2023 Youth Bias Taskforce Student Competition Submission Form

New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights is launching the third annual student competition Youth Bias Task Force Student Art Competition with this year's focus being "Combating Bias Through Art". Young people throughout New Jersey are encouraged to create and submit artwork and videos that will raise awareness around the need to counter the recent rise in bias incidents and inspire others across the state to stand up to hate in their communities.

Eligible Entrants

Open to New Jersey residents age 25 and under
One submission per student or student group per category.

Timeline

Accepting from: 12:00 am on September 15, 2023
Deadline: 11:59 pm on December 31, 2023
Competition Exhibit Reveal and Awards Ceremony: April 2024

Please identify whether an individual or a group submission*

If this is a group, please provide group name

If you are a group submission, please identify ALL members. Any member under age 18 must provide parent/legal guardian information in the following format:

Member name, age, school, town, and county
Parent/legal guardian name, phone number, and email address
All members must provide a Consent Form/Statement of Release

Participant's First and Last Name*

Participant's' Email Address*

example@example.com

Participant's Phone Number*

Age*

Gender

Ethnicity

Race

Please identify your grade level*

Name of School/Institution*

Town*

County*

Have you received assistance from any teacher, school administrator, parent, guardian, or other community member in developing your project?*

YesNoNot Applicable

Would you like to nominate a teacher, parent, guardian, or other community member in recognition of their support for your submission?*

YesNoNot Applicable

If yes, please describe their assistance to your project.

Name of teacher, parent, guardian, or other community member.

Title of teacher, parent, guardian, or other community member.

Email address of teacher, parent, guardian, or other community member.

example@example.com

Phone number of teacher, parent, guardian, or other community member.

Identify Submission Theme*

Identify Submission Category*

Artwork30-90 Second Video with Script

An individual (or group) statement (not to exceed 250 words) must accompany all artwork design and video submissions. The statement should explain how the artwork design or video submission interprets standing up to hate in your communities.*

0/250

If you are under 18 years of age, your legal guardian/parent must review and complete the remainder of the form with you.

Legal Guardian/Parent information:*

Legal Guardian/Parent Name

Legal Guardian/Parent Phone Number*

Legal Guardian/Parent Email Address*

example@example.com

I/we certify that I/we am NOT related to any employee of the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, YWCA Bergen County, Department of Labor & Work Force Development’s Strategic Planning & Outreach Unit, Liberty State Park, and/or Montclair Art Museum.*

YesNo

I/we certify that all materials constituting my/our submission, including all slogans, artwork, videos, and any embedded music, beat, narrative, poetry, spoken word, song, dance, or acting, are my/our original work and that no other person or entity has any rights to these materials.*

YesNo

Submission Upload Instructions.

All submissions must be named in the following format.

For Art: 2022_Art_Last Name_First Name

For Video Submission (also include the script to your video):

2022 _Video_Last Name_ First Name

2022_Video Script_Last Name_First Name

VIDEO SUBMISSION THAT DO NOT INCLUDE A SCRIPT WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Please note that accepted file types for Art are Word, PDF, Tiff, JPEG, and PNG; for Video AVI, MP4,and MOV

High Resolution: 300 DPI, 2550 x 3300 px

FILES NOT PROPERLY NAMED WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Please upload your submission here. ALL FILES MUST INCLUDE A FIRST AND LAST NAME. FILES NOT PROPERLY LABELED WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.*

I/we certify that we have (each) completed the Consent Form/Statement of Release. Reminder: If this is a group project, each teammate must fill out an individual Release Form for the group project to be an eligible submission.*

YesNo

Please upload Consent Form/Release Statements(s) here. Multiple consent forms should be uploaded as ONE PDF.*

You must click "Submit" in the green box to complete your application to the student competition and recieve a confirmation email.

If you are unable to upload your project, due to size limit you can also submit a thumb drive to the following address:

New Jersey Division on Civil Rights
31 Clinton Street, 3rd Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Attn: Youth Ambassador Program Coordinator

The thumb drive must include the following information:

File Types Allowed: Word, PDF, Image(PDF, Tiff, JPEG, PNG formats only) and Video(AVI, MP4,and MOV formats only)
Signed Release Form in PDF format
Word Document containing:

Statement
Name, Age, Phone Number, Email Address
School, Town, County
If under age 18, must provide Parent/Legal Guardian’s Name, Phone Number and Email Address

Should you have any questions, please email us at communityrelations@njcivilrights.gov.