POST FALLS - Now hear this: Two Post Falls Middle School students are finalists in a national video contest.

A pair of Post Falls cousins, Jordan Neilson and Shiloh Morgan, are among 30 finalists of 196 entries submitted in the Starkey Hearing Foundation's Listen Carefully video contest, which educates peers about the dangers of high-volume sounds.

"Our family has entered a lot of video contests and we've won quite a few," said Doug Melven, Neilson's dad and a Post Falls resident.

The teens are going to need your vote to win the grand prize - a private concert this spring at the winners' school by Grammy-nominated recording artist Aloe Blacc.

Voting is open at contest.listencarefully.org/listen-carefully/site/contest until Jan. 31. Insert the name of one of the teens to search for their video.

Their video can be seen at contest.listencarefully.org/listen-carefully/site/contest?search=shiloh+morgan.

The Post Falls students are the only finalists from Idaho.

They recorded their video at the Long Ear music shop in Coeur d'Alene during Christmas break.

The students have a personal tie to hearing loss, as Neilson's mother, Anna Melven, has 60 percent hearing loss.

"That's why they thought it was important to enter," said Doug, who has worked in the TV industry. "When they saw it, they were interested."

Jordan's messages in the 30-second video were to wear hearing protection around lab machinery, use headphones instead of ear buds and to use the "60/60 rule" of limiting the sound to 60 percent maximum volume as much as 60 minutes per day.

Without hearing aids, the world would be a "different place" for folks such as her mother, she said in the video.

The contest was open to U.S. students ages 13 to 18. They were allowed to work in teams as large as three members.

The contest winner will be announced Feb. 1.

The second- and third-place winners will each receive a GoPro camera and a trip to attend the concert with a parent or legal guardian.

The Starkey Hearing Foundation is a national nonprofit that provides free hearing aids to people in need. Noise-induced hearing loss affects one in six American teens and has increased 30 percent in the past decade, according to the foundation.