2 LI Students Win Land Rover For Charity By Creating Video

SOUTHAMPTON, NY — Two creative Southampton High School students dedicated their talents for good when they created a video recently that won them a Land Rover to help a local charity.

Wyatt Race and Ronan Brady, both sophomores, filmed a promotional video — which was entered into the category focused on not-for-profits and urban improvement — over the summer after hearing about Land Rover's first-ever Defender Above and Beyond Service Awards contest.

The teens won one of eight Land Rovers, which will benefit the not-for-profit Hamptons Community Outreach program, the school district said.

“It was great and very surprising,” Wyatt said.

“It is the best thing that could have happened,” Ronan added.

The boys filmed their video at several locations in the Hamptons on a summer afternoon and took two days to edit the piece, which focuses on the service that the Hamptons Community Outreach program provides to those in need — including emergency home repair services.

The Land Rover will be used by the group to help with the transportation of equipment and volunteers, the district said.

When the winner was announced virtually, Marit Molin, executive director of Hamptons Community Outreach, cheered and sobbed with joy. "We are so incredibly happy and so grateful to Land Rover," she said. "Because of you, we will be able to do so much more work to help marginalized families."

When asked what the organization does and how the Defender will be used, Molin said: "We are always struggling to find vehicles. We rely on volunteers. The fact that we have a reliable vehicle such as the Defender to go to home repair projects, which are sometimes out in woods, will be priceless to us. . . The Defender will never be empty and it will never be idle."

The caring teens have also reached out to help others in the past, organizing a diaper drive, the district said.

In their free time, the teens are members of the school's golf team and are involved with the Key Club.

To view their winning video, click here.