On-Site Competitions
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Step into the anchor desk and showcase your live broadcast journalism skills under pressure. In this fast-paced timed competition, teams will analyze provided press releases, organize them into a logical newscast, draft a polished script, and deliver a seamless performance directly to a single camera.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 2, DMI 5.1: Technical Execution
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Step into the role of an investigative broadcast news team. In this fast-paced timed competition, student journalists research, shoot, write, and edit a complete, professional news package on-site. Teams must gather factual reporting, conduct interviews, and craft a compelling narrative while maintaining strict journalistic integrity.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMII 7.1: Specialized Genres
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Put your visual design skills to the test in a fast-paced print graphic design challenge. Student designers are tasked with creating a high-impact promotional print piece, balancing branding, typography, and visual hierarchy to capture the attention of a target audience.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, IDA 6.1.3: Brand Identity
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Bring a story to life from page to screen in a fast-paced, on-site narrative filmmaking competition. Student filmmakers must concept, shoot, and edit an original short film from scratch, seamlessly integrating prompt elements provided at competition kickoff into a compelling cinematic story.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMII 8.1: Project Management
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Master the art of high-impact micro-storytelling where every frame counts. In this fast-paced micro-short challenge, student filmmakers must concept, shoot, and edit a concise, high-energy story or visual spot in under half a minute, bringing an assigned creative theme to life with maximum impact.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMII 5.3.4: Elevator Pitches
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Test your screenwriting, directing, and narrative resolution skills in this unique storytelling challenge. Student filmmakers are provided with established setup scenes and must concept, film, and edit the final scene to complete the story—delivering a compelling resolution and a powerful climactic moment on screen.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 2, DMI 8.2.6: Version Control
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Step into the role of a digital media manager and content creator. In this real-time social strategy challenge, student creators concept, capture, and execute a cohesive digital content campaign around an assigned theme, demonstrating visual storytelling, branding, and platform engagement under a live deadline.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMI 11.1: Social Strategy
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Step into the world of commercial product photography. In this real-world creative challenge, student photographers capture an assigned item in action, blending professional commercial lighting and composition with dynamic lifestyle imagery featuring live talent.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMII 5.2.2: Client Needs
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Step into the world of conceptual narrative photography. In this expressive challenge, student photographers tell a visual story through a cohesive three-part photo series, capturing mood, narrative depth, and symbolic themes in a live environment.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 2, IDA 3.1.3: Aesthetics & Function
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Explore the art of environmental portraiture. In this fast-paced photography challenge, student photographers capture the relationship between a human subject and their surrounding environment, demonstrating lighting control, advanced composition, and deliberate visual framing on location.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 2, IDA 2.1.1: Visual Composition & Spatial Design
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Test your eye for timing, composition, and spontaneous visual storytelling in a real-world environment. In this fast-paced photography challenge, student photographers document raw, unscripted moments of public life as they unfold in real time.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 2,DMI 4.3.2: Ethics (Can vs Should)
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Step into the role of an event video production crew. In this multi-day video challenge, student production teams document live event energy, capture dynamic B-roll and soundbites, and craft a high-energy recap video that tells the story of the festival experience from the ground up.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMII 8.1: Project Management
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Step into the role of a purpose-driven media producer. In this fast-paced video challenge, student production teams concept, shoot, and edit a short-form video campaign designed to inform, persuade, and drive positive behavioral change among high school peers around an assigned theme.
CTE Standards: Rigor Level 3, DMII 5.3.1: Market-based Scripts
REGISTRATION RULES
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Each program may have multiple teams competing in competitions, but we want to avoid over-saturating one competition which is why we have a limit of 3 teams per competition, per program.
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There is no limit on how many students can be on one team, but highly encouraged to make it manageable
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Each student has only enough time to compete in one competition.
COMPETITION DETAILS
Students will compete in On-site Competitions during the first day of the festival. Students will have approximately 4 and a half hours on DAY 1 to create content from start to finish. Prompts will be available to registered teams just after the Opening Ceremony, and winners will be announced and shown at the Closing Ceremony.
Teams are required to bring their own gear to shoot and edit.
All content must be created during the competition.