Technology Contest
Digital Graphics and Media Contests
TCEA's Digital Graphics and Media Contest is opportunity for students to show off their best digital graphics, videos, web sites, and interactive media and to learn how to make it even better.
Contests will:
Teach students and teachers proper methods and techniques for using digital media in all forms to convey a message, convince an audience, or demonstrate mastery of a subject.
Display student work that demonstrates a thorough understanding of the technology and techniques necessary to produce top-quality products.
Improve students' and teachers' understanding of the subject matter through critical judging and comments from industry experts to further enhance their skills.
Connect students, teachers, and industry experts in an ongoing dialog before and after the contest to create a vibrant and meaningful community for them to use as a creative outlet.
Contest Theme
The Green Movement / Going Green
Interactive Media (Grades 9-12)
The integration of digital media including combinations of electronic text, graphics, moving images, and sound, into a structured digital computerized environment that allows people to interact with the data for educational purposes.
Web Design (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
The Integration of digital media including combinations of electronic text, graphics, moving images, and sound, into a structured online environment using HTML and other web programming languages.
Video and Motion (Grades 6-8, 9-12)
Videos taken from either an analog (tape) or digital (DVD/hard drive/flash memory) source and imported into a computer for editing, enhancement, correction, and production.
Graphic Design (Grades 3-5, 6-8, 9-12)
Any original combination of still images, text, photographs, illustrations put together to form a cohesive, entertaining, and engaging composition that pertains directly to the contest theme.
Project submission will open Feb. 16, 2009 and close March 2, 2009.
Judging will end March 20 and winners will be notified in April 2009.