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Youth Contests
- 2010-2011 Smokey Bear & Woodsy Owl
- Poster Contest
Here is what YOU and YOUR students can do to help the environment:
We’re inviting 1st through 5th grade students to demonstrate through original drawings of Smokey Bear or Woodsy Owl their understanding of fire prevention and basic environmental conservation principles.
The Grand Prize National Poster Contest Winner will win a free round trip airfare and accommodations for four to Washington, DC. A $100 U.S. Savings Bond will also be awarded to the First Place National Winners from each grade level sponsored by the National Garden Clubs, Inc.
More Tips for a Successful Poster:
- 1. Children will select either one of the icons (Smokey Bear or Woodsey Owl) to enter.
- 2. Since Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl are official icons, protected by
- Congressional law, the colors of their clothing need to be accurate.
- Check the colors on the website National Symbols Cache.
- 3. You must follow the rules that include how you identify the poster.
- 4. Please check the spelling. Posters with misspelling errors will be
- disqualified.
Deadline to GCFP Chairman: January 20, 2011
GCFP SMOKEY BEAR/WOODSY OWL CHAIRMAN
- Iris Cisarik
- 1138 Wightman Street
- Pittsburgh, PA 15217-1050
- 412-621-0954
- NGC Youth Activities-Poetry Contest
- 2010-2011 Theme--"Fields of Daffodils"
The time has arrived to explore the different types of poetry that our youth can use to express their creative ideas. This year's theme for the poetry contest is "Fields of Daffodils". Use your imagination and join the winners to see your poetry in print!
Eligibility:
Kindergarten through Ninth Grade
Special Education: Kindergarten through Ninth Grade
Subject Title:
"Fields of Daffodils"
Contest Rules:
- All entries must be typed and titled
- Include name, address, age, and school grade of the participant on the back of the entry
- Sponsoring garden club must also be identified
- All entries become the property of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
- Poems don't have to rhyme
- Poems may be traditional verse, acrostics, bland verse, cinquains, diamond poems or Haiku
Scale of Points:
- Title: 10 points
- Content: 40 points
- Creativity: 30 points
- Style: 20 points
- 100 total
Deadlines:
- Entries to the GCFP State Youth Chairmen--December 1, 2010
- State winning entries to CAR Youth Chairmen--January 1, 2011
- Regional winners to NGC Youth Chairman--February 1, 2011
GCFP Entries, send to:
Grades Kindergarten through 6th Grade (both divisions):
Grades 7th through 9th (both divisions):
- Ann Stromberg
- GCFP Youth Activities Chairman K--6
- 716 Shaw Avenue
- McKeesport, PA 15132-2333
Note: Only regional winners are considered in the judging for national winners. Contest winners will not be allowed to win in two consecutive years. The winning entries will be compiled into a booklet, which will be made available to the winners.
National Award:
First Place in each grade in each division will receive a Certificate of Commendation.
- NGC Youth Activities Chairman
- Johnna-Claire Metz
- 1249 E. 28th St.
- Brooklyn, NY 11210-4626
- (718) 377-7263
- NGC Youth Activities
- High School Essay Contest
- 2010-2011 Theme--"The Environment--Our Personal Responsibility"
Eligibility:
Open to all High School students, 9th through 12th grade.
Must be sponsored by: single garden club, group of member clubs, councils or districts; or a State Garden Club.
Subject Title:
"The Environment--Our Personal Responsibility"
Contest Rules:
Length of Essay--between 500-600 words. All words are to be counted. Students should write the essay so it is suitable to be published in the NGC publication, The National Gardener. The entry will be penalized if the essay doesn't conform to the required length.
All entries become the property of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
Scale of Points:
- Content-65
- Knowledge of Subject--25
- Practicality of Proposal--10
- Originality--15
- Subject Matter Well Organized--15
- Composition-25
- Vocabulary--15
- Conformance to Length--10
- Manuscript-10
- Wallet-size photograph, Name, Address, Phone Number, School Attending, Grade, List of Activities, and Sponsoring Club--5
- Neatness-Legibility (A plastic folder keeps the manuscript neat)--5
National Award:
A $1,000 National Garden Club Scholarship will be awarded to the National Winner. If the Winner is an underclassman, the $1,000 Scholarship will be held by NGC, Inc. without accrued interest, until such time that the student enters college. At that time, the money will be forwarded to the Financial Aid Officer of the college the student will enter. The second place winner will receive $100.00.
Deadlines:
- Entries to the GCFP State Youth Chairmen--December 1, 2010
- State winning entries to CAR Youth Chairmen--January 1, 2011
- Regional winners to NGC Youth Chairman--February 1, 2011
GCFP Entries, send to:
- Ruth Berry
- GCFP Youth Activities Chairman 7-12
- 340 College Lodge Rd
- Indiana, PA 15701-4009
Note: Only regional winners are considered in the judging for national winners.
- Elva H. Davidson
- NGC Essay Contest Chairman
- 31136 Cheltenham Rd
- Lewes, DE 19958
- 302-645-7677
GCFP Youth Gardening Chairmen phone numbers can be found in the 2009 Directory Issue of The Keystone Gardener.
Youth Sculpture Contest
Purpose: To encourage youth to keep our planet green and to get involved with saving our planet
Contest Rules:
- 1. Children in 4th grade through 8th grade will be eligible to enter the contest
- 2. Width of the sculpture can be no more than 8 1/2" x 11"
- 3. Height should be proportional to width
- 4. Sculpture Contest Entry Form
- 5. Entries should include as many photographs as can be printed on the back of the entry form but 2-4x6 photographs are recommended
- 6. Entries should be submitted to the State Chairman, Ruth Berry by January 1, 2011, state winners to the Central Atlantic Region Chairman by March 1, 2011 and Region winners to the National Chairman, Suzanne Potts by May 1, 2011
Complete Sculpture Contest Rules
If you need additional information, do not hesitate to contact Suzanne Potts