Grades
3-5 Contest
(Entry Deadline March 1, 2012)
Question For Grade 3:
"Bullying isn't always hitting. What
other kinds of bullying do you see at
your school?"
Question For Grade
4: "What can you do if
you see your friends bullying
someone?"
Question for Grade
5: "Write a
letter to a victim of
bullying. What would you
say to them?"
Grades
6-12 PSA Contest
(Entry Deadline March
1, 2012)
Question
for the Grade 6-12 Public
Service Announcement Contest:
"Imagine you could sit down with
the President. What would you tell
him about bullying and
cyberbullying at your
school? What advice would
you give him about how to help
kids understand that bullying and
cyberbullying are wrong?"
Guidelines
Guidelines
for the Grades 3-5 contest
(scroll down for the Grade 6-12
PSA Guidelines)
Each entry should be submitted in
response to ONE of the questions
from the student’s grade
level. Third graders should
respond to a third grade question,
fourth graders to a fourth grade
question, etc.
Each response to the question may
take the form of a POSTER or a POEM
or a LETTER for the 5th grade
entries.
POEMS may be authored by one to two
children.
o They should not exceed
two pages long (handwritten).
POSTERS may be submitted in two
sizes:
o SMALL posters do not
exceed 11”x17” and may be submitted
by one to three children.
o LARGE posters exceed
11”x17” and may be submitted by up
to ten children.
o ALL POSTERS must be
accompanied by identifying
information (below) and a
descriptive paragraph.
Each entry MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING
INFORMATION WRITTEN ON IT:
1. The
child’s or children’s FULL name(s)
2. The
teacher’s name
3.
School name and town
Entries should be mailed to:
(*Poems and Letters may be faxed to
508-531-4355)
Grades 3-5 Essay Contest
Massachusetts Aggression Reduction
Center
Maxwell Library 201
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA 02325
Guidelines
for the Grades 6-12 PSA Contest
A Public Service Announcement
(“PSA”) is, in essence, a video
commercial designed to raise
awareness or change attitudes,
rather than to sell a product.
Examples of previous Public Service
Announcements are those that promote
buckling your seat belt in a car
(the “Click It or Ticket” television
campaign) or those designed to
discourage drug use in teens (the
“This Is Your Brain On Drugs”
campaign).
The Contest Guidelines are below.
Students in schools should form
groups of 2 to 12 students, and
those groups should together produce
a Public Service Announcement video.
That production must be designed to
raise awareness and improve other
teenagers’ attitudes around the
issues of aggression and bullying in
school.
Within the guidelines below, content
may be anything that students
consider would be effective in
raising awareness about bullying and
aggression among teens. We
hope to offer the winning team a
limousine to escort them to the
Awards Ceremony. Winning schools,
supervising adults, and others are
welcome and the students’ families
will also be invited.
Contest Guidelines
The video must be produced, written,
and acted in by students.
The student group producing the
video must be under the supervision
of a teacher, coordinator, guidance
counselor, theater teacher, or other
adult in the student group’s school.
The supervisor may be a volunteer
adult (e.g., a parent from the
community) if the school authorizes
the project.
The PSA may be submitted online, via
email, or on CD or DVD, or may be
made available on a school-run
website where we can view it online
for judging purposes.
Entries on outdated formats (e.g.,
Hi8 mini-tapes, VHS) may not be able
to be judged, subject to the
availability of appropriate
technology. Please do not use
these formats.
The PSA must run between
approximately 30 and 80 seconds.
Content must be appropriate for all
audiences. Submissions will be
disqualified if they contain:
Obscenities of any type;
Inappropriate or offensive language
of any type, including racial,
ethnic, or group slurs;
Nudity;
Sexual innuendo, sexual content,
sexually suggestive filming
techniques; or
Any other content which the judges
decide is inappropriate for a school
contest.
Parental releases (found below) must
be obtained for every student under
age 18 who is immediately involved
in the production. People that do
not play a vital role do not need
them. (For example, students who
help run a school television studio
but only assist in this particular
production tangentially would not be
part of the winning team and
therefore do not need releases; but
anyone who speaks on camera or
anyone who is actively involved in
the production must have a parental
release.) The parental release is
necessary because the winners’ names
will be released to the press and
their PSA may be aired on cable or
network television.
Productions must be turned into MARC
by March 1, 2012. Submissions should
be sent to: PSA Contest,
Massachusetts Aggression Reduction
Center, Bridgewater State College,
Bridgewater, MA 02325.
This contest is open to any 6th thru
12th grader in the state of
Massachusetts.
Download the Parental Release Form
AWARD CEREMONY: TBA
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