CITL, along with campus and community partners, will host the ninth annual Fall 2024 Word Festival throughout the month of October. See below to read guidelines, submit entries and see last year's winners.
The Word Festival contest involves students making short, live-action videos (20 seconds or less) in which they express the meaning of a particular word to the viewer. Words must be derived from an archived list of the New York Times Word Of The Day [PDF], and definitions must be derived and cited from , , or .
In addition, there are Foreign Language and Medical categories for classes seeking discipline-specific words. Students participating in those areas can use one of the resources listed below, or other authoritative source. Rules are the same, see guidelines below for specifics and an example video. Students in both tiers can choose to participate in the main category or the foreign language category:
Participation guidelines are below, they are short and simple - READ CAREFULLY!
Elementary division
Best Film: (TIE) by Auggie
Best Film: (TIE) by Harper
Runner-Up: by Ella
Best Creativity: by Sophia
Best Creativity Runner-Up: by Codie and AJ
Best Acting: by Juliette
Best Acting Runner-Up: by Ella
Intermediate Division
Best Film: by Pace Prioleau and Tyrell Brown
Best Film Runner-Up (tie): by Kaniah and Caedan
Best Film Runner-Up (tie): by TJ, Ellis and Carter
Best Use Of Effects: by Reagan, Jillian and James
Best Use Of Effects Runner-Up: by Si鈥檡ana, Roxy and Breanna
High School Division
Best Film: by Kaitlyn McMurray, Kennedy Fender and Rebekah Schindler
Best Film Runner-Up (tie): by Owen Greene
Best Film Third Place: by Liam Foster, Oliver Morries and Abriel-Kalob Bondurant
Honorable Mention: by Alyssa Calfee
Honorable Mention: by JD Gubb and Miles Goff
Honorable Mention: by Hunter Crist and Lillian Dunn
Best Creativity: by Luke Gaither and Jill Grim
Best Creativity Runner-Up: by Essiq Williams and Lillian Dunn
Best Use Of Effects: by Adilene Mar-Valenzuela and Madeleine Boyd
Best Use Of Effects Runner-Up: by Luciano Pugliese and Kenzi Hamilton
Best Dancing: by Ben Harvey, Jacob Davidson and William Hoff
Best Dancing Runner-Up: by Corineah Austin-Pleasant, Jerimiah Holmes and Bradley Viars
澳门老奇人论坛 Division
Sweep Award*: by Austin Tuggle
Best Film Runner-Up: by William Tyler Barrett
Best Film Third Place: by Jenna May Repass
Best Film Honorable Mention: by Dajon James, Coni Sandoval and Kris Isquith
Best Film Honorable Mention: by Isabella Walsh
* the Sweep Award is given on occasions when an entry takes top honors in all categories: Best Film,
Best Acting, Best Use of Effects, Best Creativity, etc.