Sparky Awards at Penn 2009

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the Cinema Studies Program and the Center for Public Health Initiatives are proud to sponsor this contest.

The judging panel of faculty and students will select one video as the overall winner and one video for the Public Health Category. Each winner will receive a videocamera or similar item valued at up to $500, and the same video could be chosen for both awards. A People's Choice contest will be conducted with online voting, and the People's Choice award winner will receive an iPod Shuffe. (No prizes may be awarded if the applicant pool is insufficient.) All entries to the Sparky Awards at Penn will be entered in the national Sparky Awards contest which offers a grand prize of $1,000 cash award, video-editing software and hardware.

Videos must:

• Be no more than two minutes long
• Have been created after January 1, 2009
• Videos with audio in languages other than English must be subtitled in English
• Be posted on the internet and available for public use under a Creative Commons license which requires proper attribution of all copyrighted work (video, audio, images, text, etc.) used in the making of the video.
• Be submitted on or before December 5, 2009 through online submission form

Students: Tell the world the way it should be. Is open sharing of ideas and information important to you? Form a team or go it alone and make a video to demonstrate the value of information sharing as you see it.
Faculty: The Sparky Awards can be easily integrated into a great new media assignment for fall courses. The Sparky Awards educator's guide provides suggestions.

The Sparky Awards are sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries, the Association of Research Libraries and other national organizations. For more information, please contact Anu Vedantham, WIC Director.