2025 School PSA Video Contest
Theme: The Digital Double Life 🎭
Region 10, Crime Stoppers of North Texas, and the FBI Dallas Citizens Academy Alumni Association (CAAA) have partnered to host a Public Service Announcement (PSA) video contest for high school students across Region 10. The 2025 The Digital Double Life (#digitaldoublelife) campaign aims to educate the public about the seriousness of internet safety, bring awareness to the real harm students can experience, and amplify student voices on public safety issues.
In addition to educating school staff, students, and community members about what "Threats to Life" look like in the everyday home, neighborhood, and school, the campaign also seeks to inform students and the public about the severity and repercussions of these actions as well as how to ask for help and report unsafe/harmful online encounters.
The teams' PSA submissions should address one, some, or all of these campaign focal points:
Catfishing Tactics Used by Online Predators
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated personas, bots and deepfakes
Psychological and emotional impacts of digital addiction, escapism, and/or isolation from real in-person connection
Psychological and emotional impacts of Social Media perfectionism (online curated identities versus real lives) and maintaining a "perfect" online persona.
How Criminals use fake personas to scam, hack, or commit fraud.
Important Dates
Launch Date - Jan 21, 2025
Deadline Submission - Feb 28, 2025
Judging Period - March 1 - March 26, 2025
Notification of Top 10 Finalists - March 27, 2025
YouTube Campaign Period - March 28- April 4, 2025
Winning Teams Announcement - April 7, 2025
Awards Ceremony - April 24, 2025, 7 PM, Richardson, Texas
Official Rules
The contest is open to all Region 10 students in grades 9-12. Each team will consist of ONE TO FIVE STUDENTS and a TEACHER SPONSOR who will assist the team as needed and be responsible for submitting all contest forms and the video PSA entry. Students can only be on one team. Teachers may sponsor more than one team.
Entries must be 60-90 seconds (including credits) and only contain original and non-copyrighted material. No copy-written music, branded material, logos, etc., may be used without express written permission from the copyright or trademark holder. Please utilize technology to mask logos or names of corporations that may appear in the video, unless specific permission is granted to use logos or company names.
All team members must not attempt to include or perform video stunts, dangerous situations, or film at dangerous locations during the production of the video. The Teacher Sponsor will guide teams through the planning and filming/submission process, to ensure safety and security for all students involved in the project.
The screening committee reserves the right to disqualify any submission for any reason deemed necessary. Submitted videos will not be eligible if they contain or appear to contain:
Profane or obscene material or language
Nudity, profanity, or gratuitous violence
Endorsement of illegal drug use, alcohol abuse, prescription drug abuse, or any other illegal activity
Derogatory characterization of any person or group
Any copyrighted or trademarked materials without express written consent from the copyright or trademark holder.
Credits should include all students names, their sponsoring teacher, and the high school .