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Earth Science Week Announces Video Contest Winners

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) has announced the winners of the first Earth Science Week video contest. Teams of educators and students were invited to submit a 30- to 90-second original video informing viewers about an outdoor place that is special in terms of geoheritage and geoscience.

The winners are:

  • “Deal Island” - Educator Kolby Noble and students Ashlynn Merrit, Matthew Price, Lasadia Skelley, Dawson Daniels, Nathan Bradford, Jazmine White, Madison Mechalske, Ethan Scott, Alyssa Moisan, Kenny Stachawski, and Paige Barnes (Deal Island, MD).
  • “Rock Hard” - Educator Margaret Salter and students Nick Urbanic, Hayes Densman, Savannah Urbanic Densman (Milton, FL).
  • “The Science Geeks” - Educator Karen Folleras and students Audrey Chang, Emilia Lazarova, Gousikaa Ashlyn Laubach (Colorado Springs, CO).
  • “Science Superbs” - Educator Karen Folleras and students Prarthana Mathad, Peter Richardson, Ashton Holmes, Beckett Shanon, Aashay Deshpande, and Lucian Ensell (Colorado Springs, CO).

View the winning videos and read descriptions on the One Shared Place website, along with information about the other finalist teams. Winning videos can also be seen on the AGI YouTube page (http://bit.ly/2f040ew).

The contest, which promoted understanding of the important role of the geosciences in everyone’s life, selected winning entries that celebrated “Our Shared Geoheritage,” the theme of Earth Science Week 2016 (http://www.earthsciweek.org/). The event, AGI’s international public awareness campaign to promote the geosciences, reaches over 50 million people a year.

Congratulations to the winners and others who entered. Each winning team received a cash prize. A contest overview is provided in a brief One Shared Place Introduction video available via social media and YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6po8mZtOvps).

Reaching over 50 million people annually, Earth Science Week has been led by AGI in cooperation with its sponsors and the geoscience community since 1998. Earth Science Week 2017 will be celebrated October 8-14, 2017. To learn more, please visit www.earthsciweek.org. To order Toolkits, please visit www.earthsciweek.org/materials. You may also call AGI Publications to place your order at 703-379-2480.