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By: CHP | Posted on: February 26th, 2009. | 
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Categories: Air and Water Quality • Disparities • Economic Issues • Education • Policies and Laws • Nutrition • Public Health • Rural Health • Transportation • Urban Issues
As part of National Public Health Week (April 6-12), Community Health Priorities, a project of the Northwest Health Foundation, is pleased to sponsor the 2009 Oregon Student Photo Contest!
With this photo contest, we are looking at different ways to show health, public health and healthy (or unhealthy) communities. Health can take many forms, and public health serves many functions. The environment in which you live, work, and play affects your health. For example, do your streets provide safe places to bike and walk? Are your schools and stores filled with negative or positive advertising? Can you find fresh fruits and vegetables at your local convenient store? Is there something polluting the air where you regularly play? Are their volunteers who help kids walk to school safely in your neighborhood?
Using the lens of your camera, we want to see what you believe makes a healthy community!
Images will be exhibited on the Community Health Priorities website and during Public Health Week in Portland at the Portland State Office Building (800 NE Oregon St.), and at the State Capitol in Salem.
The following prizes will be awarded:
1st Prize $250
2nd Prize $100
3rd Prize $50
The following themes may help you “focus” - but feel free to show us how you see it:
Creative
How can you get people to understand that health can be looked at in so many different ways?
See if you can find creative ways to portray healthy (or unhealthy) situations.
Ironic
The world around us is full of contradictions or ironies. In public health this can take many forms.
Can you capture this?
Persuasive
Can you take a picture that might persuade someone to change an unhealthy behavior? Or take on a certain healthy behavior or activity?
In other words, inspire us!
Here are the Rules:
To enter, simply attach your photo by midnight on March 31, 2009 in an e-mail to:
Participation is open to any student in Oregon, ages 13 to 18 years old.
Please provide your name, age, school, city, and information on how to contact you. You may also provide a description of your photo.
Also, to ensure that your photo doesn’t get lost, please include your name in the image’s filename (i.e. janedoe-caption_1.jpeg).
File format should be JPG format. Preferred image size is between 4 and 6 megapixels.
Limit five entries per person
By submitting a photo, you agree that this is an original photo that you have taken, and that Northwest Health Foundation’s Community Health Priorities project may use your photo for future, non-commercial purposes.
A panel of judges comprised of youth, government public health officers and employees from Oregon companies and nonprofits will select winners between April 1 and April 5.
Winners will be announced at the start of public health week (April 6 - April 12).
Good Luck!
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We’ll posting the winners later today.
We received close to 90 submissions, and they were all great. The judges had a difficult time choosing just three. The judges had some pretty strict criteria, and were blind to the name, location, age, school, etc. so there was no bias. And we also had a high school student as a judge.
We are going to have a reception during the First Thursday Art Walk in Pearl (downtown Portland) for all participants and their families. We’ll post that info as well. Stay tuned and thanks for the interest!