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Influence the Choice 2016 Video Contest

PictureInfluence the Choice 2016
Contest Winners

 
The Issaquah Schools Foundation’s Influence the Choice – Drug Prevention Alliance for Youth announced the 2016 winners of the “Influence the Choice” student video contest at a video viewing party held May 17 at the X3 Teen Center in Sammamish.
Students from the greater Issaquah area were challenged to influence friends, parents and younger students to adopt healthy lifestyles by submitting video “commercials” two minutes in length or less.  Contestants were required to include at least one health-related fact in the videos.  Thirty-three videos were submitted to the contest by high school and middle school students from Skyline, Issaquah and Eastlake high schools, and Pine Lake and Issaquah middle schools. 

Winning students are:


Overall Winner:
John Farrar, Matthew Mogg and Alec McKeefry, Skyline High School, “Think About It”
 
Category:  My Choice To Be Healthy
·       First Place:  Nick Nielsen, Jack Humble, Skyline High School, “Find Your Outlet”
·       Second Place:  Bella Mishuris, Alissa Scott, Skyline High School, “My Choice To Be Healthy”
·       Third Place:  Brandon Kay, Eugene Tou, Alex Elevathingal, Ivan Esmeral, Trevor West, Skyline High School, “Friendship”
 Category:  What I Wish My Parents Knew
·       First Place:  Evan Minicucci, Skyline High School, “ITC”
·       Second Place:  Jena McJunkin, Molly Nakao, Skyline High School, “Influence The Choice 2016” 
·       Third Place:  Grayson Cooper, Skyline High School, “Don’t Be Afraid”

Category:  To My Younger Self
·       First Place:  Olga Andreeva, Issaquah High School, “Say No to Drugs, Live Your Own Life”
·       Second Place:  Morgan Jones, Skyline High School, “Dear Freshman Year Me”
·       Third Place:  Malia Nakamura, Darian Himes, Skyline High School, “Brothers and Sisters”

Category:  Middle School Videos
·       First Place:  Enya Song, Pine Lake Middle School, “Live a Life to Remember”
·       Second Place:  Mansi Rivera, Pine Lake Middle School, “I Wish My Parents Would Understand”
·       Third Place:  Mahima Joshi, Pine Lake Middle School, “What Do I Do to Stay Healthy?”
·       Fourth Place:  Carah Smallwood, Issaquah Middle School, “2016 Influence the Choice”
 
Cash prizes for winners were provided by the Rotary Club of Issaquah, the Rotary Club of Sammamish, and the Sammamish Kiwanis Club.  The contest was also supported by a $3000 grant from the City of Issaquah Arts Commission.
Winning videos will be offered to middle and high schools for play on in-school TV stations, to school health teachers and counselors, and to the cities of Sammamish and Issaquah for play on municipal stations. 

A seventeen-member panel of judges selected the winners.  Half of the judges were students.  Adults included a production manager from KING5 TV, members from the Issaquah Arts Commission and the Issaquah Schools Foundation board of directors, and a member of the Sammamish City Council.

This is the fourth year of the Influence the Choice student video contest.  “The student video contest is our signature activity,” stated ITC Director Pat Castillo.  “Our kids need to be armed with facts and sensible arguments about how healthy drug-free choices provide benefits throughout their lifetime.  During the middle school and high school years, students increasingly rely on their peers for information and influence.  The video contest empowers young people to research the facts and then talk to each other about this important issue in their lives.”

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