New projects are up and coming for SFS! One huge project that we are in the final stages of is creating a video entry for the Coalition Wild contest.
If you don't know what Coalition Wild is, it's basically a contest for people under the age of 30 to show their ideas on how to create a 'Wilder world'. You can enter via video, essay, poem, any medium you choose.
SFS was contacted by Crista Valentino from the Murie Center encouraging us to enter, and we decided that the possible prize for winning is completely worth our time.
The contest is over the first of July, and winners are announced on the 15th. Two winners are chosen and are sent on an all expense paid trip to Salamanca, Spain, to present to the 10th annual World Wilderness Congress in October of 2013. Even though we thoroughly do not expect to win, having a video that we have made on our own, on our club, is amazing to have and share.
We decided that the best topic we could talk about would be plastic consumption and reduction in Jackson Hole. This is because we have worked on projects such as the plastic bag project, removing plastic water bottles from the high school lunch line, to implementing the water bottle fillers on the water fountains that record the amount of plastic bottles that you are offsetting with reusable bottles.
Because the video is due so soon, we are on a pretty tight time schedule. Luckily we have a club member, Carson, who is a very talented video producer and editor who took the job as our Director of Photography. We also have 4 club members who are part of the Digital Media and Communications class at the high school, who have experience filming, editing, and uploading videos.
We are also going to create a kick-starter account to promote our video and hopefully raise some money to fund our projects.
Check out the Coalition Wild Facebook page and website!! Www.facebook.com/CoalitionWILD
Www.coalitionwild.org
Check out the Murie Center!!
Www.MurieCenter.org
