The Rotary Club of Chilliwack has announced the winners of its new video contest for youth.
Four students in Grades 6 to 12 won cash prizes after entering the Rotary Climate Change Video Contest this spring.
In the Grade 6 to 8 category, first place went to Willem Acker while Nina Froese won second place. For teens in Grades 9 to 12, Finny Bicycle placed first and Thomas Chirico was second.
The first-place winners will each receive a $300 cash prize, and second-place winners get $200 each.
The Rotary Club of Chilliwack has put together climate-change education kits for kids in Kindergarten to Grade 5 which are in every Chilliwack elementary school library. Rotarians then wanted to bring something similar to middle-school and high-school kids.
"We figured videos would be more appropriate for Grades 6 to 12, so we tried to come up with video ideas for about two years. We learned a couple things about ourselves: we are old (or feel that way); we are no longer cool," Rotarian Robyn Curtis said with a smile.
"So, we decided to change the focus and ask the kids to come up with climate-related videos. They did not disappoint!"
The videos will be shown and prizes awarded during the Rotary meeting on Friday, June 13.
To see the winning videos, go to the Rotary Club of Chilliwack website at chilliwackrotary.com/rotary-climate-change-video-contest.
