Inspire Others to be Substance Free

 Health Rocks!® addresses the challenge of reducing tobacco, alcohol, e-cigarette/vaping and drug use. Youth socialize with each other through social media, video calling, and text messages several times a day or even hour. This year, we are giving youth an opportunity to share information with their friends that encourages healthy living, leadership, and positive peer influence.

The theme for this year's digital creation contest is: Inspire your friends to be substance free!

Winners will be featured on our NC 4-H Social Media sites!

There are 2 categories:

-Team-Designed Digital Creation

-Individual-Designed Digital Creation

Rules:

Entries:

1) 2-4 youth per creation for the Team-Designed Category

2) 1 youth per creation for the Individual-Designed Category

Submitting your entry:

Youth will submit their entry to their 4-H Agent for submission.  All entries will be judged in a state-level contest. The entries will be due to the state 4-H team by May 10, 2024. The state winners will be announced on May 24, 2024.

Design:

- Only ORIGINAL artwork will be considered. Please check your spelling!

- Digital Creations that include personal or corporate information or product

endorsements will be disqualified.

- Copyrighted Images/Subjects: Copyrighted and/or trademarked products, packaging, brand names, music, and advertisements may not be used within the poster. Please use resources such as Unsplash or Pixabay to ensure that the images are allowed to be used.

- Photographs of people: Original signed release forms are required for persons, whether public or private citizens, who are photographed and appear on the poster. Copies of release forms are located below.

- This digital creation can be a video, poster/flyer, image, photo, animation, or any "digitally presented creation".

Qualifications:

- The digital creation must be YOUTH directed and created. It must be their ORIGINAL creation. It must convey the message of "inspiring others to be substance free" to the viewer.

- Team-Designed Category:

- This category is for teams of 2-4 members that work together to create a digital creation.

-Individual-Designed Category:

- This category is for 1 individual youth who create a digital creation.

Judging:

A 1st place winner will be chosen from each category. The state competition will be judged using the following rubric:

● Marketability - 10 points.

● Creativity - 10 points.

● Attractiveness - 10 points.

● Accuracy/Organization - 10 points.

● Overall Impact - 10 points.

The winners in each division will have a "spotlight" on our NC 4-H social media sites and a

goody bag of SWAG!

The runner-ups will receive a goody bag of SWAG.

To enter please contact Shea Ann DeJarnette at Shea_Ann_DeJarnette@ncsu.edu or Jade McNeill at Jade_McNeill@ncsu.edu.