Announcing Impaired Driving Student Video Contest Winners

Announcing Impaired Driving Student Video Contest Winners

By: Melissa Shear, Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor

This winter, the Office of Attorney General and its partners held the first Impaired? No Time to Drive high school student video contest and is pleased to announce three winning videos.

Videos were judged based on their content, creativity, originality, and how they communicated to peers the important message about the dangers and consequences of driving while impaired. Every student who submitted a video, whether individually or as part of a team, will earn 10 community service hours that will apply to their graduation requirements.

Please join the Office of Attorney General and its partners in congratulating the following winners:

First Place

The team from Phelps Ace High School: Shane Coffen, Yanna Contee-Jones, Kevin Gray, and Tyler Knowles, won first place, and in recognition of their great video won a $300 visa gift card. Watch their video here.

Second Place

The team from Duke Ellington High School: Scout Gould, Ella Anderson Grant, Winifred Spector and Alice Wodatch won second place, and in recognition of their great video won a $200 visa gift card. Watch their video here.

Third Place

Jason Mejia won third place, and in recognition of his great video won a $75 visa gift card. Watch his video here.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Judges

The judges were members of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Group’s (JJAG) Youth Leaders in Action youth committee, Kyla Woods, Aaron White, Mylan Barnes, Nataly Del Valle, and Rondel Jordan.

The JJAG is an advisory commission established under the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act (JJDPA) and is responsible for monitoring and supporting the District’s progress in addressing the four core requirements of the JJDPA: deinstitutionalization of status offenders, separation of youth from adults in secure facilities, removal of youths from adult jails and lockups, and addressing disproportionate minority contact within the juvenile justice systems.

Thank you, judges!

Partners

Impaired? No Time to Drive is a collaboration between OAG, the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration, Washington Regional Alcohol Program, District Department of Transportation, DC Public Schools, and the George Washington University Hospital.

Thank you, partners!