Students create drug prevention video
WAYNESBURG – Two Carmichaels Area High School students won $1,000 for their district for taking home first place in a countywide drug prevention video competition.
Calyssa Lavery, a senior, and junior Alexys Mann filmed a five-minute video about drug abuse and submitted it for the Town Hall Video Competition, for which they were awarded during a Law Day celebration Friday at the Greene County Courthouse.
“We were so nervous that we weren’t going to win,” Lavery said.
Their video, which was played for an audience Friday, was a fictional depiction of a teenager overdosing on cocaine while among friends, who left him in the road to die.
The girls won the Judge’s Award for first place and four other groups of students from different districts won runner-up placements.
Along with Carmichaels, students from West Greene, Southeastern Greene and Jefferson-Morgan school districts participated in the competition.
Greene County President Judge Farley Toothman said all of the eight videos submitted were “very moving.”
“They made us cry,” he said.
County officials are hoping to post the videos online, although no timeline was given.