Announcing the 2021 Teen Video Challenge Results
2021 will be the last year for this long-running contest sponsored and coordinated by CSLP. We hope that public and school library staff will consider coordinating a similar contest next year on a local level to engage teen students and encourage them to create public service type videos to promote reading and library use all year long. The New York State Library would like to thank public and school library and system staff for once again promoting teen participation in the Teen Video Challenge! Your efforts and dedication working with students and teens to encourage and promote Summer Reading and Summer Learning are truly appreciated.
Congratulations to the five official winners of the national 2021 CSLP Teen Video Challenge! These winning videos were created by teens during the summer and submitted by their supporting libraries to help promote Summer Reading and Summer Learning as well as highlight and interpret the 2021 animal theme and slogan of Tails and Tales! The creative and inspiring videos came from a total of 33 libraries around the country, and New York State was well represented with 11 teens/teams of teens entering the national competition. Links to the 4 winning New York State videos and the winning video from Florida can be found below.
The winning teens/teen teams each received a $200 cash prize from CSLP, and will also have their videos featured on the national CSLP site and the Summer Reading at New York Libraries site. Please share these videos widely within your library networks and communities, and encourage libraries and schools to use any/all of the winning videos to help promote their summer programs, reading, and library use.
A Fairy Tail Come to Life (NY)
Alexa T, Eddie X, Grace C, Grace K, Izzy C
Colonie Library, Loudonville, NY (Upper Hudson Library System)
Warrior Cat Blues (NY)
Gene Weng and Will Kretz
Sayville Public Library, Sayville, NY (Suffolk Cooperative Library System)
Discovering Tales (NY)
Sarah Sears
Minerva Free Library, Sherman, NY (Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System)
View at: https://youtube.com/shorts/v4nl39WIEnw?feature=share
Tails and Tails: A Summer Of Reading (FL)
Caitlin Faulkenberry
Seminole County Public Library System
Tails&Tales, Reading with a Buddy (NY)
Luna Adams
Mulberry Street Library, New York, NY (New York Public Library System)
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2020 Teen Video Challenge Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 CSLP Teen Video Challenge celebrating Summer Reading and “Imagine Your Story!” These five creative and inspiring videos came from teens in Massachusetts, Virginia, New York, Ohio, and Arizona; there were also two honorable mentions from Oregon and Texas. Links to the winning New York State video from Molly Graiff of North Greenbush Public Library and to the other 4 winning TVC video entries can be found below!
CSLP received a total of 72 video entries nationwide this year, which is certainly impressive with most schools and libraries closed down and Summer Reading programs switching to a virtual format. The New York State Library would like to thank all of the public and school libraries and library systems in the state for promoting teen participation in this year’s Teen Video Challenge! Your efforts, creativity and dedication to working with students and teens in your libraries to encourage and promote Summer Reading are truly appreciated.
We look forward to more creative TVC entries from New York State in 2021 when the slogan will be “Tails and Tales!”
Winners!
Shamika Kanitkar
Massachusetts
Bookish Tales: Rapunzel’s Library Adventure
https://youtu.be/iu9_K3uQ5Xo
Ava Lazar and Julian Schenker
Virginia
Finding a Story
https://youtu.be/xmYg5AyAp7o
Molly Graiff
North Greenbush Public Library, NY
The Places I Can Go
https://youtu.be/6e7Ba1_ZN6s
Avery Casey
Ohio
Your Story
https://youtu.be/QBKFYOCuknY
Gabriel Yorty
Arizona
TEEN VIDEO CHALLENGE 2020
https://youtu.be/nYjABwz5qeg
For questions, contact Sharon Phillips, Coordinator of Summer Reading at New York Libraries, at Sharon.Phillips@nysed.gov or (518) 486-4863.