PSA Contest Rules & Prizes
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HOW TO ENTER
Send in your entire team’s entry forms, waivers, and two copies of your DVD to:
Florida KidCare Act-Out for Health Contest
661 E. Jefferson Street, 2nd Floor
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Entries must be postmarked no later than Friday, January 6, 2012.
AWARDS
The Act-Out for Health PSA Contest is open to all 6th through 12th grade students in the state of Florida. The Act-Out for Health PSA Contest winners will be selected by a panel of Florida KidCare judges. District winners will be selected from three regions across the state. (Click here for details about which district/region your school is in). Judges will select one winner from each of the three regions to advance to the Statewide Grand Prize finals. A Statewide Grand Prize will then be awarded to one of the three regional winners. The Statewide Grand Prize winner cannot claim both a regional prize and the statewide prize.
Please note that the award amounts have changed this year.
District Winners: $50 for each winner.
Regional Winners: $750 to the winning team and $350 to the school.
Statewide Grand Prize Winner: $1,000 to the winning team and $500 for the school.
If your entry is selected as a winner, the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation may request your social security number for accounting purposes so you can receive your prize. All winners will be invited to attend an awards ceremony in Orlando in early February. Winners unable to attend this event will be mailed their prizes. Winning entries will be posted on the Act-Out for Health Contest website following the statewide awards ceremony.
THEMES
So, you’ve probably heard your parents talking about it or maybe you’ve seen it on the news. These days, it seems everyone is talking about health care. Now it’s your turn. First we have to ask: do you know about the importance of having health insurance? Your thoughts and answers are what we need for this competition.
For this year’s contest, we’ve come up with three themes. You get to pick one theme to develop your 30-second commercial. Here’s what we’ve got:
Theme 1: Stay healthy with Florida KidCare
Children enrolled in Florida KidCare receive comprehensive health coverage including doctor visits, shots, surgery, prescriptions, vision and hearing screenings, mental health care, dental check-ups and hospital stays.
With these quality health care services offered through the Florida KidCare program, kids like you can stay healthy, and stay active in the classroom and on the field (or stage, or studio, or…well you get the picture).
Theme 2: This is what healthy looks like.
When you feel good, you look good. Maintaining healthy habits like eating right, exercising and getting regular checkups can help keep our bodies strong, teeth clean, and mind fabulous. Especially when you have health insurance like Florida KidCare.
The trick to looking and feeling your best is about making the right choices over the wrong ones. It’s as simple as choosing carrots over candy, taking the stairs instead of the elevator, or having great health insurance instead of hoping for the best.
Theme 3: Healthy is more fun than you think.
Being healthy doesn’t have to be a chore or a bore.
It’s easy to make eating healthy and exercising fun. You and your friends can get together to create delicious snacks. You can exercise during one of your favorite TV shows. Or you can plan a day of fun activities for you and your favorite folks.
However you choose to make it fun, the key to it all is having health insurance so you can get regular checkups, prescriptions and more.
Once you’ve picked a contest theme, write your own storylines for the commercial and start shooting! Remember, this can be a group project of no more than three people. Also, be sure to follow the contest rules and guidelines outlined below so your entry won’t get disqualified.
RULES
We have new rules. Please read this section carefully to make sure your entries will qualify.
Grade Requirement. We’re looking for a commercial made for students, by students. Only children in grades sixth through 12th may enter the contest. You can get help from a teacher or mentor, but remember: the writing, filming and production of this video must be completed by middle or high school students.
Group size. We don’t expect you to shoot this thing by themselves, but we do have to set a limit on the size of groups entering. No more than three team members are allowed per commercial. You may recruit extra friends to act in the commercial, but only three team members can write, direct and produce the PSA. If you’ve got six friends interested in helping, divide into two teams! There is also no limit on the number of entries each team can submit.
Time. The commercial must be exactly 30 seconds and must have an additional five second lead-in. This means the commercial must be introduced by a five-second blank screen or countdown, followed by 30 seconds of your ad content. Even commercials just one or two seconds over or under the time frame will be disqualified, so make sure you are keeping track of the time!
No stunts. Period. If you team pulls some crazy stunt like those guys on TV, the judges are going to put those entries straight in the trash.
Must-have Information. All TV PSA entries must include the Florida KidCare logo, phone number (1.888.540.5437) and web address (FloridaKidCare.org). These items must be spelled correctly.
Digital only. You must submit two (2) DVDs of your commercial. Each disc must be labeled with a title, names of the group members and of the school.
No favorites. Sorry, but the children of Florida Healthy Kids Corporation employees or board members are not eligible to participate.
