The 2012-2013 World of 7 Billion student video contest, hosted by Population Education, challenged high school students to connect population growth to one of three current global issues - food security, wildlife habitat, or the global status of women and girls. The winners have been announced and include 13 video PSAs from across the three categories with the winning videos in each awarded cash prizes of $1,000 for the first place winner, $500 for second place winner, and $250 for honorable mention prizes.

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Katherine Salvatori of Osprey, Florida won an Honorable Mention in the category of the Global Status of Women and Girls with her video, “Women’s World Becomes Brighter Through Education”.

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Over 550 submissions were received from all over the world - including 37 U.S. states, one Canadian province, and 17 countries abroad. To select winners out of the hundreds of videos, 21 judges, all experts in the category topic or video/film production, scored the top-ten finalists in each category. The contest had a great turnout and the quality of the videos exceeded expectations - the creative ideas and effort put forth by the students was impressive!

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All of the winning videos can be viewed here http://www.worldof7billion.org/student_video_contest/winners along with profiles of the student filmmakers, and a list of our judges. Population Connection wants to thanks to all of the students (and their teachers) who entered and crafted such outstanding video messages on population issues.