Chelsey Goetz | Contributing Writer

Do you love being creative? Do you find enjoyment working hands-on with technology? If you answered yes to both of these questions, then get your camera, computer, and iPad out because it’s that time of year again for the Teaching and Learning with Technology Center’s (TLTC) annual contest, Show Us Your Stuff. For the seventh year in a row, the TLTC is holding the contest in hopes of showing off Buena Vista University’s (BVU) and the surrounding areas’ brightest and most creative talent.

“We have a lot of resources available these days,” TLTC Manager Jay Benedict said. “And we decided this contest would be a good incentive for anybody to learn something new. We just wanted to sponsor something that was fun and that allowed people to be creative.”

Students, staff, alumni, and anybody from the community are allowed to submit entries in three different categories. By including Storm Lake and the surrounding towns, the TLTC hopes this contest will create even closer ties with the community, especially with high school students. It also allows entrants the opportunity for more enhanced experience with media technology and their work to be publicly acknowledged.

“It gives high school students an area tied to the University which definitely doesn’t hurt,” Benedict added. “I think it would be really neat to see some high school students come in and produce something that would blow everybody else out of the water.”

Not only will the winners’ submissions be shown off on the BVU website, but the top three winners in each category will receive an Amazon gift card.

Categories include Static, such as photography or graphic designs, Multimedia, which includes audio, video, and music storytelling, and iPad, meaning your masterpiece was created and edited on this wonderfully enhanced piece of equipment.

David Ekstrom, a senior digital media major and last year’s winner of the Static category, encourages people to submit their work.

“I think people should submit their creations because it is a great opportunity to show your creativity and perhaps inspire others to create something.”

Submissions will be accepted until Friday, April 26 at midnight, and winners will be announced on May 3. So, get your thinking cap on and create! For more information and official contest rules, check out the Show Us Your Stuff webpage.

Courtesy of the TLTC