Students submit a digital photo of any art (other than photography) and submit it online at www.celebratingart.com. Two contests each year with a deadline November 30th and April 3rd. There are 10 winners in each grade division of K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 who will receive $25 and a full color book that includes their art. Other artists of merit will be invited to be published. There are no costs to enter or to be published. Each year homeschool students have been national winners in this contest.
POETRY CONTEST
Students submit one poem 21 lines on any topic and submit it online at www.poeticpower.com or mail it to Creative Communication, 159 North Main Street, Smithfield, UT 84335. Three contests each year with a deadline December 6th, April 12 and August 15. There are 10 winners in each grade division of K-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12 who will receive $25 and a book that includes their poem. Other writers of merit will be invited to be published. There are no costs to enter or to be published.
ESSAY CONTEST
Students submit one non-fiction essay, 250 words or less on any topic and submit it online at www.poeticpower.com or mail it to Creative Communication, 159 North Main Street, Smithfield, UT 84335. Three contests each year with a deadline October 18, Feb 15 and July 18. There are 10 winners in each grade division of 3-6, 7-9, 10-12 who will receive $25 and a book that includes their essay. Other writers of merit will be invited to be published. There are no costs to enter or to be published.
Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition
Announcing the 2011 Competition
The Nob Yoshigahara Puzzle Design Competition was established in 2001 to promote and recognize innovative new designs of mechanical puzzles. The 11th annual competition begins this year, with judging and awards at IPP31 (August 2011). See the full details
Luckily, it's easy to nominate yourself or someone you know for a Discus Award. Just pick three areas of excellence, make your case for each in under 750 characters - you can even spice it up with images and video—and submit online. Students can nominate themselves or their friends, and teachers, counselors, and parents can nominate a student they know. Discus Award winners are one of a kind, and the award makes a great addition to your college application.
The President’s Challenge is open to all kids—whether they attend a public school, a private academy, or are homeschooled by their parents or a homeschool co-op.
Homeschooled kids are eligible to join all of our challenges. There’s sure to be one that fits everyone’s needs.
The Being an American Essay Contest challenges high school students to reflect on the civic values important togood citizenship. Tell us, in up to 750 words, what civic value(s) you find most important, and how you can live out that civic value(s) in your own life. To find out how to participate, see the contest website at www.beinganamerican.org.
In a world so focused on exams and test scores, Moody’s Mega Math (M3) Challenge reminds high schoolers that mathematics is more than just problem solving from a textbook. It shows students that math can actually be used to solve complex, real-world issues. An exclusively Internet-based contest, it is free of entry and participation fees, and open to high schools in the North Eastern U.S. from Maine through Florida. Eleventh and twelfth grade students have 14 hours to solve an open-ended, applied math-modeling problem focused on a worldly issue, and are judged based on their solution papers, followed by oral presentations by top teams. Students participating in past challenges have cracked everything from the effect of the stimulus package to using ethanol as biofuel.
Sponsored by the Moody’s Foundation and organized by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the Challenge takes place annually in March, and awards a total of $100,000 in scholarship prizes. For more information, visit: http://m3challenge.siam.org/
Children age 13 and under are invited to enter the Ranger Rick Photo Contest.
Each winning entry will be featured in the Ranger Rick magazine and on Ranger Rick’s website. Winners will also receive a Certificate of Recognition and five copies of the Ranger Rick magazine featuring their entries. The contest is held three times per year:
Details and Deadline dates HERE
