Geriatric Joy Video Contest

The Gerontology Learning Community at the School of Social Work is holding the Geriatric Joy Video Contest to showcase positive experience in relating to older adults.

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1. Eligibility

The Video Contest is open to all School of Social Work students, including students enrolled in the CASC undergraduate minor, MSW and doctoral students. Social work students can work with anyone as a team, but entries must be submitted by a SSW student (deemed the Entrant). Each student can submit only one video as an entrant.

2. Subject

Video must focus on older adults. It should show positive experience, such as joy, fun, humor, pleasant surprise, inspiration, gratitude, pride, enjoyment, awe and love in relating to older adults. It should be upbeat and uplifting.

3. Entry Requirements

Failure to meet any of these requirements will result in disqualification.

• Content: Submission must not contain text or imagery that is indecent or promote discrimination against any individuals or groups.
• Deadline: Entries must be submitted by a SSW student by 5pm on January 31, 2017.
• Duration: Video must be not longer than 3 minutes.
• Final 10 seconds: Video should end with a 10 second full-screen that includes the following:
  Interested to work with older adults? Visit http://ssw.umich.edu/programs/learning-communities/gerontology to learn about the geriatric social work program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
• Video format: Video must be submitted in one of the formats that YouTube accepts.
• Originality: Video must be original work and will not be made public prior to the contest.
• Permission: Entrants should assure that they have the rights or permission to use all content in the video. Entrants will grant the SSW exclusive right and license to the materials.
• Parental consent: Entrants must obtain parental consent for anyone under the age of 18 who appears in the video.

3. Resources and Support

The School of Social Work has IPODs and other equipment for loan that may help produce good quality video. To access these resources, SSW students can fill out the AV reservation request form. For general support, contact: [email protected]

4. How to Enter

All entrants must upload their video to https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/geriatric-joy/ , and fill out the online application form located at https://docs.google.com/a/umich.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-getkkR6uNV6rXm3S4l3fg550OrtI62BzRUusqSbDEprsFg/viewform

5. Judges and Judging Criteria

A panel of faculty and staff will screen all entries and select 3 to 5 videos as the finalists, based on the following criteria: positivity (joy, fun, humor, pleasant surprise, inspiration…), energy (uplifted, upbeat, empowering...), creativity (the sky's the limit), quality of video, and meeting the entry requirement. The videos chosen will be made available to the student body of SSW for voting. The video that gets the most votes will receive the top prize.

6. Prizes

$1,000 to the entrant of the top prize video (division of cash award is at the discretion of the entrant if the video is a group project.) The winner will be notified by email in February 2017. All finalists will have their videos featured on SSW website and other SSW social media.