Calvert Hall Students Win PSA Contest – ‘Teenagers Confessions’ Wins 3D Project

Dozens Of Teens Raise Awareness About Distracted Driving

The first place award went to “Teenagers Confessions” by Jacob Kring, Michael Bell, Christian Grier and D’Sean Williams-Brown of Calvert Hall.

Click here to see the students’ winning PSA video, “Teenagers Confessions” >

 

3/9/2011 – Baltimore, MD – Story courtesy of NBC News 11 in Baltimore – The winners are in!

In September, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center — with the support of Maryland State Department of Education, the Maryland Highway Safety Foundation and WBAL-TV 11 — launched a video contest for high school students to produce a concept video to be made into a public service announcement for the 3D Project -Don’t Drive Distracted.

From a field of 10 finalists, Marylanders voted for their favorite video to be professionally produced at WBAL-TV 11. The first place award went to Teenagers Confessions by Jacob Kring, Michael Bell, Christian Grier and D’Sean Williams-Brown. A $4,000 award will go to the students’ school, Calvert Hall College of Baltimore.

“My inspiration for this project was to give ideas to other filmmakers out there to use emotion for advertising, not just words and letters and statistics, maybe just attack the emotional side,” Grier said during an awards ceremony at WBAL-TV on Tuesday night.

“It’s to understand that texting and driving is dangerous — that they should be more concerned when they are driving,” Bell said.

WBAL-TV launched its 3D Project campaign nearly a year ago, targeting teenagers because 80 percent of them drive distracted, statistics show.

“Young people are experiencing the consequences of distracted driving, and it’s that loss and those experiences that are helping them decide that they need to craft the message and that they need to be more careful,” said WBAL Public Affairs Director Wanda Draper.

Michael Riddle from Hammond High School in Columbia won second place with Hang It Up . A $3,000 prize will go to Hammond High.

“Even if you think you’re getting a text, don’t answer it because you might in that moment end up in that tree or on that guardrail dead,” Riddle said during the awards ceremony.

Third place went to In a World of One’s Own by Nathan Pautsch, Natalie Pautsch, Carlton Mackall and Jonathan Pautsch. The third place price of $2,000 will go to the students’ school, Arundel Christian School in Hanover.

“Distracted driving doesn’t always hurt you. It hurts somebody else, a pedestrian or another person,” Pautsch said.