'What Moves You?' Video Contest and Statewide Events Launch MS Awareness Week, March 8-14

SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- March 8-14 is MS National Awareness Week and the National MS Society Michigan Chapter kicks off the week with its first-ever YouTube video contest and activities planned across the state.

For the month-long "What Moves You?" contest, participants are asked to submit short videos creatively expressing reasons for supporting the National MS Society and encouraging others to join in. Entry forms and additional details are available at www.nationalmssociety.org/mig.

In addition to launching the contest, cities throughout Michigan are planning MS Awareness Week activities. These include local restaurants donating a portion of their sales to MS including ones in Allen Park, Auburn Hills, Chesterfield, Dearborn, Farmington, Grand Rapids, Grandville, Kentwood, Monroe, Northville and Royal Oak; a pub crawl in Ferndale; and a Nintendo® Wii™ Bowling Tournament in Grand Rapids.

A complete list of activities can be found at the chapter's website, www.nationalmssociety.org/mig.

With a "MOVE IT!" theme, MS Awareness Week encourages and enables people all over the world to come together for one week of the year to increase awareness about MS...and move the message forward toward creating a world free of MS.  

What Moves You? Video Contest

The National MS Society Michigan Chapter is launching the contest with its own YouTube video debuting March 8 on its Facebook page.

Videos must be submitted by March 21 and YouTube viewers will have until March 31 to "vote" for their favorites. Each click to view a video counts as a vote.

Two winners will be chosen; one from the video that receives the most YouTube viewings and a Chairman's Choice winner – selected from the top 10 finalists for most viewed videos.

Both winners receive MS Society duffle bags filled with goodies and will have their videos featured on the chapter website and Facebook pages.

About MS Society and MS Awareness Week

Multiple Sclerosis is a disease of the central nervous system that interrupts the flow of information between the brain and body, ultimately interfering with movement. The National MS Society is committed to helping each person address the challenges of living with MS through a 50 state network of chapters.  It funds more MS research, provides more services to people with MS, offers more professional education and furthers more advocacy than any other MS organization in the world.  The Society is dedicated to achieving a world free of MS. Join the movement at www.nationalmssociety.org/mig.

MS Awareness Week is about volunteering, walking, cycling, advocating, educating, raising awareness; showing that every unique mark builds the MS movement; it's about encouraging people to support the Society and motivating the millions of people who want to do something about MS now.

SOURCE MS Society