Ngarimu video competition rules and entry requirements

Learn about entering the Ngarimu video competition.

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  • Teachers and Kaiako

The 2023 Ngarimu Video competition opens Monday 1st May 2023 and closes Friday 8th September 2023.

Eligibility

  • This competition is open to students and ākonga in years 7-13.
  • You can submit your project as an individual, a team, or a kura.
  • Any MoE staff member whose tamariki is entering this competition needs to make the conflict of interest known to Ngarimu.Scholarship@education.govt.nz
  • You must be enrolled at a registered school/kura, or group of registered schools/kura, such as a Community of Learning | Kāhui Ako.
  • If you are home-schooled, you will need to provide a copy of your Certificate of Exemption from enrolment at a registered school.
  • Each video must have one lead producer to serve as the main point of contact.

Recognition and prizes will be given to the lead producer and all those listed as co-producers on the entry form.

Payments of prizes will be made to the school/kura bank account that the Ministry has on file. The school/kura is then responsible for ensuring payment is distributed accordingly. 

Note: The only compensation for submitting a video is the opportunity to be awarded a prize. No other payments will be made in relation to the competition.

How to enter

  • To enter the competition, complete the required forms and email them to us at Ngarimu.Scholarship@education.govt.nz, along with a link to your video.
  • Make sure the email has ‘Ngarimu Video Competition Submission’ in the subject line.
  • The whole entry form must be completed when you upload your video for it to be eligible.
  • You must also include a transcript of your video as a document and attach it to the email.
  • You also need to post a physical copy on a flash drive.

Students and ākonga should keep at least one copy of their video. The Ngarimu VC & 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board and the Ministry of Education are not responsible for any lost videos. 

Required forms

Uploading your video to YouTube - Unlisted

To upload your finished video as an unlisted version to YouTube, please follow the steps below:

  1. Sign into your YouTube account or follow the instructions to create one
  2. Go to ‘Your Channel’ and select the ‘upload video’ button
  3. Click the ‘select files’ button and choose your video
  4. Fill in the video details, elements, and checks
  5. On the visibility tab, select the ‘unlisted’ option
  6. Once uploaded, select the options button (three vertical dots) and click on ‘Get shareable link’
  7. Paste the link into your video submission email – only those with the link will be able to access your video

Need help uploading?

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us by email at Ngarimu.Scholarship@education.govt.nz.

Sending a physical copy

You also need to either post a physical copy of your video on a flash drive to the address below, or upload your video to an online file sharing database (e.g., Dropbox).

If you are posting a flash drive, please send to:

Attention TeachNZ
The Ngarimu Video Competition
Ministry of Education
1 The Terrace, Mezzanine floor
Wellington 6011

The posted flash drive will need to be post marked on or prior to the competition closing date to be eligible.

What to include in your entry

1) Video

All videos must begin with a 10-second full screen ‘title screen’ that includes the following information:

  1. Lead producer’s name
  2. School name
  3. School location
  4. Title of video
  5. Total running time (not more than 5 minutes).

The length of the video should be approximately 3 minutes and not exceed 5 minutes (including opening and closing credits, references and music etc.) 

Your submission should seek to evoke emotion and highlight your storytelling and research abilities; your stories could be humorous, sad or academically informative.

Your video could draw on the characteristics of the Māori Battalion, Māori leadership, ingenuity, resourcefulness, bravery, etc.

2) Subtitles and transcripts

All videos must have captions and be accompanied by a transcript file to make them accessible.

Simply put, a transcript is a time stamped text version of everything that is being said and other significant events that happen in the video. Transcripts for entries in Te Reo Māori must be in both Māori and English. The transcript should be provided in a separate document.

Captions are displayed on screen in real time as the video plays, and describe what is being said, and other significant events that happen in the video.

Intellectual property

Content must be original. Entrants are solely responsible for their own entries and the consequences for submitting them. 

Entries can be documentaries, films, animations or music clips. They can be funny, sad, serious or academic. 

References to all information presented in the video must give credit to the original source.

No copyrighted materials (music, images, etc.) may be used for this competition unless you own the copyright, have a license to use the material or other necessary permission.

Use of traditional Māori Battalion songs is permitted. 

Plagiarism of any kind will result in disqualification.

Appropriate themes and content

While war themes are permitted, content must be appropriate for viewing by year 7 students and ākonga. 

Content must not:

  1. promote illegal behaviour
  2. support racial, religious, sexual or other invidious prejudice
  3. advocate sexual or violent exploitation
  4. violate rights established by law or agreement
  5. invade the privacy of any person, or
  6. be otherwise offensive or inappropriate
  7. contain nudity, profanity, dangerous stunts, or illicit drug use
  8. promote hate and prejudice
  9. injure the name and reputation of your school, the Ngarimu VC & 28th Māori Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board, any Māori Battalion Company, Iwi Māori, or the Ministry of Education, any other entity and /or any person.  

The judges in their sole discretion may refuse any entry at any time if the video content is deemed inappropriate. 

Languages

Participants can submit entries into both the Te Reo Māori and/or English categories.

Please include subtitles for any languages other than Te Reo Māori or English. Videos may have no dialogue at all, and that is okay.

Themes

This year’s video competition kaupapa/topics is not limited to the Second World War – World War One research material and information will also be considered for this competition.

Choose from one of these options:

  1. Choose a tipuna or member of the Māori Battalion (preferably from your rohe because you might need permission from the family to share this person’s story or stories). Tell us a story (or a few) about this person. Was this person; famous, funny, witty, clever, mischievous, a leader, heroic, a spy, a gunner, infantry, an officer, a medic, a nurse, intelligence officer, engineer, a storyteller themselves? What makes this person a tāonga to you or your whānau, your kura or community, your hapū or iwi?
  2. The Māori Battalion was made up of five companies A, B, C, D and HQ. Choose a company or event and tell us how that added to the Māori Battalion’s reputation as formidable soldiers. Why is this unit or event important to your rohe? How did it contribute to the Māori Battalion’s reputation?
  3. Explore and analyse the contribution of Māori to the war effort in the First and/or Second World War from a contemporary view. Be critical in your thinking about the price of citizenship. Contemplate the lessons of this history in a contemporary context. Why did your rohe support or not support the war effort?

Who can help

While involving the community is part of team building (manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, tūakana – tēina, tiakitanga, me ētahi atu), this project should be led by students and ākonga. 

No professional assistance is allowed.

Adults may assist with production but are limited to verbal guidance only.

Adults can also be actors, camera operators, or interviewees – but they must not otherwise contribute to the content, or the editing or production of the content.

What criteria are entries graded against?

The judges’ decision will be based on the following marking criteria and weighting:

Criteria

Weighting

Ability to tell the story (how can the viewer get a sense of the Māori Battalion member or unit being researched)

10

Ability to evoke an emotional response

10

Entertaining or thought provoking

10

Original artistic flair

10

Accuracy of research

10

Total Maximum Score

50

What happens to the videos after the competition is complete

Ownership of the underlying intellectual property of the project remains with the entrant, with the following exceptions:

  1. Entrants grant The Ngarimu VC & 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board and/or the Ministry of Education the right to use their names, photographs, statements, quotes, testimonials, and video submissions for advertising, publicity, educational contexts and promotion in accordance with the purpose of the competition without notification or further compensation. 
  2. The Ministry of Education and the Ngarimu VC & 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board will have unrestricted right to use, edit, publish, broadcast, stream any or all of the video entries as well as the name, photographs, statements, biographical information and likeness of any or all participants in accordance with the purpose of the competition with-out further approval or compensation.
  3. Entrants also grant the Ngarimu VC & 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board and the Ministry of Education the right to use, reproduce, reprint, distribute, perform, and/or display the entrant’s project video in accordance with the purpose of the competition without further compensation or notification to the entrant.
  4. The Ngarimu VC & 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board and / or the Ministry of Education maintains the right to reproduce, reprint, distribute, perform, display, or exhibit the project, or parts of the video, in accordance with the purpose of the competition, on their website, at conferences, or at any other venues.
  5. By accepting the prizes, winners agree to hold the Ngarimu VC & 28th (Māori) Battalion Memorial Scholarship Fund Board and the Ministry of Education employees harmless against any and all claims and liability arising out of use of such prizes.
  6. Award winners assume all liability for any injury or damage caused from participation in the competition or the use/redemption of any prize.
  7. Entrants agree to be bound by the official competition rules and decisions of the judges.

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