Adobe Foundation Announces Winners of the Third Annual Adobe Youth Voices Awards
June 23 2014 - 4:01PM
Business Wire
Teens From 50 Countries Use Digital Media to Express Views on
Social Issues
The Adobe Foundation today announced the winners of the third
annual Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) Awards, a global, online
competition inviting students ages 13-19 to use digital media to
express their vision for driving positive change in their
communities. A record 2,400 students from 50 countries submitted
projects this year on social issues including: bullying, body
image, and climate change. First and second place winners were
chosen by a luminary panel of judges, while Audience Award winners
were determined by 200,000 votes cast online.
“Since its inception, AYV has impacted the lives of more than
190,000 students around the world. It’s empowered them to make a
difference in their communities, and build the digital media making
skills that will help them get ahead,” said Michelle Crozier Yates,
director, corporate responsibility, Adobe. “With what they’ve
learned, 88% of AYV youth tell us they feel confident about their
ability to ideate, collaborate, adapt and express their point of
view. 95% believe creativity is important to their future success.
We look forward to making the AYV program even more globally
accessible.”
AYV Award winners are chosen in seven categories: animation,
documentary, photo essay, music video, narrative, poetry and
campaign poster. Youth can submit projects individually or as teams
working with an AYV educator. First and second place winners are
named in each of the seven categories by a
diverse panel of judges, including luminaries working in
art, film, and other creative fields, alongside AYV educators,
student alumni, and Adobe representatives.
“Everyone today has the tools to express themselves. This
combination of digital tools and self-expression is very empowering
and can create powerful change. I am honored to be an AYV judge and
to have the opportunity to support these young media makers,” said
Patrick Coyne, editor and designer of Communication Arts magazine
and AYV 2014 judge.
The public determines an Audience Award winner in each category
by voting for their favorite projects online. This year, the 21
winning projects were chosen from a pool of 142 finalists, and over
200,000 public votes were cast.
AYV Award winners and their affiliated schools and organizations
will each receive a range of prizes, including donations of Samsung
Galaxy Tablets, copies of Adobe CS Production Premium Suite, a
1-year Adobe Creative Cloud membership and a monetary donation to a
charity of their choice. Winners are showcased on the Adobe Youth
Voices website.
The 2014 winners are:
Animation
- First Place: Hunger’s Core, Christine
Chung, Salwa Majoka, Northview Heights Secondary School,
Canada
- Second Place: Train of Life, Tess
Denham, San Marino High School, USA
- Audience Award: TechJunk, Sesh
Sadasivam, Abhishek Krishna, Inavamsi B. Enaganti, Sri Kumaran
Children’s Home - CBSE, India
Documentary
- First Place: Victim, Brandon Charlton,
Kennedy Houston, Maysles Documentary Center, USA
- Second Place: International Boulevard,
Zoe Yi, Rebecca Dharmapalan, Oakland School for the Arts, USA
- Audience Award: Support, Ziyang Ding,
Tianyao Xu, The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of
China, China
Music Video
- First Place: Patience, Yvan Gonzalez,
Seven Trees Community Center, USA
- Second Place: Let Me Dream, Sebastian
Tuma, Tsote Valashiya, Shriyansi Khanal, Immanuel Yeboah, Daniel
Mandache, Spotlight, United Kingdom
- Audience Award: Love Mission, Tautvydas
Marcinkevicius, Petar Karapenev, Krzysztof Wlodarek, Abdalla Ali,
Sude Simsek, Luke Wallace-Esnard, Dikembe Cabey-Lee, Amina Azong,
Anya O’Mahony, Sandra Mikosinska, The Lammas School, United
Kingdom
Narrative
- First Place: Vanished, Vanessa Fuentes,
Alicia Garchitorena, MACLA, USA
- Second Place: Aspaunity, Josh
Gutierrez, Lizbeth Cisneros, Denise Panuco, Jesus Gonzalez,
Jonathan Carrasco, Mt. Pleasant High School, USA
- Audience Award: Get a Life, Bianca
Toderean, Paul Turean, “Alexandru Papiu Ilarian” High School Dej,
Romania
Photo Essay
- First Place: Inner Journey, Jihyeon
Park, Irvington High School, USA
- Second Place: Little Place on Earth,
Agata Mroczek, Fundacja 5Medium, Poland
- Audience Award: Adams’ Peak- a
Pilgrimage for Harmony, Prabhashana Meegammana, Dilan
Wickramakeerthi, Shilpa Sayura Foundation, Sri Lanka
Poetry
- First Place: Life, Mihai Tiu, Colegiul
National "Ecaterina Teodoroiu", Romania
- Second Place: Destination: Earth!,
Joseph Steve Jiménez, Randall Quesada, Casa de la Juventud Mora,
Costa Rica
- Audience Award: We are…, Gyanna Adino,
Joanah Diala, Randolph Massachusetts, USA
Poster Campaign
- First Place: Love the Diversity, Sayoka
Ariga, New Albany High School, USA
- Second Place: Held Back by Stress, Max
Stevens, South Carleton High School, Canada
- Audience Award: Be Creative, Abdullah
Al-Dahshan, Hashemite University, Jordan
About Adobe Youth Voices
Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) is the Adobe Foundation’s global
initiative to ignite Creative Confidence in youth by using digital
media to express their views on social issues. Through programs
like AYV, and by increasing creativity in education, Adobe believes
we will better equip young people to be the problem solvers,
critical thinkers and leaders of tomorrow. To learn more about AYV,
its point of view on creativity in education and how you can be
involved, please visit http://youthvoices.adobe.com/.
About the Adobe Foundation
The Adobe Foundation is a 501(c)(3) private foundation created
and funded by Adobe Systems Incorporated to leverage human,
technological and financial resources to drive social change and
community improvements.
About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For
more information, visit www.adobe.com.
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Adobe Systems IncorporatedLinda McNair,
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