Help My Grandma Day Contest Results

Contest Description

The Help My Grandma Day contest comes out of the idea that when we interact with older adults everybody benefits. By encouraging acts of intergenerational service delivered with respect and care, we can make our community a better place to live.

This fall we asked younger people to pick a day to help an older adult or have an older adult help them and document it with a video. The first round of judging was completed by approximately 40 seniors at the S.A.G.E, Surrey Aboriginal Group of Elders Society and the 411 Seniors Centre. The final winners were selected by Drs. Moreno and Schiphorst.

Submissions

Over 400 students from British Columbia signed up for this contest and a total of 15 videos were submitted. You can watch all of the video entries from this years contest and view the pictures from the awards ceremony here .

Contest Winners

On March 2nd, an awards ceremony was held at SFU’s Segal building in downtown Vancouver to announce the winners of this years contest. Congratulations to all of the winners listed below and a huge thanks to everyone that submitted a video.

First Place: To carve a smile

Produced by: Dino Dang, Nicole Filipowski and Jacky Luk

Prize: $6000

Second Place: I love my nana

Produced by: Brandon Kanegae Tse, Liam Murdock and Emily Cheung.

Prize: $500

Third Place: Every kind of person with Mary-Wynee Ashford.

Produced by: Aamir Ali, Sam Barnett and Nicole Woo

Prize: $250

Indigenous Selection: Help my grandma video

Produced by: Sage Delorme

Prize: $500

Seniors Selection: I love my nana

Produced by: Brandon Kanegae Tse and Liam Murdock

Prize: $500