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Pick a category & a reward

Do you make a difference in Public Service? Are you passionate about improving Education? Or do you strive to make your Community a better place? Choose 1 category to enter. Then decide what you’d like to win. Do you want to go back to school? Pick the $10,000 Capella scholarship option. More interested in giving directly to your cause? Select the $10,000 nonprofit donation.

Make a video

Use a video camera, cell phone, Flip recorder, laptop camera-whatever you can get your hands on-to tell your unique story, and have fun with it! Videos don’t need to be fancy, but they do need to be under 2 minutes, meet our submission guidelines, and be in one of YouTube’s accepted file formats. Make sure you give your video a descriptive, catchy title-voters will be more likely to watch it.

Apply

First, read the complete rules to make sure your application and video will be eligible. Then submit your video and complete the application. Once your video is up and ready for votes, we’ll let you know by email.

Promote & vote

Tell everyone you know to vote for your video. The top 10 vote-getters in each category will become finalists, so it’s important to get as many votes as you can. You can vote once per day, per category- even for your own video. Make sure to share it with all your networks too, including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Win

If your video gets enough votes to become a finalist, you could win a $10,000 scholarship or a donation to your favorite nonprofit. A committee will choose a total of 9 winners from the list of finalists-3 in each category.