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2010 GuidelinesSubmission Dates: June 1, 2010 to July 1, 2010Entries received before June 1 or postmarked after July 1 will be returned or discarded. Each student must submit a video that illustrates the theme for their category (see theme and age groups below). Videos must be a minimum of 90 seconds, and may not exceed 5 minutes. Category 1: Generosity is… Category 2: Sacrific WhoCategory 1: Homeschoolers* ages 10 to 14 as of January 1, 2010. * 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. Crew Guidelines
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Category Archives: Challenges and competitions
Children’s Book Awards:
Share your writing magic
New Zealand Post is proud to support the Children’s Book Awards.
And this year, we’re creating a commemorative collection of New Zealand Children’s Stories – written by New Zealand children! Send us your story and you could be one of our published writers.
What you could win
Each of our 50 winning entrants will receive $50 in Booksellers Tokens and their very own copy of the collection of winning entries – professionally illustrated and published! Plus, the school with the most entries will also receive $1000 worth of Booksellers Tokens.
Each week all entrants will go in our lucky prize draw to win a finalist book from the New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards 2010.
Or, if you’ve already written your story:
Competition is open to all year 1 – 8 school children and entries close on the
30th of April, 2010. View the Terms & Conditions of entry here.
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I have heard that Home Educators can enter this – so be sure to let them know that you are Home Educators
Free Range Robotics – New Zealand Homeschool Team
Please vote in the three categories: Essay, Video and Website:
Please Vote! See http://www.robotics.org.nz for more info.
This movie shows how a group of homeschoolers from Auckland, New Zealand competed in the Vex Robotics World Championship 2009 and won the World Programming Title, came first in their qualifying games, and third in the driving skills challenge – all in their first year.
This is their story.
For more information see:
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Free Range Robotics has entered the VEX Design Challenges and needs your help!
Free Range Robotics
has entered the VEX Design Challenges
and needs your help!
We are a New Zealand homeschool VEX Robotics team. If you haven’t heard of us before, then there is plenty of info at http://www.robotics.org.nz
We have three entries: our website, a team video, and an essay.
Please support us! Go to http://www.robotics.org.nz and click on the “Vote Here” link on the home page.
The link has all the instructions for voting.
The voting closes 20/03/2010 3:00pm (NZ time) –
Only two days left to vote!.
Quoting the challenge details for the website and video: “The community voting will determine seven of the ten finalists to be judged for the Award. Three additional submissions chosen by the VEX Advisory Council and the challenge partners will complete the group of ten finalists that move on to the last round of judging. The ten finalist entries will be scored with a weighted system including the community voting scores, scores given by the VEX Robotics Advisory Council and scores given by representatives from the presenting sponsors of the VEX Robotics Competition World Championship. The combined scores will determine the 2010 Award winner.”
And for the essay: “Submissions will be linked to from the RobotEvents.com Online Challenge website and will be scored by the viewing community. Submissions will be judged on a 50-point scale. The winning submissions will be chosen by the staff of Innovation First using the judging criteria. The top ten essays will be recognized online and will receive the prizes listed above.”
Prizes:
Website
- 1st: 2010 VEX Robotics Website Design Award, One VEX Robotics Classroom Lab Kit, Automatic Team Qualification for the 2010 VRC World Championship
- 2nd: One VEX Dual Control Starter Bundle
- 3rd: One VEX Protobot Robot Kit
Video
- 1st: 2010 VEX Robotics Promote Award, One VEX Robotics Clasroom Lab Kit including the Autodesk® VEX Robotics Curriculum, Automatic Team Qualification for the 2010 VRC World Championship
- 2nd: One VEX Dual Control Starter Bundle
- 3rd: One VEX Protobot Robot Kit
Essay
- $50 VEX Robotics Gift Certificate for top 10 entries
Thanks
Free Range Robotics (Homeschoolers)
Vex Robotics Team 2921
http://www.robotics.org.nz
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| Homeschool Team Win at 2009 Vex Robotics World Championships |  |
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| Written by Mark Lawton | |
| Friday, 08 May 2009 17:12 | |
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Auckland Homeschool Team Free Range Robotics took away two awards at the 2009 Vex Robotics World Championships held 30th April – 2nd May in Dallas, Texas. |
National Novel Writing Month
National Novel Writing Month – November
What is NaNoWriMo?
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.
Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It’s all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.
Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap. And that’s a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. To build without tearing down.
As you spend November writing, you can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.
In 2008, we had over 120,000 participants. More than 20,000 of them crossed the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.
So, to recap:
What: Writing one 50,000-word novel from scratch in a month’s time.
Who: You! We can’t do this unless we have some other people trying it as well. Let’s write laughably awful yet lengthy prose together.
Why: The reasons are endless! To actively participate in one of our era’s most enchanting art forms! To write without having to obsess over quality. To be able to make obscure references to passages from our novels at parties. To be able to mock real novelists who dawdle on and on, taking far longer than 30 days to produce their work.
When: You can sign up anytime to add your name to the roster and browse the forums. Writing begins November 1. To be added to the official list of winners, you must reach the 50,000-word mark by November 30 at midnight. Once your novel has been verified by our web-based team of robotic word counters, the partying begins.
Still confused? Just visit the How NaNoWriMo Works page!