Press Release: 10/28/2025
MassDOT Announces “Safe Streets Smart Trips” Video Contest Winners
Competition encourages high school students to showcase their understanding of roadway safety across travel modes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
10/28/2025
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Jacquelyn Goddard, Director of Communications, MassDOT
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BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing the winners of this year’s statewide Safe Streets Smart Trips high school video contest. This year, submissions were received from high schools across Massachusetts, and six finalists’ videos were chosen to be screened during MassDOT’s 2025 Moving Together Conference, held this afternoon. The contest began in 2014 and encourages high school students to showcase their understanding of roadway safety across all travel modes to promote efforts to decrease pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and fatalities. Per the contest guidelines, this year students are being asked to write and produce a 30-60 second video emphasizing “Safe Walking, Biking, and Driving Behaviors.”
“The Safe Streets Smart Trips video contest gives young and passionate filmmakers the chance to educate a wide audience of road users on safety,” said Undersecretary and Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver. “We are thrilled to recognize this year’s contest winners whose creative work embodies the idea of ‘Safe Walking, Biking, and Driving Behaviors’, reminding us to consider the diverse experiences of all road users. Congratulations to the winners and many thanks to everyone who participated and helped to amplify the importance of safety.”
As an initiative of the Massachusetts Strategic Highway Safety Plan to promote safe walking, bicycling and driving behaviors, the contest is open to all Massachusetts public high school students and features a Freshman/Sophomore category and Junior/Senior category.
The prize award categories and high school recipients are as follows:
Grand Prize Winners:
Freshman/Sophomore category: Cole Bouchard, Leandro Belicio, Aaron Charest, Max Forgues, and Trent Barboza from Dartmouth High School.
Video title: “Coach P’s Walk to School Class”
Junior/Senior category: Joel Chuku, John Fitzgerald, Abraham Muniz Quiros, Noah Koza, Edwin Olney, and Brendan Sullivan from Burncoat High School (Worcester).
Video title: "Buckle Up”
Runners-up:
Freshman/Sophomore category: Katie Eisenstadt and Kayla Lee from Sharon High School.
Video title: "The Code of the Road”
Junior/Senior category: Micah Klein, Yossi Danzig, Levi Rosenberg-Van Gameren, and Charlie Shortsleeve from Newton North High School.
Video title: "Safe Driving League”
Honorable Mention:
Freshman/Sophomore category: Ashlyn Baugher, Tamar Cohen, Quinn Durken, Micah Feldman, and Riley Furtado from Newton North High School.
Video title: "Use Your Brain”
Junior/Senior category: Jacob Yee, Nathan Quinn, and Hannah Blauch from Medford Vocational Technical High School.
Video title: "Heads Up, Phones Down, Safe Driving All Around”
This year’s winners were selected as grand prize, runner-up, and honorable mention videos in each category (Freshman/Sophomore and Junior/Senior) by a MassDOT panel. Video creators received prizes including $600 Amazon gift cards for the grand prize videos and $300 Amazon gift cards for the runner-up videos. Top videos may also be featured in future safety campaigns.
The videos will be posted and available to view on the Roadway Safety Video Contest Results page.
To learn more about the Safe Streets Smart Trips high school video contest visit Mass.gov/roadway-safety-video or call 857-383-3807.