Attention all LATINO Students

 

Scholarship

Funded by the Leslie Ebert Memorial Fund

En Español

Prizes              
One $2,000 - First prize scholarship (judged by WRTC panel)
One $1,000 - Second prize scholarship (judged by WRTC panel)
One $500 - Third prize scholarship (judged by WRTC panel)

Deadline  
Saturday March 31st, 2012 at 11:59pm.

Theme 
"Organ and Tissue Donation: Persuade someone to become an organ, eye and tissue donor":  Submit a 2 to 3 minute video including ALL of the elements listed below, fiction or nonfiction, in English, spanish or Spanglish.  
 -- Explore and debunk one or more myths and misconceptions that surround organ, eye and tissue donation.  (i.e. "I am too old to be a donor", or "the doctors will not try to save my life if i'm an organ donor").  
 -- Explore and explain the facts and statistics (i.e. "More than 112,000 people await a life-saving gift"). 
 -- Create a call to action (i.e. "Organ donation gives hope and saves lives.  Sign up today at www.BeADonor.org"). 

 To get the facts about organ, eye and tissue donation, please click here

Sponsor        
Washington Regional Transplant Community is the D.C. metropolitan area's organ and tissue recovery agency.  WRTC is dedicated to saving more lives through educating people from all walks of life in our community about the benefits of organ, eye and tissue donation.

Rules             
Participants must follow all ALL competition rules.  entrants will be disqualified if there are no citations, if the video is longer than 3 minutes, if it is not original, or if the submission is late.

 To see ALL Rules and Entry Form, click below 

Done Vida Scholarship rules 2012 (PDF) 
  Done Vida Scholarship 2012 entry form (Word)
NOTE: This document must be filled and sent with a link of the YouTube page with your video entry 

When            
Videos will be up for public viewing and voting from April 15 - May 15, 2012.  Scholarship winners only will be notified on or about May 30th, 2012.

Additional information             
The videos will be judged by an advisory panel consisting of judges selected from interested WRTC volunteers and staff members.  WRTC will have 2 Flip cameras available for students that don't have access to a video camera.  Students will be required to sign a document that will ask them to return the camera in the same condition it was provided.  WRTC has a student guidebook online WRTC guide

PRIVACY POLICY
Washington Regional Transplant Community (WRTC) does not collect personal information from website visitors (e.g., www.BeADonor.org  or www.donante.org ). Numerical data (e.g. number of visitors to the website or a particular page) are collected for statistical purposes only.  Students who submit video entries will not be enrolled to receive extraneous emails and/or solicitations of any sort.  Only scholarship winners will be contacted by the staff of WRTC.  Scholarship recipients should note that their name, home town, high school, college institution the student plans to atteend, prize amount and winning video will be listed on WRTC's website and may also be used in other promotional materials (e.g., in WRTC newsletters, press materials and on the Done Vida Scholarship Facebook page). Any photos submitted by the students or taken during an official in-person presentation of the scholarship may also be included in WRTC promotional materials.