Free contest, Alexandria Tea Party Essay Contest, top prize: $100 (VA/ DC/ MD)

Deadline: 24 June 2011

Alexandria Tea Party in partnership with New Renaissance in Education (NRIE) invites entries to its Young Person's Essay Contest: What My Freedom Means to Me

Contest Guidelines

1. Contestants must be U.S. citizens or lawful U.S. residents under the age of 30 on July 4, 2011 who reside in Virginia, the District of Columbia, or Maryland. Active duty military legally domiciled in Virginia, D.C., and Maryland are also eligible.

2. There is no entry fee.

3. Submit one entry of 250 words or less in English on "What My Freedom Means to Me" no later than June 24, 2011 to contest@alexandriateaparty.com. Your entry must be an original work (not plagiarized) which has not previously appeared in any medium. Entries that exceed the prescribed length will not be considered.

4. Please provide the following attestation in your email - I hereby certify that I am a U.S. citizen or lawful resident, that I reside in --- [fill in D.C., Maryland, or Virginia], that I will be --- [fill-in] years of age on July 4, 2011, and that I am the sole author of this submission.

Enter your full name as your electronic signature

SIGNED: (your name here)

DATE: (month/dd/yyyy)

5. Entries will be judged primarily on the strength of the content. (However, poor grammar, punctuation, or spelling will not help your chances.) Any quotations or copyrighted material used in the essay must be properly identified in the text (no footnotes).

6. Entries not meeting these submission guidelines will be automatically disqualified.

7. Results are in the sole discretion of the Alexandria Tea Party.

Grand Prize - $100

Other Age-Group First Prize - $75

Age-Group Second Prize - $50

Age-Group Third Prize - $25

* age groups - 14 and below, 15-21, 22-29

* all winners will also receive an inspirational liberty-themed DVD

Winners will be announced and their entries read at the Alexandria Tea Party 4th of July event. Winners not present will be notified by email. Winning entries may be posted to ATP's website and used for other Alexandria Tea Party purposes, identified by first name, age, and jurisdiction only (DC/MD/VA). ATP may seek permission from the contestant if other attribution is desired.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: contest@alexandriateaparty.com

For submissions: contest@alexandriateaparty.com

Source: http://alexandriateaparty.com/

Free contest, AMOS Student Essay Competition 2011 (theme: atmospheric/ oceanographic science), top prize: $300

Deadline: 5 September 2011

AMOS is seeking review essays on any topic of atmospheric or oceanographic science for
the 2011 Student Essay Competition.

The winner will receive a prize of $300 and their essay will be published in the AMOS Bulletin. Honourable Mentions may also receive $100.

Word Limit: 5000 words

Target Audience: readers of the AMOS Bulletin

Entries are invited from current undergraduate university students (up to but not including Masters level). Why not adapt the literature review of your thesis, or turn that assignment you have slaved over into an entry, and give yourself a chance at winning $300 and of having a publication and prize to add to your CV? Finalists’ essays may also be published in the AMOS Bulletin.

Entries should be supplied via email as a pdf or in a format readable by Open Office, and accompanied by details of the entrant’s contact address and his or her university enrolment and a declaration that the essay is the student's own work..

Past copies of the AMOS Bulletin may be downloaded from:
http://www.amos.org.au/publications

For more details see the Education web page: http://www.amos.org.au/education
or contact the convener of the AMOS Education Committee, Philip Riley, at
p.riley@bom.gov.au.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: p.riley@bom.gov.au

For submissions: p.riley@bom.gov.au

Website: http://www.amos.org.au/education

Indonesian Chem-E-Car Competition 2011

Aims and Scope

The aim of this competition is the accurate design of the reaction to achieve a certain distance, for example by adjustment of a specific reactant. To design and construct a car that is powered with a chemical energy source that will carry a certain load to a given distance and stop. The car will be judged based on the combination of completion of a defined task, design creativity, and issues related to safety, environment and health as the model car handles chemical fuel.

All undergraduates is open for Indonesian (public universities and private universities) and international universities students of chemical and process engineering, chemistry, and further study courses are invited to contribute their know-how, creativity and ability to work in a team to succeed the provided task. The Chem-E-Car–competition consists of two parts, the poster presentation and the race. This set of rules describes the procedure of the competition as well as the determination of the winning team.

Registration

Registration cost per team 1.500.000 IDR
Domestic team (50% off)
*Including Bag, Free Lunch, T-Shirt, Program Books, Banquet, and Certificate.

Funding courtesy can be transferred to the following account:

Organizing Committee of Indonesian Chem-E-Car Competition 2011
Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Industrial Technology
Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Kampus ITS-Sukolilo, Surabaya 60111, Indonesia
Tel.: 031 – 5946240; Fax.: 031 – 5999282
website: http://chemecar2011.com / http://www.chemecar2011.chem-eng.its.ac.id,
email : chemecar2011@chem-eng.its.ac.id

u.p Nosky Pinanti Putri
Bank account : 0220096789
BNI Surabaya branch,
or
u.p M Irfan Wirandono
Bank account : 1880355763
BCA Kusuma Bangsa branch

Key Date

Registration and concept submission	August 31th, 2011
Submission of all relevant data sheets Inspection records List of hazardous materials	September 30th, 2011
Poster presentation and race	November 16th, 2011

Prizes and Winner

The winners of the competition will receive the following prizes :
1st place Rp 7.500.000,00 and the Chem-E-Car – trophy + Certificate
2nd place Rp 5.000.000,00 + Certificate
3rd place Rp 2.500.000,00  + Certificate
Poster Competition
1st place   : Certificates
2nd place  : Certificates
3rd place  : Certificates

Sumber:  http://chemecar2011.com/

PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST – SANT JUST DESVERN. Deadline: 24th of June 2011

II INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST – SANT JUST DESVERN.
Objective
The Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation (Agrupació Fotogràfica Sant Just Desvern) and the Shopkeepers and Traders Union (Unió de Botiguers i Comerciants de Sant Just Desvern) in collaboration with Sant Just Desvern’s council, is pleased to invite you to participate in the II International Photography Contest – Sant Just Desvern with the spirit to make our town known. Our goal is to organize a photography contest in which, among all the received pictures, a maximum of fifty will be selected to be exhibited in the balconies of Bonavista street in the town of Sant Just Desvern, in the district of Baix Llobregat. Finally, a jury of recognized technical competence in the field of photography will award the three best pictures. At the same time, during the exhibition, the II Popular Photography Contest* will take place. Anyone who wishes to do so can vote for the picture that they believe deserves to be awarded the first prize of the II International Photography Contest – Sant Just Desvern.
Call
The Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation (AFSantJust) in collaboration with the Shopkeepers and Traders Union (Unió de Botiguers i Comerciants de Sant Just Desvern) and the Sant Just Desvern’s council.
For more information please visit the Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation (Agrupació Fotogràfica Sant Just Desvern) website http://santjust.org/afsantjust/
Participation
Both amateur and professional photographers can participate in this contest, without limitation of nationality or place of residence. Registration is free.
Topic: Water
Presentation
Each participant can present up to three pictures.
The pictures should be uploaded on the website created for this purpose from the 23rd of april 2011. The link to this site will be given through the website previously metioned.
For more information please contact afsantjust@santjust.org.
The pictures submitted must not have been awarded in other competitions. The pictures must be original, and may not incorporate elements produced by others. The participants must manifest that they know the bases and accept them, indicating so in the corresponding box in the section of personal data on the contest website. With their acceptance, the participants declare and certify that they are the authors of the Work presented and that they don’t incorporate elements produced by others. Copies with content contrary to the right of honour, personal and familiar privacy, and/or the image of people will not be published nor accepted.
The photographic technique is free.
Sending and format
The pictures will be sent exclusively by Internet. Each participant must fill all the mandatory fields of the “register in the contest” (“date de alta del concurso”) section from the website, and must check the box confirming that he/she knows the bases and accepts them.
The absence of data or its inexactitude may result in the exclusion from the contest.
When sending the information, each participant may attach a maximum of three pictures. Their size must be 160X106 cm, RGB mode, with a minimum of 100 ppp, in horizontal format and in jpg.
Deadline for submission of pictures
From the 23rd of April to the 24th of June 2011 at 12p.m. (local time).
Prizes
The jury will select the best three pictures between the finalists:
1st prize: 1.500 €
2nd prize: 750 €
3rd prize: 300 €
The prizes will be subject to the retentions legally established.
The winners will be notified opportunely before the prize delivery by means of an electronic mail and/or a telephone call.
Verdict and prize delivery
Among the pictures obtained, the jury will select a maximum of fifty to be exposed. Objections on the outcome will not be admitted and the verdict is final.
The verdict of selection of the fifty pictures that will be exposed in Bonavista street will be published on the 30th of June 2011 on the Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation website, and will be communicated to the participants through an electronic mail and/or a telephone call. The opening ceremony of the exposition will take place the 16th of July 2011 at 12.00a.m. in Bonavista street.
The pictures selected will be exposed until the 15th of August 2011.
The jury’s final verdict will be made public during the Sant Just Desvern’s Fiesta Mayor, publishing the record in the Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation website.
The awards delivery will take place during the Sant Just Desvern’s Fiesta Mayor.
Copyright
The authors of the pictures selected and awarded give the Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation the right of use, diffusion, distribution, public communication, exhibition and reproduction that correspond to promotional and/or cultural purposes, being always included in the picture the name of the author.
The participants guarantee and take responsibility, in front of the organisation, of the compliance of the provisions on intellectual property and copyright for the submitted pictures, declaring that its diffusion and/or reproduction within the contest and its bases doesn’t harm nor damage others, and they assume personally any responsibility that could derive from it.
Jury
It will be formed by three members of recognised technical competence in the field of photography.
The criterion of the jury will be based on the technical quality, the aesthetics, the originality and the creativity.
No objections about the results will be admitted and the verdict is final for all purposes.
Notes
The organisation keeps its right to introduce the modifications it finds necessary and to solve any unforeseen contingency. The organisation and the participants accept the regulation of these bases.
For more information please visit the Sant Just Desvern Photographic Agrupation www.santjust.org/afsantjust/, Shopkeepers and Traders Union (UBIC) www.santjust.org/UBIC and Sant Just Desvern’s council www.santjust.cat websites.
PDF in English
PDF in Spanish
PDF in Spanish

Source : http://thecuratorship.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/photography-contest-%E2%80%93-sant-just-desvern-deadline-24th-of-june-2011/

Writing Competition Open Fiction Competition (Deadline June 2011)

To be in with a chance of winning any one of our fantastic prizes, simply write the best story that you can and submit it to us by the closing date.

The theme is open so your story really can be on any subject or in any style. Be as creative and as imaginative with your entry as you like.

Word count is a maximum 2000.

Submissions must be original and previously unpublished.

Send your submission within the body of the email to info@creative-competitor.co.uk and mark the subject line Open Fiction Competition

If you are a Creative Competitor Premier 1 subscriber and can enter any or all of our competitions for free, then please remember to also add your membership number to the subject line.

If you are in the UK and wish to submit your entry by post and pay by cheque, check out the details here

As our writing competitions are for money, writers must be 18 and over to win a cash prize.

Please note that it can take some time for our writing competitions to be judged and the winners announced. The length of time is dependant on the number of submissions received. We take the judging process very seriously and ensure that the best submission wins. This means that each submission is read and re-read to build up a high quality short list and then the process begins again.

Entry to this or any of our competitions implies acceptance to our rules.

PRIZE

1. 1st Prize : £500.00
2. 2nd Prize : £250.00
3. 3rd Prize : £100.00
4. 4th Prize : £75.00
5. 5th Prize : £50.00
6. 6th Prize : Personal e-Coaching Sesssion
7. 7th Prize : 3 Months Premier 1 Membership

Closing Date : 5th June 2011

Entry Fee : £5.00

SOURCE

The eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011

Capture this! How ICTs are empowering people across Africa –
The eLearning Africa Photo Competition 2011

The 2nd eLearning Africa Photo Competition aims to capture how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can nurture talent, skills and innovation across Africa. We invite you to send us your photos that depict outstanding achievements in Africa - empowered by ICTs, or that show innovative ways in which ICTs can foster the growth of people, communities and society.

Photo Competition 2010

We are looking for your contributions from any sector of life – be it health, agriculture, business, community life or education – innovation is everywhere and it can come from every single one of us!
To find out more and spread the word, eLearning Africa 2011 is launching a new photo competition, encouraging people across Africa to Capture this! How ICTs are empowering people across Africa. Send us a picture that shows how ICTs have really made a difference to how you live, learn and work with ICTs and, along with it, forward us a brief description of the idea or project behind your entry. You can win a top-quality digital camera and other useful technical gadgets.

The prizes

1. Canon Power Shot S90 photo camera
2. Asus Eee PC R105, a high quality low-power netbook
3. Flip Ultra HD Camcorder

The members of the jury will select the winner and the ten best photos will be featured in an exhibition from May 25th – 27th at eLearning Africa 2011 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The winners will be announced on this website.

Participation in the contest is free.

The deadline for entries is April 21st, 2011.
Late entries will not be considered. The winners will be informed by e-mail four weeks after the closing date at the latest. The prize can neither be transferred nor paid out in cash.

 Source : http://www.elearning-africa.com/photo_competition_home.php

$7,500 for Brief Writing over Spring Break? April 15 deadline

APRIL 15th DEADLINE APPROACHING FOR LEGAL BRIEF WRITING CONTEST
$7,500 PRIZE
TUPPER LAKE, NY - On Friday, November 19th 2011, the newly created Tupper Lake Business Community, Inc. announced a writing contest that is being submitted to law schools around the country, seeking students who are interested in preparing a brief concerning the influences that have had a negative effect on the Adirondack economy.

Full details and rules regarding the contest are posted online at http://tlbusiness.org

First prize for the writing contest will be $7,500; second prize $2,000; and third prize $500. All brief submissions must be received by April 15th. The panel of judges will be announced in the near future.

Committee Spokespeople Mark Moeller and Beth Johnson told the group of nearly 50 people, that there has been tremendous attention given to the environment in the Adirondack Park, with little regard to the economy. Moeller noted, "the intent of the contest is to have the law students from around the country review the influences on local businesses as well as on the regulatory agencies within the Adirondack Park, by outside parties and preservationist advocacy groups, and to prepare a brief that will be judged by a panel of experts in order to highlight and quantify the impact those influences have had on the economy and the people of the Adirondacks."

Johnson added, "we believe this group supports the true intent of the Adirondack Park Act, and believes the staff of the Adirondack Park Agency are true professionals that care about the environment and economy of the Park. This effort is not directed at them." Johnson went on to say, "there are groups who have had an undue adverse impact on our economy, and have used tactics that have come at a great cost to the local economies within the Park."

Moeller also clarified the difference between this group and ARISE. "The TLBC group has a very narrow focus with donations going for a specific purpose. ARISE has a more broad approach, and they are not set up for this type of advocacy."

The writing contest will focus specifically on Tupper Lake, knowing that much of the information provided by the students, will have a regional implication.

Attorneys Doug Wright and Kirk Gagnier, have been in contact with top law schools and, gauging the reaction by some of the professors, have reported that there seems to be overwhelming excitement about the project. Gagnier said, "there is a growing trend across the country, that advocacy group influence has come at a quantifiable cost, and this writing contest will offer a legal opinion on the impact felt in Tupper Lake."

Wright added, "there has been no discussion of this leading to a legal suit against any groups or individuals. This is an educational, research based effort that will be reviewed carefully after the submissions are made."

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Tupper Lake Business Community, Inc. is a New York not-for-profit association of businesses, formed to aggressively solicit information and solutions from various groups to advance the business environment in upstate New York, specifically Tupper Lake. More information is available at http://tlbusiness.org.