ETC Announces "Show Us Your ETC" Student-Video Challenge Enthusiasm, talent, and creativity - that's the ETC in ETC's "Show Us Your ETC" contest. ETC challenging students to demonstrate their 'ETC' in an original video. The three top videos will each win an ETC lighting control console for their U.S. high school, college, or university. The first-prize winner will get to choose between an Eos, Ion, or Element console. The second and third-prize winners will choose from the remaining two consoles. The homemade videos will be judged on their "ETC-ness" and use of ETC as a theme and motif. The videos - under five minutes in length - will allow for a lot of artistic license. Contest creator and ETC IT specialist Jon Ironside has posted video samples (he's the bearded guy starring in them, too): "These are examples of what I thought might happen when you crossed ETC with popular viral videos, but I'm sure that all the students out there with a passion for theatre and lighting will have better stuff. I'm excited to see what fun, creative things they come up with." Students can start uploading video entries in October, via YouTube. The final day to enter will be February 21, 2012. During the entry submission time, the public will be able to view and vote for their video favorites. Their vote will be combined with the votes of contest judges Ironside, ETC CEO Fred Foster, and industry luminary Richard Pilbrow. ETC will announce the winners at its student session at USITT 2012, in Long Beach, California. The company will also show all of the semi-finalist videos, whose creators will get exclusive ETC swag and copies of Pilbrow's new book A Theatre Project. The contest details are at the URL listed below. 
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