Brainyflix Video Contest

Thanks to everyone who participated in our annual Brainyflix contest. Thanks especially to our generous sponsors Salesforce.com and Mailchimp for their help and sponsorship to make this event possible.

We are always amazed and inspired by the creativity of the submissions we receive on Gotbrainy.

Jack and Nori

Still want more more??? No problem! We're running our annual Brainyflix Video Contest starting JANUARY 1, 2010. We'll be awarding a Grand Prize of $600 to the video that best teaches the word, as determined by a panel of judges.. Half will go to the maker(s) of the video and the other half will go to his or her school. And to make this viral, we'll give out 1 free iTunes download for every 3 videos you\ submit or referrals you provide. (iTunes downloads available for first 900 videos only).

Rules

Make a video about any SAT/ACT vocabulary word of your choosing from this list. Please pick a word without any videos submissions! :)
1 video for 1 word, but you can make as many videos as you want.
In your video, you MUST use the word & use the word correctly. In fact, the more times you use the word, the better the video.
Anyone can enter the competition! Just remember that part of the prize money has to go to a U.S. high school or middle school of your choosing.
All voting will happen at BrainyFlix.com, so make sure your video includes the following Vote for this video at www.BrainyFlix.com/words/XXXXX. And substitute XXXXXX with you\ r vocab word.
Be fun! But please be cool and not submit anything that will get us busted by your teachers. That said, we reserve the right to remove videos for any reason, stated here or not.
Important contest dates:
- Video submission opens: 1/1/2010
- Video submission ends: 3/15/2010
- Voting opens: 3/16/2010
- Voting ends: 3/29/2010
- Winners announced: 3/31/2010

Video Submission Suggestions

The ideal video length is about 1 minute or less. Viewers tend to lose their attention for anything longer.
For uploading your video, use YouTube or SchoolTube.
Higher resolution is better. Currently, YouTube allows for 1290 x 720 (16x9 HD) and 640 x 480 (4:3 SD). More details here.
Start and end the video with the word, its part of speech, definition, and the url where it can be voted on - http://www.BrainyFlix.com/words/XXXXX and replace XXXXXX with your vocab word.
For the information you fill out when uploading a video, enter the following:
- For the Title, and replace with your vocab word.
- For the Description, write the vocab word, its part of speech, definition, the sample sentence (if you have one), and the Vote for this video at http://www.BrainyFlix.com/words/ and replace\ with your vocab word.
- The Tags BrainyFlix, SAT, ACT, vocab, contest, reading, writing, memorize, MIT, and replace with your vocab word.
- Sample:

Useful Documents

Depending on school policy, you may need to get permission forms signed. Here are a couple permission form templates for videotaping students and posting videos on the web. ll need to edit acc\ ordingly.

This is a flyer for the contest that you can print and then post or distribute.

Brainyflix Flyer

Sample Videos

Brainypics Flashcard Contest

Waddap, Brainyflixers!!! We're at it again! We're offering $$$ and iTunes to get YOU to make Brainypics flashcards. Submit Brainypics betwee\ n NOW and DECEMBER 7, 2009 and compete to win our $200 Grand Prize.

This is how we'll choose the winner: Every week, we'll pick our 5 favorite Brainypics, and those 5 will qualify for our final round of judging. The contest lasts 10 weeks total, so we'll be choosin\ g out of 50 total Brainypics. (By the way, we're looking for guest judges, like a teacher or Justin Timberlake. Please be in touch if you are interested in judging!)

Here are the prizes:

$200 Grand Prize Winner - $100 goes to the student & $100 to his or her school.
Runner Up Contestants - We'll pick 10 of these. Last time we gave away iTunes gift cards, so maybe we do that again. Or maybe we do something different. We'll let you know!
Submitters: 1 iTunes for every 5 Brainypics submitted. (Offer valid for the first 500 submissions).

Rules

You can submit as many as Brainypics as you want, but they can't be duplicates. In fact, you could have more than 1 Brainypic in the final round of judging.
Your sentence must include the word, use the word correctly, and use proper grammar.
Anyone can enter the competition! Just remember that part of the prize money has to go to a U.S. school of your choosing.
Important contest dates:
- Submission opens: NOW
- Submission ends: 12/7/2009
- Grand prize winner announced: 12/10/2009
Be fun, but please be cool and not submit anything that will get us busted by your teachers. That said, we do reserve the right to remove Brainypics for any reason, stated here or not.