Stormwater Partners of Southwest Washington is proud to announce the winners of the fourth annual Students for Clean Water Video Contest. The contest, for middle and high school students in Clark County, encourages students to think about their impacts on and connections to local streams. Students are asked to show their creativity by producing short videos about their connection to water or ways to protect water. This year more than 65 students from 12 Clark County middle and high schools submitted videos. A panel selected nine winners from 35 finalists. Five $500 first place and five $100 honorable mention prizes are awarded to: 

• “Protecting water in our community”, long video category
  • First place: “Water Powered World” by Andrew G. Locke
  • Honorable mention: “Stormboy Saves the Day” by Greyson Halstead and Bohdan Moskovitz
• “Protecting water in our community”, short video category
  • First place: “Dangers of Car Oil” by Oliver Gael Murray and Gavin Lee Parks
  • Honorable mention: “Keeper of the Stream” by Elle Lutz and Fern Rucker
• Community storytelling category 
  • First place: “Celilo Reservoir” by Olivia Droubay
  • Honorable mention: “Clean Water for All” by Joseph Leon Jr.
• “Clean water for all” category
  • First place: “iTuna” by Alexander Fry and Anikait Antal
  • Honorable mention: “PFAS in Vancouver” by Isabel McCauley, Neal Langford, Molly Pendleton, Lauren Knight and Isis Barca
• People’s choice category
  • First place: “Clean Water for All” by Joseph Leon Jr.
  • Honorable mention: “How to Keep Our Water Clean” by Malosi William Yeager and Gage Charles Smith

Winning videos will be shown before the City of Vancouver’s Friday Night Movies in the park on July 19 at Nikkei Neighborhood Park. The videos will also be featured on Stormwater Partners social media profiles and can be seen at stormwaterpartners.com/video-contest. 

Local businesses Consor Engineering, MacKay Sposito, Olson Environmental, Otak, and Northwest Watersheds LLC sponsored the $500 first place cash prizes. Nonprofits Fourth Plain Forward, iUrban Teen, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, Queer Youth Resource Center and Watershed Alliance of SW Washington sponsored the $100 honorable mention cash prizes. The Liberty Theater in Camas supported the contest by running promotional videos before movie screenings. 

Stormwater Partners of Southwest Washington is a coalition of local jurisdictions and organizations including Clark County and the cities of Battle Ground, Camas, La Center, Ridgefield, Vancouver and Washougal. Learn more at stormwaterpartners.com. 

For information about road and park projects, closures, opportunities for community input, and more, residents can follow Public Works on X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook and Instagram and view information on Nextdoor. 

CONTACT
Kaley McLachlan-Burton, communications manager
360.946.7584
kaley.mclachlan-burton@clark.wa.gov