The Benguet Youth Competition has been launched anew to celebrate the creativity of the young people of the province.
Organized by the Governor’s Office, the Local Youth Development Office, and the Sangguniang Kabataan Benguet Program, interested youth aged 15 to 30 years old can join in the contest categories such as film making, photography, poster making, and creative writing.
The short film making has two categories: DSLR or camcorder category and the camera phone category. Participants in both categories must be in groups of three to four.
The theme for the DSLR category is tourism within the province while the phone category theme is “Kabataan ng Benguet, kaibigan ng kalikasan”.
Both categories should run for a maximum of seven minutes and can be in English, Filipino or vernaculars but with subtitles. The filming is from Oct. 4 to Nov. 3.
In the photography contest, entries featuring tourism sites in the province must have been taken from January to October. Pictures should be submitted in S8R or A4, 6 PW, 203 x 305, 8 x 12 inches format.
For the poem writing competition, participants must write at least three stanzas, minimum of four lines in every stanza. The theme would dwell on the importance of family.
In poster making, the art work must focus on the theme “Kabataan ng Benguet, kaibigan ng kalikasan.” Accepted materials are crayons, pastel, colored pencil, water color, acrylic in one-fourth illustration board.
All entries must not have been previously submitted to another organization or production or distributed commercially and entered in other contests and it should be all original. The deadline of submission is on Nov. 3.
Participants may visit the Local Youth Development Office at the Capitol for submission of entries or send to [email protected] with the following: school ID, TIN, cedula or voter’s ID; barangay certificate of residency; registration in the LYDO office, and two ID pictures taken from 2019 to 2021.
For more information, contact the PIO-Benguet or the Governor’s Office-Benguet Facebook accounts. – Ofelia C. Empian
