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<div>Congratulations to the teens at Novi Public Library for having their video selected as Michigan's TVC winner - their video and </div>
<div>other state winners are now available for viewing on the CSLP website, <a href="https://www.cslpreads.org/2017-teen-video-challenge/">https://www.cslpreads.org/2017-teen-video-challenge/</a>, please see the attached (or below) press release.</div>
<div>Feel free to use the videos to promote summer reading to teens in your area.</div>
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Thank you,</div>
<div>Cathy Lancaster</div>
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<div>Sent from my iPad</div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">April </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">14</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">,
201</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">7</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">: The Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) announced the winners of the 201</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">7</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> Teen
Video Challenge. The Teen Video Challenge is a national competition for teens to get involved with reading and their public library's summer reading program. Winning videos were selected at the state level to be recognized as an official CSLP Teen Video
Challenge winner for 201</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">7</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">.</span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">This video competition </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">ended</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> in
its s</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">even</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">th year of encouraging teens to get involved with promoting summer reading and public libraries with a focus on the
CSLP 201</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">7</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> slogan, “</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Build a Better World</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">.”
Each participating state selected one winning video to be named the official CSLP Teen Video Challenge state winner for 201</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">7. Fourteen</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> states
and over </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">seventy</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> teens participated in the creation of these winning videos. </span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">The winners were announced the week of April 1</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">0</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">,
201</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">7</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> during the CSLP Annual Meeting held in </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Charleston,
South Carolina</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">. </span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Official CSLP Teen Video Challenge winners were named from the following states: California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Maine, </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Massachusetts, </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Michigan, </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> and</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Wash</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">ington.</span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">To view this year’s winning videos, please visit CSLP’s website at </span><a href="http://www.cslpreads.org/"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">www.cslpreads.org</span></a><span class="s5" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px; text-decoration: underline;">.</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> The
winning videos can be used by all teens and all public libraries to promote summer reading nationwide.</span></span></p>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">The winning videos </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">illustrate</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> the
diversity of our </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">nation</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> and of the teens that create them. Whether produced by an individual teen, groups of teens, a teen
library club or a teen school group, all exhibit creativity and illustrate quality work on the part of the industrious teen film makers. </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">The</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> videos
use </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">a variety of </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">references to communicate the “</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Build a
Better World</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">” idea. In addition to promoting reading and the “</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Build a Better World</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">”
slogan, it is clear from all these videos that teens value their public libraries. </span></span></p>
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art and evidence-based materials so that member libraries can provide high-quality summer reading programs at the lowest possible cost and to play a significant role in literacy initiatives.</span></p>
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