The video should be 1-3 minutes long exploring burn prevention topics.
  • A rubric for how the videos will be evaluated is attached. PDF
  • The video should include age appropriate material for a target audience of students in grades 9-12. Material should not demonstrate risky or otherwise unsafe behavior. There can be no actual fire.
  • It should be both educational* and informational. So many YouTube videos show risky behavior but never tell the “rest of the story”.
  • All videos should be well researched.

  • We are accepting entries ONLY from school-sponsored communications courses or sponsored extra-curricular groups.

  • Communications teachers or faculty sponsors must review and approve all storyboards before filming starts.
  • Students are strongly encouraged to contact Student Awareness of Fire Education (S.A.F.E.) officers, public fire and life safety educators or burn and fire professionals and survivors to help with their research.
  • There can be multiple entries from the same school or program, as students may wish to work in small groups or teams on the project. Students on a winning team will share the prize.
  • Videos should be in one of these YouTube compatible formats: Windows Media Video(.avi); .AVI (windows), .MOV (mac); .MPEG; .FLV (adobe flash); .or SWF (shockwave flash).

Entries should be submitted no later than Friday, December 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, on CD or DVD to:

Fire Data and Public Education Unit
Department of Fire Services
P.O. Box 1025, State Rd
Stow, MA 01775

 

Helpful Resource Links for Contestants:

American Burn Association www.ameriburn.org/preventionEdRes.php;
Shriners Hospitals for Children www.shrinershq.org/Hospitals/Burn_Awareness/Educators/
Department of Fire Services www.mass.gov/dfs  click on Fire Safety Topics
National Fire Protection Association www.nfpa.org  click on Safety Information
Home Safety Council www.homesafetyCouncil.org  click on Family Burn Institute

 

Background

Burn Awareness Week is designed to provide an opportunity for burn, fire and life safety educators to unite in sharing a common burn awareness and prevention message in our communities. National Burn Awareness Week is February 7-13, 2010.

Educator Information

Burn Awareness Week is designed to provide an opportunity for burn, fire and life safety educators to unite in sharing a common burn awareness and prevention message in our communities. National Burn Awareness Week is February 7-13, 2010.

See Last Year’s Winners

To see last year’s winners, go to www.YouTube.com and search on DFSOSFM.

 2008 Winners of High School Burn Awareness Video Contest Announced

State Fire Marshal Stephen D. Coan and Thomas D’Esmond, administrator, Shriners Hospitals for Children Boston, launched Burn Awareness Week (February 1-7, 2009) at a presentation hosted by Shriners Hospitals for Children in Boston, a pediatric burn hospital. The winners of a statewide contest for high school media students, the YouTubeTMBurn Awareness Video Contest, sponsored by the state Department of Fire Services, the Mass. Association of Safety and Fire Educators (MA SAFE), and the Mass. Property Insurance Underwriting Association, were announced at the event.

Full Press Release With Winners PDF

The top three winning 3-minute videos were shown at this event and posted on YouTubeTM .by The Department of Fire Services Office of the State Fire Marshal. Shriners Hospitals and Shriners International are the national sponsors of Burn Awareness Week, which was February 1, and runs through February 7, 2009.