Youth Xchange Statewide Video Contest
Aloha!
Now entering its fifteenth year, the Youth Xchange video competition is the State’s largest and it continues to grow. This year’s 904 entries was quite an accomplishment, but even more impressive was the depth and breadth of the messaging behind each entry. Together with our Presenting sponsor SONY Corporation, we want to say thank you for continuing to encourage our students to focus and speak out on issues of concern to them.
This year’s contest, included the following general categories:
- Animation: Digital, computer art, or animated presentation of an issue. (5 minute maximum)
- Mini Documentary: In-depth program of an event, issue, place, individual or group. (10 minute maximum)
- News: News coverage of an issue. Submission of a news segment or report is encouraged. (2 minute maximum)
- Public Service Announcement (PSA): A commercial length, informative but concise video about an is sue. (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 our seven (7) general categories, we were also pleased to have eleven (11) sponsored categories, as follows:
| CATEGORY/LINK | SPONSOR | DESIRED OUTCOME |
| Clean Energy Future | Hawaiian Electric Company | PSA; minimally 30-seconds, but no more than 2-minutes |
| Creating Peace | Rotary Club of Honolulu | PSA; minimally 30-seconds, but no more than 5-minutes |
| Fight the Bite | State of Hawaii Dept. of Health, Public Health Preparedness Branch | PSA; minimally 30-seconds, but no more than 1-minute |
| Forest Health in Hawaii | State of Hawaii Dept. of Land & Natural Resources, Forestry & Wildlife Division | PSA; minimally 3-minutes, but no more than 5-minutes |
| Start Living Healthy | State of Hawaii Dept. of Health, Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Division | PSA; minimally 30-seconds, but no more than 1-minute |
| Storm Water Hero | City & County of Honolulu Department of Facility Maintenance | PSA; minimally 30-seconds, but no more than 5-minutes |
| Taking Assessments Seriously | State of Hawaii Dept. of Education, Strategy Innovation and Performance Office | PSA; 30-seconds |
| The Value of Water | Honolulu Board of Water Supply | |
| Traffic Safety | GEICO Hawaii and State of Hawaii Dept. of Health EMS & Injury Prevention System Branch | PSA; minimally 3-minutes, but no more than 5-minutes |
| Vote to Rise | Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement | PSA; minimally 30-seconds, but no more than 1-minute |
| Malama Honua | State of Hawaii Dept of EducationCommunications and Community Affairs Office | Short; minimally 1-minute no more than 5-minutes. |
‘Ōlelo (which in Hawaiian means “to speak”) empowers student voice by airing every student entry on cable television and over the internet. Click here to see a list of all the finalists and winners. You can view all of the 2017 finalists and winners as well as the Video Awards Competition Banquet here:
2017 YXC Video Awards Competition Banquet
2017 YXC Finalists — Vote to Rise
2017 YXC Finalists — Traffic Safety
2017 YXC Finalists — The Value of Water
2017 YXC Finalists — Taking Assessments Seriously
2017 YXC Finalists — Storm Water Hero
2017 YXC Finalists — Start Living Healthy
2017 YXC Finalists — Junior Expert
2017 YXC Finalists — Fight the Bite
2017 YXC Finalists — Clean Energy Future
2017 YXC Finalists — Animation
2017 YXC Finalists — Mini Documentary
2017 YXC Finalists — Malama Honua
2017 YXC Finalists — Forest Health
2017 Y XC Finalists — Creating Peace
2017 YXC Finalists — Expert and Junior Expert
Mahalo to our presenting sponsor Sony Hawaii and event sponsors (First Hawaiian Bank, Ko Olina, Nā Leo ʻo Hawaiʻi, and HENC) for making this annual competition possible, and mahalo to Hawaii’s teachers and administrators for empowering students to speak out on issues that affect them and their respective schools and communities.
Warm regards,
Youth Xchange Program Team