Video Essay Scholarship Contest

TFND’s Video Essay Scholarship Project is back for a very special edition honoring the 10th anniversary of North Dakota’s Smoke-Free Air Law.

Here’s how it works!

• Create a 1–3 minute YouTube video based on one of these Tobacco Free ND topics.
• The importance of maintaining the state’s strong smoke-free air law.
• The smoke-free air law has been in place for 10 years! Many of the entrants in this contest probably don’t remember the “singers in a smoky room” restaurants. Interview your family, friends, and community members about what it was like when there was smoking in public, indoor spaces.
• Every single county voted in favor of the smoke-free air law in 2012, yet special interest groups are the ones trying to overturn it. How would you educate the community about what is going on?
• Secondhand smoke is dangerous to everyone exposed to it, and causes billions of dollars in healthcare costs nationally every year, yet it receives only a fraction of the attention that other tobacco dangers do. Show us why #SecondhandSmokeisNoJoke

2. Email your YouTube video entry, along with all completed forms attached, by 11:59PM on November 28, 2022 to andrew@tfnd.org. The winner will receive a $1,500 college scholarship! TFND will present the prize and take photos with the winner prior to December 31, 2022, if possible.

Here are some examples of submissions from past years!