Connecting Classrooms to the World


Last Updated: January 15, 2013
 

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The Connected Community Contest is a team-competition, which encourages students to compare and contrast their community with rural communities around the world. Teams will research a rural community located anywhere in the world and create a video submission that demonstrates the similarities and differences between that community and their own. The grand prize will be a $2,500 grant for technology in the classroom; school assembly/screening of a Discovery Channel program; And Discovery prize packs for each member of the winning team

The contest is open to teams of students and their Teacher/Administrative sponsor from schools within the fifty (50) United States located in Rural Communities as defined by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): “city or town” that has a population of less than 50,000 inhabitants. Students must be in the 4th – 12th grade at the time of submission and in good standing. Teams must have a minimum of 3 students. Teacher/Administrative sponsors may sponsor more than one team.

Teachers/Administrative sponsors will be required to register each student team at www.discoveryeducation.com/ConnectedCommunity/ in order to enter the contest. Once registered, each sponsor will be provided with a 60 day trial login for Discovery Education services which they can use to research and create their submission. Teams will use Discovery Education Streaming digital media resources to research a rural community located anywhere in the world and create a video submission that demonstrates the similarities and differences between that community and their own.

For more information on this competition, click on www.discoveryeducation.com/ConnectedCommunity/