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New York Times: Student Video Contest

 The New York Times Learning Network has just announced the details for their Third Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Challenge.
Full details are available here. A brief description from their website follows below:
  • We’ve been publishing a Word of the Day every school day since our blog began, and in 2013, just as we were about to hit 1,000 words, we announced our first Vocabulary Video Contest.

  • We liked the results so much that we brought it back in 2014, and now, for a third time, in 2016.

  • So, along with our annual collaborators for Word of the Day — the linguists who run Vocabulary.com — we invite you to create a short video that defines or teaches any of the words in our collection, which now nearly 1,500 words strong.

  • You have until Feb. 23 at 7 a.m. Eastern time to enter. All the rules and regulations, plus some inspiration from past winners, are below.

  • As we like to remind you each year: Tenacity + a desire to edify + an enterprising nature – sloth = a beguiling result.