Title: TASK: Create a video and participate in the school competition
Course: Project week - Leuphana-Copy > Section: Day 4

Sometimes having a good idea is only part of the solution to a problem; communicating your idea compellingly can be just as important if you want it to influence how people think about an issue.

Teach About US calls all project week participants to contribute to a video competition for creative and innovative approaches to local community energy planning!

What are the problems that you identify concerning community energy planning in the 21st century? How can we tap renewable sources in a way to provide reliable and affordable energy to our communities? How can we increase the efficiency of appliances, housing, and transportation to become less dependent on fossil fuels? What is the contribution that we can make in our everyday lives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and thus mitigate climate change? These are big questions and community energy planning is directly concerned with all of them.

Produce a creative video about your course’s community energy pitch and submit it to the Teach About US project week competition.

- Your video should creatively present the results of your project week participation. Think of a good story or an interesting question to be answered.
- It should not be longer than 3 minutes.
- It should be in English, or German and English.
- It should be submitted on behalf of your class; only one video per course can be accepted.
- You may use video editing software to create and edit your video.
- You may not use copyrighted (chart) music. Instead, use platforms like the free music archive (http://freemusicarchive.org/), but always check how the author and composer are to be attributed. The same goes for stock photos (http://www.freepik.com/, https://www.pexels.com/) and stock videos (https://pixabay.com/videos/).
- All persons who appear in your video must consent to them being recorded. All persons depicted in the video must be at least 14 years old by June 1, 2018.
- By submitting your video, you agree that it will be posted to the Teach About US website together with your names.

Do you have further questions? Post them in the Virtual Town Hall or contact a Teach About US representative.

To submit your video, fill out the form in the Virtual Town Hall and upload the link to your video (only one course representative has to do this):

Submit video

Good luck with your project and impress us with your video!