2024 PSA Contest Results
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PSA Contest #1 “That’s My Why”
Prompt
Audience: Youth grades 6-12
Your Assignment: Make a PSA about why you or someone on your team chooses not to drive impaired or to ride with someone who is impaired.
Your PSA must center around your reason or reasons. It may be experiences, people, an activity, dream, goal, or an area of interest. The story must be real, not fictional.
The PSA must end with someone saying “That’s my why”.
1st Place: Palo Verde High School
Team
Isaac Chapman
Teacher
Vicki Steffenhagen
2nd Place: Central High School
Team
Drew Bowman, Arson Baker, Alicia Padilla, Ben Loughary, Neil Wilkinson
Teacher
Josh Cantrell
3rd Place: Belton High School
Team
Bryant Barkley & Conner Sisemore
Teacher
Tabatha Babcock
Honorable Mention | “That’s My Why”
Lakeview High School
Team
Aiden Moore & Alyssa Hinton
Teacher
Jodi Darland
Redwater High School
Team
Greer Early & Madilyn Price
Teacher
Victoria Pearcy
David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center
Team
Jerard Miller & Malachai Dumas
Teacher
Joanne Casale
Stevenson High School
Team
Matthew Lewis, Kian Odongo, Luca Farris
Teacher
Rochelle Cripe
Westminster High School
Team
Ramon De Arcos Tapia, Desiree Stoddard, Adrian Vannavong, Axel Ventura
Teacher
Christopher Williams
Batavia High School
Team
Aiden Sanchez-Hinz
Teacher
Jennifer Carpenter
Canyon View High School
Team
Nathan LeBlanc & Noah Paz
Teacher
Jeff Seeker
Lebanon High School
Team
Kane Sherrell & Keegan Beasley
Teacher
Eric Adams
Sahuarita High School
Team
Reymond Martinez
Teacher
Derek Marshall
PSA Contest #2 “Dear Parents”
Prompt
Audience: Parents / Guardians of teenagers
Your assignment: Create a PSA targeted to parents and guardians of young people to prevent impaired driving.
Let parents know what you and your peers need from them. Your PSA must start with the line, “Dear Parents”.
1st Place: Canyon View High School
Team
Jake Parr & Hayden Brown
Teacher
Jeff Seeker
2nd Place: Hanford High School
Team
Peter Wilhelm & Jocelyn Gaca
Teacher
Cheyenne LaViolette
3rd Place: Whitney High School
Team
Raneen Abdelrahman & Talene Abdelrahman
Teacher
Ben Barnholdt
Honorable Mention | “Dear Parents”
Lee's Summit North High School
Team
Daniel Schmidt & Nick Yearout
Teacher
Terry Durnell
Ronald Reagan High School
Team
Parker Brue
Teacher
Kamille Donley
CTECH
Team
Corey Ogle, Armani Rodriquez, Melisa Ponce, Isabeau Garcia, Avery O’Brain
Teacher
Shoshana Howell
Carroll County Career and Technology Center
Team
Emma Taff
Teacher
Anthony Hooper
El Dorado High School
Team
Nate Tierney, Brayden Batiste, Payton Morford
Teacher
Mark Switzer
Jasper County High School
Team
Hunter Cleveland & Hollie Prentiss
Teacher
Tyson Harty
Clearview Regional High School
Team
Riley Cassidy, Madelena DiFabio, Brooke Klipstein
Teacher
Mark Mozzachio
Walnut Hills High School
Team
Lael Ingram & Lydia Goetz
Teacher
Samantha Gerwe-Perkins
Dublin Coffman High School
Team
Broderick Farver, Lain Hosken, Kathryn Hawthorne
Teacher
Amanda Blackburn
Hillcrest High School
Team
Alex Kepler, Kendyl Tolliver, Chloe Cochran, Haylyn Baker, Akarius Staten-Ballance, Yeniva Gonzalez, Alexis Webster
Teacher
Rae Snobl
New Caney High School
Team
Christian Magallon & Luis Lindero
Teacher
Charles Billinglsey
Batavia High School
Team
Leo Beck & Ryan Anderson
Teacher
Jennifer Carpenter
Inglemoor High School
Team
Isaiah Paltep
Teacher
Katrina Allemeier
PSA Contest #3 “Nope”
Prompt
Audience: Youth grades 6-12
Format: Short Film / Narrative
Social pressure is real. Create a PSA that encourages your peers to speak up and say no.
You must dramatize the following scene: A student is feeling peer pressured to get into a vehicle with some friends that may be impaired. How does the student get out of this situation?
If you choose to use a vehicle in your PSA, it must be stationary. It can’t be moving. It can’t be running. And as a reminder, if you choose to show drugs or alcohol in your video, they must be fake props, not real drugs or real alcohol.
1st Place: Cathedral High School
Team
Manuel Ramirez, Matthew Conde-Ayala, Animo Castaneda, Jayden Portillo, Abraham Salas
Teacher
Br. Roch Dufresne
2nd Place: Unity Cottage School
Team
Caitlin Tierney
Teacher
Erin Tierney
3rd Place: Central High School
Team
Carter Shipman & Max Brown
Teacher
Josh Cantrell
Honorable Mention | “Nope”
Granada High School
Team
Christopher Cacciatore, Oliver Quihuis, Alexander Operin, and Henrikch Aguisando
Teacher
Alexandria Janda
St. Francis Borgia High School
Team
Caden Carroll, Justin Mort, Hunter Reinberg, Brandon Jones, Drew Fischer
Teacher
Emily Brasher
Paul Laurence Dunbar High School
Team
Nora Morgan
Teacher
Wendy Turner
Eastwood High School
Team
James Wilson & Sebastian Perez Navarro
Teacher
Stephanie Delgado-Rangel
Portola High School
Team
Ethan Kim, Emma Nguyen, Jongho Jung
Teacher
Tina Murphy
Batavia High School
Team
Will Hampson & Andrew Parker
Teacher
Jennifer Carpenter
Canyon View High School
Team
Frank Villanueva & Ethan Yi
Teacher
Jeff Seeker
Kathrine L. Albiani Middle School
Team
Emma Bruns, Emily Ballou, Jordyn Janowicz
Teacher
Donna McNeel
Lee’s Summit North High School
Team
Jake Apgar, Sam Mazariegos, Antonio Navato, Ayden Nichols, Max Pettegrew
Teacher
Terry Durnell