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ISIS Hosts First Ever SEX::TECH Sex Ed Video Contest!! Imagine the Future of Sex Ed: Why is sex so interesting and sex ed so boring?

Remember those boring sex ed videos you had to watch in school? You know, the ones that either put you to sleep, scared you to death or didn't teach you anything useful about sex? Wait! We grant YOU the power to make sex ed as exciting as it sounds!

Using digital video technology, tell us how you want your sex education delivered. Would you want your teacher to blog each lesson so you can comment anonymously? Do you want your own personal robot tutor? A virtual reality game you could play with other teens around the world? Or maybe, just maybe, you want real youth in person talking candidly about their experiences, or HIV-positive people telling you about their lives, or something else we can't quite imagine yet.

ISIS and NSRC are hosting a digital video contest aimed at imagining how good sex ed CAN be. Make a video with the theme "Imagine the future of sex education: Redesign your experience" and submit it through DoGooderTV by December 31st. You'll be eligible to win a $2500 dollar scholarship to the educational insitution of your choice. Content and creative vision will be weighed more heavily than production quality. Voting begins on January 4, 2008. See the official rules for more details.

Video finalists will be featured at the Sex::Tech Conference: Focus on Youth, an Inaugural STD/HIV Prevention Conference about youth and technology, January 22 - 23, 2008 in San Francisco, CA at SFSU's Institute for Next Generation Internet.

Contact: andy at isis-inc dot org for contest inquiries

Visit the official Sex::Tech Conference website

ISIS - Internet Sexuality Information Services, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to creating new and effective tools for reaching people with critical sexual health information.

NSRC - The National Sexuality Resource Center at San Francisco State University gathers and disseminates the latest accurate information and research on sexual health, education, and rights for all.

Visit the official contest page for more details.

The Internet and mobile technologies have strengthened youth networks, provided new avenues for expression, and increased youth access to tools and information designed to improve their sexual health.

Sex::Tech will explore available tools and methods for reaching youth with culturally appropriate STD/HIV prevention and sex education interventions from a youth perspective, with input from public health professionals, educators, researchers, and technology developers.

ISIS-Inc is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to creating new and effective tools for reaching people with critical sexual health information. Stay up-to-date on the latest in technology and sexual health by visiting our blog.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, we work locally, nationally and internationally. Our partners include governmental and non-governmental agencies, for-profit and non-profit corporations, and individuals.

Our newest projects include Eavesdrop, a podcast series featuring San Francisco gay men talking about their sex lives, and CaliforniaMen.net, a Web 2.0 HIV prevention tool. Our highly acclaimed projects include inSPOT.org, an online STD partner notification system, STDTest.org, an online syphilis testing service for San Francisco residents, and SexINFO, our text messaging project for African American youth. Read more about our current and upcoming projects here. Check out our upcoming HIV Prevention and Technology Conference 2008: Focus on Youth.