HSLDA’s homeschool Photo Contest is accepting entries through August 1. Students must submit a photo with one of the following fruits of the spirit as their theme:
Category 1 (students age 7-11): Gentleness
Category 2 (students age 12-15): Faithfulness
Category 3 (students age 16-19): Self-control
Studio 2 had a short movie competition going. You had to make a 5 minute movie on 5+ a day Movie Mad Challenge.
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You can watch their 5 minute movie on channel 2. It is either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at 4.30pm. They are screening 1 finalist each afternoon. Or you can go on-line to the TVNZ website and go to Studio 2,
It is a competition that requires votes. All your support for the boys would be really great.
You can go online and check out how to vote, or watch on studio2 and they will tell you how.
Tuesday (Today) http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/656348 view it here: http://the-hub.tv/content/view/1268/123/
HOW TO VOTE: Text “MOVIE 3 Your name, town” to 8972
For more information: http://the-hub.tv/content/view/1142
Thanks for your support.
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/413551/1803588
The Fair Go School Ad Awards are back for another year!
Primary and secondary schools from around the country are being invited to show us what you have got and enter the student ad awards.
Prizes galore!
Fair Go is offering cash prizes of $2,000 for first and $500 each for second and third.
Fantastic … but wait there’s more!
Canon are getting behind the awards, and the winners of both primary and secondary categories will win their new high end, High Definition camera HF10 – it’s not even on the market yet!
The runners up will each get an FS10 Canon Handicam.
And…
Unitec’s School of Performing and Screen Arts in Auckland is offering the winning secondary school $2000 study awards for up to five members of the winning team.
And, like last year, they are offering technical advice if you’re putting in an entry. For information CLICK HERE
So getting down to business … the ad briefs are:
Secondary schools
It’s election year and we want you to come up with your own, fictitious, political party that you’re trying to get people to vote for. It could be a single-issue party or a youth party or one that appeals to everyone. Remember you need to convince people why they should vote for you.
For the full secondary creative brief and entry form CLICK HERE
Primary and intermediate schools
We want you to dream up an ad that sells your home town. It could be in the style of a travel/holiday destination ad, or a branding campaign (think of ones you might have seen before, like: “Hamilton: It’s all right here”). Your job is to convince us your town is the best place to be. Try not to show us the obvious landmarks – let us see your town through young people’s eyes.
For the full primary creative brief and entry form CLICK HERE
You can also check out last year’s finalists and winners for inspiration! The deadline for entries is Friday August 1 2008.
N.B. The entry forms and briefs are in pdf format so you will need Adobe Acrobat pdf reader to view them
If you are wanting to send in an entry to this then you need to send it in the next couple of days for it to arrive by June 1.
http://www.hslda.org/Contests/Poetry/2008/2007rules.asp
2008 Guidelines
Entry Form
Click image above to download ( requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
Poetry Contest Archives
2007 2006
2005
Entries received before May 1 or postmarked after June 1 will be sent back or discarded.
Students must submit a poem in one of the following forms and with one of the following pieces of American artwork as their theme:
Category 1: Blank verse, 15-20 lines
The Stampede by Lightning by Frederic Remington, 1908
Category 2: Blank verse, 20-25 lines
View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836
Category 3: Blank verse, 25-30 lines
Approaching a City by Edward Hopper, 1946.
We try to choose themes that will leave a lot of room for students’ imagination and interpretation, without us dictating the response.
Examine these pieces of art and see what poetic ideas they inspire. What does the artwork make you think of? What story might it tell? Then take it from there and be creative.
We hope that students will come up with many imaginative ideas to fit the theme. Our judges love it when a student comes up with something they had not thought of before.
Contest prizes and themes are determined based on the student’s age. If a student falls into Category 1 in age, then he or she must do the Category 1 theme and will be awarded Category 1 prizes. The same applies for categories 2 and 3.
Category 1: Homeschoolers ages 7 to 11 as of May 1, 2008.
Category 2: Homeschoolers ages 12 to 15 as of May 1, 2008.
Category 3: Homeschoolers ages 16 to 19 as of May 1, 2008.
For the purposes of this contest, an eligible student must have been home educated in the past year and received a majority of his or her education in the past year through home education.
Poems must be mailed to:
HSLDA
Attn: Poetry Contest
P.O. Box 3000
Purcellville, VA 20134-9000
Entries must be postmarked on or before June 1, 2008. Only entries sent to the above address will qualify for the contest.
Dear Homeschool Leader,
We thought your homeschoolers would like to know about this:
GLOBAL ARTS FESTIVAL OFFERS KIDS DUDE RANCH VACATIONS AS BIBLE STUDY INCENTIVE
South Padre Island, Texas, April 10, 2008 — Children all over the world can write and draw to win one of a dozen dude ranch vacations offered as prizes in the Children’s International Arts Festival. Kids ages 5-12 can enter by answering and illustrating Bible-related questions for an online book the festival organizer plans to publish. Each winner may write an essay telling why his or her teacher should win one of the trips.
“These trips are major prizes,” says Carey Kinsolving, organizer of the festival. “Each child winner and immediate family will get to spend a week at a dude ranch, including food, lodging, horseback riding and other activities.”
The Children’s International Arts Festival is sponsored by Kids Talk About God, an online ministry which grew out of Kinsolving’s syndicated column of the same name. He began writing the column after years of writing feature stories for The Washington Post and other major newspapers who received his stories through The New York Times News Service.
Kinsolving plans to publish the best children’s writing and art in the “Kids Color Me Bible Gospel of John.” This online storybook Bible will be patterned after his popular “Kids Color Me Bible.” Each chapter features children’s writing and art. Children who print pages from the free, online book can add their writing and art making each chapter a personalized keepsake.
“Children have a way of cutting right to the heart of a Bible story when they draw art to illustrate it,” said Kinsolving. “Their answers to Bible-related questions can be humorous and insightful. We’re hoping that opportunities to win dude ranch vacations will motivate many children to share their insights while increasing their Bible literacy.”
Why dude ranches?
Kinsolving feels that dude ranches capture the imaginations of children, and are one of the best types of vacations for families. “Kids love the horses and wide-open spaces, while parents enjoy the beautiful scenery and peaceful setting. It’s ideal for elbow room as well as for reconnecting with your family. When I tell grown-ups about the festival, they ask me if they’re too old to enter!”
Of the 12 dude ranches offering vacations as prizes, six are in Colorado and two are in Idaho. The other four are in Montana, Wyoming, Arizona and even east of the Mississippi in upstate New York. All abound with inspiring views, a wide variety of wildlife to observe and photograph, and plenty of horseback riding.
What one dude ranch owner wrote: “You’ll find that good riding, good food and good friends will leave you peaceful and content. You’ll discover the luxuries of silence, the wind on your face and the stars shining brightly.”
Children who wish to enter the festival can get their parents to download an entry form at http://www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org. There will also be a list of contest questions available to answer through writing and drawing, and instructions for how to enter.
http://www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org is a non-denominational, Christian ministry that empowers children by publishing their faith expressions and making them available without charge to website visitors. Its website (http://www.KidsTalkAboutGod.org) features 60 Kid TV Interviews, Children’s Bible Art Gallery, “Kids Color Me Bible,” “Mission Explorers Streaming Video” and a Bible Lesson Archive. Visitors may download pictures from the Art Gallery and lessons from the “Kids Color Me Bible” for free. As a newspaper column, Kids Talk About God has been in syndication for more than seven years.
