The deadline has been extended to enter videos in a contest that will earn the winning group a free sail on the Adventuress.
“Right now, the odds are exceptionally good for a school or youth group to win a three-hour Sound Studies program aboard the schooner Adventuress,” joked Catherine Collins, executive director of Sound Experience, which owns the tall ship based in Port Townsend.
“The truth is that we’ve received far fewer videos than we expected.”
Collins hopes to change that in the next two weeks and is therefore officially extending the deadline, originally set for this Friday, to Friday, May 13. Videos must be received by midnight of that day.
Students and teachers have not had a chance to complete their videos due to public school district Measurements of Student Progress — or MSP — testing.
“Land to Sea — the Adventuress Video Project” was launched April 18.
Young people, teachers and parents in North Olympic Peninsula schools and youth groups are asked to create short videos that answers the question, “Why do YOU want to sail on Adventuress?”
All videos will be uploaded to Sound Experience’s YouTube Channel, where voters can “like” their favorites during the week of May 16-22.
The video with the most “likes” will win a three-hour Sound Studies sail for up to 45 students, teachers and parents in mid-June, leaving from either Port Angeles or Port Townsend.
The winner will be announced Monday, May 23.
Videos must be two minutes or less. The contest is open to Peninsula youths in grades 3-12 along with their teachers and parents.
The short videos can be sent either in DVD format to Sound Experience at P.O. Box 1390, Port Townsend, WA 98368, or uploaded electronically.
To upload a video, send an email to zach@soundexp.org for instructions.
Submitted videos may be used by nonprofit Sound Experience for future program promotion.
To learn more about this contest or how a group can sail aboard the Adventuress, visit www.soundexp.org, email programs@soundexp.org or phone Megan Addison at 360-379-0438.
