C.A.U.S.E. Challenge™ High School Film Festival
The C.A.U.S.E. Challenge™ High School Film Festival, presented by Bayer Corporation, Carnegie Science Center’s Regional SciTech Initiative and Pittsburgh Filmmakers, invites students - either individually or in teams of up to four - to write, produce and edit a video or film on the theme “Mutual Impact: The Environment and You.” C.A.U.S.E. stands for “Creating Awareness and Understanding of our Surrounding Environment.”
Held annually since 2005, C.A.U.S.E. challenges students to use video and film as an agent of social and environmental change. And they’ve responded. Their films have tackled water and air pollution, energy conservation, green building, mercury poisoning, habitat restoration and desertification.
“I think people need to be more environmentally conscious,” explains one high school sophomore who worked on a film. “Teenagers definitely need to learn about the environment because we’re the ones who are going to have to deal with it and make the changes.”
Ninth- to 12th-grade students who live in one of the following counties are welcome to enter: (Pennsylvania) Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Centre, Clarion, Clearfield, Crawford, Erie, Fayette, Forest, Greene, Indiana, Jefferson, Lawrence, Mercer, Somerset, Venango, Washington and Westmoreland; (Ohio) Jefferson, Columbiana and Mahoning; (West Virginia) Monongalia, Preston and Marion.
For more information or to download an entry packet, please visit www.SciTechSpec.org or call the C.A.U.S.E. Challenge Hotline at 412-237-1552.
