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FOPLA Sponsored Teen Tech Video Contest

Photo: Rheal Doucette, Ottawa Public Library

Young filmmakers, with friends and family members in tow, came together on April 19th to view the top 10 videos created by Ottawa teens for the Teen Tech Video Contest. Participants delighted in watching the film entries and hoped that they would come out as winners in the top three.

It’s a special treat for the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library to support the Teen Tech Video Awards. This contest offers local teens a unique way to share their love of reading, and allows an enormous online community to enjoy the videos produced for the competition. 

Contestants 13-18 created one-minute videos about their favourite books. Daniel Parkes Jr., an 18-year-old from Nepean, came in third and won a $75 gift certificate from Best Buy for his parody The Hunger Games – Katniss Interview. 15-year-old Sam Willets of Old Ottawa South came in second and won a Kobo eReader donated by Staples for his rendition of Lord of the Flies Trailer in claymation. The number one video, and winner of the Apple iPad, went to 17-year-old Kanata resident, Benjamin Reyes, with The Butter Battle Book Trailer, which was filmed in part at the Diefenbunker.

 To view all of this year’s submissions, please click here. And click here for photos from the awards night.

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Join the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library Association

The Friends are looking for Board and Committee members to start in June 2012

If you are interested in contributing to our libraries and becoming a member of a great team, send us an application form. 

Planned Giving for 2012

Here are some of the programs and materials the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library will be funding this year:

Across the Ottawa Public Library system:

• Gaming kiosks
• Teen Tech Week
• Teen Summer Reading
• Teen Author Fest
• Seniors programming
• Business programming
• Awesome Authors Youth Writing Contest
• Early Literacy Spaces

See a list of some of the things we'll be providing for individual branches.