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The Georgia Farm Bureau’s 2010 Art Contest invites all Georgia High School Students to enter a work of art in black ink or dark pencil on 8.5 x 11 inch white paper. Entries are due by Friday, February 26th. Prizes range from $75 to $250. See Mr. Stachura for more details.
The Athens Optimist Club invites students to participate in a scholarship contest on the topic “The Internet: Today’s Evolution or Tomorrow’s Menace?” This contest has a top price of a $6000 scholarship and all essays are due January 11, 2010. See Mr. Stachura for more details.
Norman Mailer produced extraordinary works in many genres, including the category of this year’s award: creative nonfiction. Students who will be seniors in fall 2010 may submit work in any of the many subgenres of creative nonfiction: memoir or autobiography, essay, literary journalism, profiles of people or places, and so on. Whatever its type, the best work will be true material presented with compelling literary merit. This year submissions will be accepted between February 1 and May 1. The top winner will receive a $5,000 cash award, with plaques and citations also awarded to national finalists and semifinalists.
Submission and Formatting Guidelines
Students may submit one or more pieces of writing for a total of up to 10 single-spaced pages, though quality is far more important than quantity. The writing you upload must include a title, your name, and page numbers within your file. Use a plain, common, and easily readable font, such as Times New Roman; 11 or 12-point only, please. Accepted file types: .pdf, .doc, .docx, and .txt (maximum file size: 8 megabytes). Submissions will be accepted online only and must be endorsed by a teacher and released by a parent or guardian.
See Ms. Sweetapple for more details.
Is integrity especially important in your life? If so a 500 word essay on “the importance of trust in your life” may be worth a $1000 scholarship from the Better Business Bureau. Essays are due January 31st. See Mr. Stachura for more details.
Legacy and Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement Essay Contest
This contest is tied to a documentary scheduled to appear on PBS during Black History Month, Legacy: Black and White in America. All high school classes are invited to participate by submitting essays on the theme: "What are the legacy and lessons of the Civil Rights Movement?" Teachers/classes may participate in two ways:
1. You can start your own "Legacy" local writers gallery in the National Gallery of Writing, and invite each student to submit an essay on this theme prior to the December 15 deadline. Once your students' work is in, you can select the essay you consider the best in your class and submit it to the National Partner Legacy Essay Contest Gallery.
2. Alternatively you can collect essays from your class and post only the top essay to the National Partner Legacy Essay Contest Gallery -- note the "contribute to this gallery" button at the bottom of the web page. Again, December 15 is the deadline for submissions, with awards to be announced in February 2010.
This contest offers cash awards and laptop computers to the national finalists, and the top winner will take part in a VIP Capitol ceremony that may include President Barack Obama. The underlying purpose of the contest is to motivate high school students to take a serious look at what it means to be black or white in America today, how this has and hasn't changed since the days of the Civil Rights Movement, and what lessons we have learned about how to further the quest for genuine racial equity. In addition to NCTE, the contest is supported by the Congressional Black Caucus, the National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, among others.