New Westminster Secondary School's dry grad got a recent $1,000 boost.
The school came third out of 48 entries from across the province in BCAA's dry grad video challenge.
"The (NWSS entry) demonstrated that we all have choices on whether we are going to drink and drive," said Marguerite Murray, sales centre manager at BCAA's New West location. "That's the annual theme - create something that discourages teens from drinking and driving."
Last fall, Grade 12 students were challenged to produce videos urging fellow teens to never drive under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
From humorous to hard-hitting, graphic to abstract, 48 videos were submitted to the challenge, the BCAA website states.
"The (New West) video demonstrates an outcome of impaired driving and an alternative. It displays different scenarios where students had choices.
Remember we all have a choice, take the right route and choose not to drink and drive," NWSS director Bogdan Kondriuk said on the BCAA website.
The finalists were narrowed to the top five, and the videos were placed online for public voting. More than 6,500 online votes were submitted and the top-five videos received 23,000 views on YouTube.
George Elliot Secondary in Winfield, B.C. came first, and second place went to Hugh McRoberts Secondary School in Richmond.
NWSS students Rai Tripolone, Micheal Semple, Aleksey Kalachinskiy, Andreea Micas, Arsenije Subotic, Darius Yik, Ivan Biriukov, Jonathan Lopez, Mohammed Golden Olympia, Nebeyu Teshome, Raveena Garcha, Russ Hamilton, Simirit Kainth and Upendra Subaghra were also involved in the project.
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