One student could win a trip toSuper
BowlLXI

Empower your students to recognize online risks through a free safety challenge and creative art poster contest.

Bring the Teen Safety Challenge
to Your Classroom or Club

Guide your students through the challenge together in your classroom or youth organization.

About Kids4Freedom: Kids4Freedom is an educational initiative of Connect for Freedom, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping protect K-12 students from online exploitation and human trafficking through awareness and prevention education. In partnership with the New York Giants, the Teen Safety Challenge '27 teaches teens ages 13 to 18 in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to recognize warning signs, stay safe online, and protect themselves and others.

Who this page is for: Teachers and youth organization staff can use this guide to facilitate the Teen Safety Challenge as a hands-on educational activity in their classroom or program. This is an alternative to the independent option, where teens complete the challenge online on their own with parent or guardian consent.

A message from Andrew Thomas of the New York Giants.

How It Works

1

Learn

Watch the 11 minute presentation.

2

Pledge

Take the Pledge2Protect.

3

Create

Design an original art poster.

Step 1: Watch the Presentation

Play the presentation for your group. It runs 11 minutes and 24 seconds.

Trouble viewing? Open the presentation on Vimeo.

Step 2: Take the Pledge2Protect

Pass the Pledge2Protect

A safer online world starts with one action and grows with every share. Take the Pledge2Protect then pass it to your friends, family and networks to help protect more kids and teens online.

Pass the Pledge

By taking this pledge, you are vowing to:

  • Protect yourself and others from online harm.
  • Take the steps necessary to avoid online predators.
  • Support those impacted by this crime.

5 Steps2Take to Support the Pledge2Protect:

  1. I pledge to not create or share real or AI-generated sexually explicit images of myself or my peers. Next up, review the How2Spot Peer-on-Peer Risks: A Guide for Teens.
  2. I pledge to review the Exit Strategy Checklist, create my own exit strategy and talk about this with my friends so we are prepared if something goes sideways online or doesn't feel right.
  3. I pledge to bookmark How2Report, the How2Report FAQ and review the You're Never Alone Support Directory resource in case online exploitation happens to me or a friend.
  4. I pledge to set all my apps, games, social media accounts and devices to private and to turn off location data services on social media and all apps, except the ones my family and I need.
  5. I pledge to check out the Tips2Identify Fake Profiles and know who is on my friends and followers lists, remove strangers and only accept people I know in real life and block or remove anyone who makes me feel uncomfortable.

View the pledge resources from DHS Know2Protect (opens in a new tab)

Step 3: Create Posters

Students design an original art poster on the theme of online exploitation and human trafficking awareness, building on the knowledge they learned in the presentation.

  • Original work only. Each poster must be created by the student.
  • No AI. No AI generated or AI assisted images, text, or editing.

Final Steps: Consent, Submit & Certificate

A

Send Home the Consent Form

A parent or legal guardian and the student both sign the consent form.

Download Consent Form (PDF)
B

Submit Students' Artwork

Each entry takes about two minutes. For each student, you'll need:

  • Your name and email
  • Your school or organization
  • The student's name
  • Upload the signed consent form
  • Upload the student's art poster
Open the Facilitator Submission Form

Prefer email? Send the scanned forms and posters to info@kids4freedom.org.

C

Print Certificates of Achievement

Once you submit a student's consent form and poster through the form, you can download and print their Certificate of Achievement.

Prizes

Every student who submits an art poster to the Kids4Freedom Teen Safety Challenge '27 is entered to win the Grand Prize, a trip to Super Bowl LXI, and has a chance to win one of five other exciting prizes.

Grand Prize

Trip to Super Bowl LXI

  • Trip for the winner and a guardian to Los Angeles
  • Two Super Bowl LXI tickets
  • Up to $3,000 toward round trip airfare
  • One night hotel accommodations

Only the first 250 qualifying posters will be judged.

5 More Winners

Five Other Exciting Prizes

  • Signed New York Giants football
  • Apple AirPods
  • JBL Charge 6 speaker
  • $200 Target gift card
  • $200 Dick's Sporting Goods gift card

Winners will be announced on or about February 1, 2027. See the Official Rules for full details.

Supports New Jersey Student Learning Standards

The Kids4Freedom Teen Safety Challenge supports the 2020 New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Comprehensive Health and Physical Education (NJSLS-CHPE), Standard 2.3: Safety – Personal Safety, including:

  • By the End of Grade 8: 2.3.8.PS.1, 2.3.8.PS.4, 2.3.8.PS.6 (digital safety, recognizing recruitment tactics used by traffickers and exploiters, and safe social media practices).
  • By the End of Grade 12: 2.3.12.PS.2, 2.3.12.PS.7, 2.3.12.PS.9 (risks associated with sharing sexually explicit images, recognizing exploitation and recruitment tactics, and safe social media practices).

    View the official NJDOE standards

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2027
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