Media Contest For Kids Will Focus on Maine Drug Crisis

PORTLAND, Maine - The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maine and the state's attorney general are sponsoring a contest for students to create multimedia projects about Maine's drug crisis.
 
The contest is called Youth Voices on the Opiate Crisis in Maine. The sponsors are inviting students to design and make audio, visual and written projects about the crisis.
 
Sponsors say entries can take the form of videos, public service announcements, essays, poetry, podcasts, screenplays, graphic design projects and cartoons.
 
The contest is open to middle and high school students in Maine. Entries are due by May 5. Two winners will get $750.
 
An average of about one person per day dies of a drug overdose in Maine. Overdose deaths rose by almost a third in 2015 and 2016.