Students are challenged to create an original 30 or 60 second "Ecommercial" focused on raising awareness of key environmental issues. LEAF gives students an opportunity to enact change locally in their own communities and globally around the world through the medium of film, animation, art, music and literature. Students are encouraged to use technology, research, and their imagination to express their ideas and build a winning message for a chance at great prizes.

Some suggested topics of focus: Clean Oceans, Plastic Pollution, Efficient Water Use, Organic Farming, Renewable Energy, Recycling, Repurposing, Sustainability, Permaculture, etc.

LEAF 1st place prize $1,000, 2nd place $750, 3rd place $500. Also cool prizes from Volcom, Xgames, Element, Toms Shoes, etc...

The LEAF Awards to be held April 25th - for more details see the LEAF awards flyer. The winners will be announced prior to the awards. Keep checking in!

Congratulations the winners: Mattan Cohen, Jay Salahi, Austin Silvers and Uriel. Join us in the L.E.A.F celebration on Sunday April 25th to collect your awards and know your exact ranking.

• You must be a student attending an Orange County public or private High School, grades between 9th to 12th grade.
• You must be a US citizen or legal resident to enter and win.
• Videos must be 30 or 60 seconds in length. Any longer &/or shorter may render the submission as disqualified.
• Videos must not contain violence, profanity, sex, or direct attacks on individuals or organizations.
• The video must be your own original creation. No copyrighted music, video, or images may be used in the video.
• Videos must not infringe on any third party rights.
• Videos must not have been produced for compensation.
• Winners must provide a copy of the original video file to Volcom to receive an award.
• By submitting a video to this contest, you grant to Volcom a royalty-free license to copy, distribute, modify, display and perform publicly and otherwise use, and authorize others to use, your video for any educational purpose throughout the world and in any media.
• Volcom reserves the right to make your video available to the general public from its Web site and to distribute it to groups and any other organizations interested in showing it for educational purposes, including, but not limited to, on Internet sites, at conferences and events, on television, and other media outlets.
• Volcom and the LEAF team will disqualify any entries it deems to contain offensive material.
• Entries must be received or postmarked by April 9th, 2010. Winners will be notified via e-mail and announced on the contest Web site in April.
• Entrants must agree to these terms and conditions in order to submit a video for consideration.
• Volcom reserves the right to not select a winner if none of the entries received are judged to be high quality based on the Rules and Eligibility.
• You must agree to the terms of use and copyright policy of adball found in the respective sections on the adball.com website.
• Videos submitted to adball.com must be in one of the following file extensions: AVI, MP4, MOV, MPG.
• Winning Videos must be submitted in one of the following formats: Digibeta, BetaSp, MiniDV or DVCam (NTSC only).
• If your video follows the rules and meets the eligibility criteria above, it will be judged by a panel based on creativity, originality, message content, relation to this year's theme, and video/audio quality.