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Teen Ink is
a national teen magazine, book series and Web site
devoted to teenage writing and art. Written by teens for
teens, Teen Ink
has published the work of more than 25,000 teens since 1989. Monthly
contests for original
writing and photography include
Celebrity Interviews,
Nonfiction Essays, Poetry and Teen Ink Cover Photos.
Submission guidelines
and writing tips can be found on the Web site.
Deadline: Ongoing;
submit entries throughout the year
Web: http://www.teenink.com/Contests/ |
If you have a great technology lesson plan or an idea for an
innovative
technology project, enter the Digital
Wish competition
to win resources
for your classroom or school. Tool
Factory and Olympus have
teamed up
to award digital technology prizes every month for
innovative lesson plans
that use one of the Tool Factory software products and
digital cameras. A
single entry gives access to 43 different technology awards.
The free Digital
Wish Lesson Plan Library of online lessons keeps growing
every month
with new teacher additions.
Deadlines: 28th
of every month
Web: http://www.digitalwish.com/dw/digitalwish/home/ |
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Project Ignition, sponsored by State
Farm Companies Foundation and
the National
Youth Leadership Council (NYLC),
is an annual competition
for high school students to promote teen-driver
safety. Teams of students
create “awareness campaigns” that employ any type or
combination of
media—television commercials, radio spots, print ads, direct
mail, Web
sites, special events, hip-hop performances, art exhibitions
and more. To
participate, teams submit their proposals to NYLC. The top
25 teams
receive a $2,000 grant to turn their proposals into a real
campaign. Those
campaigns are then judged, with the top 10 teams each
awarded up to
$5,000 to attend NYLC’s National Service Learning
Conference, where they
present their campaigns to a national audience. The one
chosen as Best of
the Best earns that school a $10,000 grant to continue its
teen driver safety
efforts.
Deadline: June
30, 2009 for the 2009–2010 school year
Web: http://www.sfprojectignition.com |
The awards for the National
High School Journalism Teacher Awards
Program include
a National
Teacher of the Year and
four Distinguished
Advisors, with Special
Recognition Advisors chosen
at the discretion of the
judges. The Teacher of the Year wins a state-of-the-art
laptop computer
as well as the opportunity to serve as a quarterly columnist
in the Advisor
Update newspaper for
the Dow
Jones Newspaper Fund. A senior student
at the winning teacher’s school will receive a $1,000
college scholarship
to major in news-editorial journalism based on performance
in a writing
contest at the school. Awards are supported by The
Wall Street Journal
Classroom Edition, Columbia Scholastic Press Association and
Poynter
Institute for Media Studies.
Deadline: July
1, 2009
Web: https://www.newspaperfund.org/
PageText/Prg_HomePages.aspx?Page_ID=Prg_TeacherOfTheYear |
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The Bridgestone
Firestone 2009 Safety Scholars Video Contest will
award college scholarships to high school students for the
most compelling
and effective videos that drive home life-saving messages on
auto and tire
safety, and includes a chance for young filmmakers to have
their auto safety
videos broadcast as a public service commercial.
Deadline: Entries
accepted May 27–June 17, 2009
Web: http://safetyscholarsvideo.com/index.php?/site/guidelines |
Summer is a busy time and sometimes so busy that nutritional
eating
habits get disrupted. Now is a good time to examine the free
offerings from
Action for Healthy Kids. The Game
On! Ultimate Wellness Challenge is
a year-long program that challenges America’s youth, their
families and
schools to incorporate healthful food choices and physical
exercise into
their daily lives. The site provides a step-by-step guide
with details on how
to begin a program and set up challenges to be met before
school, during
school and after school. Get ready for summer school and
afterschool
programs with ReCharge!,
a joint effort of Action for Healthy Kids and the
National Football League (NFL).
Deadline: Ongoing
Web: http://www.actionforhealthykids.org/ |
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