GBLA SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE #1 - MEET THE TEAM!
Challenge #4 Winner: @STEMGIRLSNATION from Math and Science College Preparatory. They are coding a wellness bracelet!
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE #4 Post original video on Instagram or Twitter of GBLA girls answering the question: What are the highlights of being on a GBLA team?
Details:
For every original post, you will get an entry into the lottery for a $75 Amazon Gift card.
Challenge #3 Winner: @GirlsbuildlaNas from Palmdale Learning Plaza (with over 75 retweets with added value...and counting!)
Challenge #3: Retweet a post from another organization (or GBLA team) with a value added comment.
For every retweet you post you will get an entry into the lottery for a $75 Amazon Gift card. Competition begins .
Challenge #2 Winner: USC MAE GBLA from LAUSD / USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet
They had 377 followers at the deadline and the count keeps growing.
TIMELINE: February 22nd
Challenge: Which team has the most FOLLOWERS on Instagram by 4pm on February 22nd.Here is a helpful article to help you attract more followers (and attention for your hard work)!
Challenge #1 Winner: Girls of Stem from Crown Prep Academy -
TIMELINE: February 2nd - 8th, 2017
Prizes include team pride, expanding your digital reach, and entering a lottery to win a $75 gift card for your team.
THEME: Meet the Team!
MEDIUM: original image, video, meme, drawing, sound, artwork
WHAT TO DO:
RULES:
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE SUPPORT:
The social media challenge is to help involve your school, students, and community in your project. Social media adds awareness and documentation to bring your projects to life. Importantly, this challenge is to help make your team media savvy and effective communicators by using social media as an outlet to communicate social good.
Send us your social media handles so we can all start following each other. Remember to include your school name and link to website in your description as this is how you can build identity and brand. Lastly, start to follow organizations that will also help highlight and elevate your message!
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE #4 Post original video on Instagram or Twitter of GBLA girls answering the question: What are the highlights of being on a GBLA team?
Details:
- You can also repost past videos - here is an example of a team video from Animo Watts and Manual Arts.
- Videos should not be more than one minute - short and sweet is best.
- We can’t keep up with Snapchat but encourage you to save and post those videos on your website.
For every original post, you will get an entry into the lottery for a $75 Amazon Gift card.
Challenge #3 Winner: @GirlsbuildlaNas from Palmdale Learning Plaza (with over 75 retweets with added value...and counting!)
Challenge #3: Retweet a post from another organization (or GBLA team) with a value added comment.
- Find a tweet in your Twitter stream that looks like it would be valuable to others. Check out what it offers. If you find it valuable, retweet it to your followers, adding your own appropriate comment, hashtags and tagging others [only] if it will be of particular value to them.
- Here is a great beginners video and explanation about how to retweet and add a value-added comment to your PLN (professional learning network).
For every retweet you post you will get an entry into the lottery for a $75 Amazon Gift card. Competition begins .
Challenge #2 Winner: USC MAE GBLA from LAUSD / USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet
They had 377 followers at the deadline and the count keeps growing.
TIMELINE: February 22nd
Challenge: Which team has the most FOLLOWERS on Instagram by 4pm on February 22nd.Here is a helpful article to help you attract more followers (and attention for your hard work)!
Challenge #1 Winner: Girls of Stem from Crown Prep Academy -
TIMELINE: February 2nd - 8th, 2017
Prizes include team pride, expanding your digital reach, and entering a lottery to win a $75 gift card for your team.
THEME: Meet the Team!
MEDIUM: original image, video, meme, drawing, sound, artwork
WHAT TO DO:
- Get the team together - and pose with a poster/other material identifying your team by name!
- Tag @LAPromiseFund and use #GirlsBuildLA to be entered in the lottery
- Add a link to your webpage
- Add a message around your project
RULES:
- Only posts from February 2nd at 12:01am PST to February 8 at 11:5pm PST are eligible for this challenge
- You can repost previous posts from your account to be included in the lottery and meet the challenge timelines
- Different posts along this theme will give you multiple entries into the lottery
- Only posts from Instagram and Twitter will be valid (we are not looking at other social media formats for this challenge)
- Tag @LAPromiseFund and use #GirlsBuildLA in your posts
- Have fun!
SOCIAL MEDIA CHALLENGE SUPPORT:
The social media challenge is to help involve your school, students, and community in your project. Social media adds awareness and documentation to bring your projects to life. Importantly, this challenge is to help make your team media savvy and effective communicators by using social media as an outlet to communicate social good.
- The challenge will cover Twitter and Instagram so get your accounts up to date and ready! Check out great examples from Hawk Girls Build LA from John Hull Middle School and CDAGSGirlsBuildLA from Hawkins on Twitter and the Women of Color on Instagram at Animo Watts (note the descriptions that include links to their websites)
- Read over the lesson plan to build up your social media accounts
- Remember, every image you post will require media release forms. You are welcome to use ours (English and Spanish). Check to see if your school already has students sign media release forms as part of the back to school welcome packet.
Send us your social media handles so we can all start following each other. Remember to include your school name and link to website in your description as this is how you can build identity and brand. Lastly, start to follow organizations that will also help highlight and elevate your message!
- Search #GirlsBuildLA to find other GBLA teams to follow.
- @LAPromiseFund - LA Promise Fund is the #GirlsBuildLA parent organization (and we will follow you back!)
- @smrtgrls - AmyPoehlerSmartGirl Change The World By Being Yourself! Instagram: AmyPoehlerSmartGirls Facebook: Amy Poehler's Smart Girls Snapchat: APSmartGirls
- @technolochicas - TECHNOLOchicas is a collaboration of @ncwit & @TelevisaFoundat to raise awareness among Latinas and their families about opportunities and careers in technology
- @HiddenFigures - Hidden Figures is now playing in theaters everywhere. Directed by Theodore Melfi. Starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe. http://www.futurekatherinejohnsons.com/
- @BlackGirlsCode - Our mission is to empower young women of color ages 7-17 to embrace the current tech marketplace as builders + creators. http://www.blackgirlscode.com/
- @CSForAll - The CSforAll Consortium is a network of providers, schools, funders, & researchers working to support expanding access to CS education for all students.
- @NCWITAIC - Aspirations in Computing is a talent development program that identifies and supports young women pursuing computing and technology disciplines.
