Winters Mill Student Wins Safe Prom Video Contest

Winters Mill High School senior Nicole Ullrich has been named winner of the Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (MAIF) safe prom video contest.

The Fund encourages students to make good choices during prom season. Ullrich and Winter Mill received $1,000 for their first-place entry, “Prom Safety.” 

For Operation: Safe Prom Video, students were asked to produce and submit videos that encourage teens to avoid texting while driving and drinking while driving.

According to the MAIF’s blog, once videos were collected from five Maryland High Schools, voting was opened to the public. During the voting period, 311 votes were cast over 10 days and the seven films were narrowed down to five finalists.  

Next, the films were judged by a panel of industry professionals and experts in the fields of filmmaking, insurance and public safety.

The panel included Col. Marcus L. Brown, superintendent of the Maryland State Police; Jack Gerbes, director of the Maryland Film Office; and Kent Krabbe, executive director of MAIF. 

Together the panel ranked each of the final five films 1-5 with the first place title going to Ullrich and Winters Mill for Ullrich’s video entitled “Prom Safety”. 

The $1,000 prize will go to the school's video production program.

Ullrich’s winning video depicted a female student who dies in a car accident while texting her boyfriend about what she is going to wear at the prom.  The video ends with the student’s obituary and the sentiment: “She never made it to prom…Will you?”

To view Ullrich’s video and the video's of the other finalists click here: “Prom Safety”. 

For additional Prom safety tips for parents and teens click here.