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Opportunities for Students
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The Philadelphia Writing Project


The Holocaust Rememberance Project

NATIONAL PEACE ESSAY CONTEST 2011-2012 TOPIC AND QUESTION

EngineerGirl! Food Engineering Essay Contest - 2012

ESSAY CONTEST ON BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS

Penquin.com Announcing the 16th Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest

Registration for the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Enter the Exquisite Writing Contest

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The Philadelphia Writing Project
The Philadelphia Arts in Education Partnership (PAEP) and the Philadelphia Writing Project have been appointed the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers’ regional affiliate for southeastern Pennsylvania including the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia.

As the regional affiliate, PAEP and The Philadelphia Writing Project will administer the Scholastic Art and Writing Contest. All students from grades 7-12 are eligible to submit an entry or portfolio in art or writing or both. Submission guidelines are posted on the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers’ Website, www.artandwriting.org.

 Online registration is required for all students except seventh grade students, who can be registered through each representative organization. Teachers may also register enabling them to manage their students’ registration and submissions as well.

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Holocaust Remembrance Project
The Holocaust Remembrance Project invites high school students to write an essay to “analyze why it is vital that the remembrance, history and lessons of the Holocaust be passed to new generations; and suggest what you, as students, can do to combat and prevent prejudice, discrimination and violence in our world today.” Students can win scholarship money up to $10,000 and a trip to visit the new Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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NATIONAL PEACE ESSAY CONTEST 2011-2012 TOPIC AND QUESTION- Deadline Feb.1.2012

The Impact of New Media on Peacebuilding and Conflict Management

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EngineerGirl! Food Engineering Essay Contest - 2012

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ESSAY CONTEST ON BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS
Open to: Students Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, College Undergraduates
Request deadline: January 10, 2012
Submission deadline: January 31, 2012
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Penquin.com Announcing the 16th Annual Signet Classics Student Scholarship Essay Contest

Essay Subject
Emma, by Jane Austen

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Registration for the 2012 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
is now open! REGISTER NOW!


Scholastic Kids are Authors contest

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Enter the Exquisite Writing Contest
To help celebrate the publication of the Exquisite Corpse Adventure, Reading Rockets and AdLit.org announce the Exquisite Prompt Redux—a writing contest for kids in true exquisite corpse fashion. In the contest, the prompts for K-12 students to write about come from winning student entries from a previous writing contest. Kids have until November 30 to write the ending to a cliffhanger, a review of a magical object purchased from The Fairy Tale Catalog, a poem in the voice of the Whinoceros, or the adventures of two time travelers. Fabulous prizes include autographed books by Exquisite Corpse Adventure authors! Enter at www.readingrockets.org.

 

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