Ground Zero Youth Competition

A collaboration of music groups, skateboard event organizers and youth leaders in the community will be hosting an Instagram contest with live events for Redlands teens that include giveaway prizes of iPod shuffles, iTunes cards, In-N-Out cards and more. Local music artists Roxie Jane and NickdoG will be the emcees for the five events in 2015 and be presenting the prizes for Instagram winners. Participants ages are to be between 13 to 18 and can enter the contest by simply taking a picture of their feet on the ground somewhere in Redlands and hashtagging it with #groundzeroredlands. "Recognizable ground floors like State Street's bricks or Citrus Plaza's concrete circles by the fountain are easy to identify. We're looking for identifiable locations but also some creativity that's fun and clean" says NickdoG. "We don't want to isolate any kids that don't have a camera phone or those that don't have Instagram. In fact, it may be better if they didn't." "All teens can participate at the event contest games for the same prizes, but the bottom line is that kids need somewhere to go and something to do that's fun and safe," added Jason Dean, youth leader at Zero Thread Youth. "We have done variations of the contest like this before, but this will be the first time that we include the Instagram aspect into it. My favorite part has to be that we have kids talking to kids and the community. It's hard for kids to connect when they are in different schools; for there to be interaction and connection and community is the most exciting thing about it." Ground Zero Redlands events will be at Packinghouse Christian Academy at 9700 Alabama Street from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., on Jan. 21, Feb. 11, March 11, April 1 and May 6. Each event will include outdoor competition games, free hotdogs for the first 100 attendees, music and a Biblical message of hope. March 11 will include a concert from rock/electronic/rap duo, A Life Set Apart, and an appearance from Alisha Marie. Alisha has her own beauty, fun and fashion YouTube Channel with weekly videos reaching a million views. April 1 will feature a concert on the Wedge Mobile Stage by Roxie Jane. On May 6, Skate Church will be hosting a Skate Competition for prizes with Pro-Skateboarder, Zac Archuleta. Ground Zero Redlands YouTube videos will contain secret clues for the answers of questions for prizes at each event. [END] For January 2015 Release: Redlands Teen Instagram Contest with Events and Prizes Ground Zero Redlands to Kick Off in January REDLANDS - December 26, 2014 - A collaboration of music groups, skateboard event organizers and youth leaders in the community will be hosting an Instagram contest with live events for Redlands teens that include giveaway prizes of iPod shuffles, iTunes cards, In-N-Out cards and more. Local music artists Roxie Jane and NickdoG will be the emcee's for the five events in 2015 and be presenting the prizes for Instagram winners. Participants ages are to be between 13 to 18 and can enter the contest by simply taking a picture of their feet on the ground somewhere in Redlands and hashtag #groundzeroredlands. "Recognizable ground floors like State Street's bricks or Citrus Plaza's concrete circles by the fountain are easy to identify. We're looking for identifiable locations but also some creativity that's fun and clean" says NickdoG. "We don't want to isolate any kids that don't have a camera phone or those that don't have Instagram. In fact, it may be better if they didn't. All teens can participate at the event contest games for the same prizes, but the bottom line is that kids need somewhere to go and something to do that's fun and safe," added Jason Dean, youth leader at Zero Thread Youth. Ground Zero Redlands events will be at Packinghouse Christian Academy at 9700 Alabama Street from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m., on Jan. 21, Feb. 11, March 11, April 1 and May 6. Each event will include outdoor competition games, free hotdogs for the first 100 attendees, music and a Biblical message of hope. March 11th with include a concert rock/electronic/rap duo, A Life Set Apart, and an appearance from Alisha Marie. Alisha has her own beauty, fun and fashion YouTube Channel with weekly videos reaching a million views. April 1st will feature a concert on the Wedge Mobile Stage by Roxie Jane. On May 6th, Skate Church will be hosting a Skate Competition for prizes with Pro-Skateboarder, Zac Archuleta. Ground Zero Redlands YouTube videos will contain secret clues for the answers of questions for prizes at each event. "These events will be super fun for Redlands and beyond kids and for us as we see it all come together", says youth leader Rick Cornejo. Is this the first time this contest has taken place? there have been variations of it before but this is the first time the instagram has been included If not, do you have any pictures, contest winner names, or other information from previous competitions? Do you have any pictures for the current competition? Would it be okay to pull photos from Instagram that are labeled with the competition hashtag? we already have a few submissions What is your personal goal for this event? How many kids would you like to see involved? its all up to what the kids want to do, i think that its a platform to set up for the kids to have fun. WE would love to have a couple hundred kids, but whoever comes through we are happy with. Are you looking to continue this type of competition in the future? What is your favorite part about the contest so far? favorite part would be kids to be talking to kids and the community to have kids in different school its very hard for kids to conenct, for there to be interaction and connecting and community is the most exciting thing. I think the youtube videos that we put out before each event will have a secret word.