2001-2002 ESSAY CONTEST-B

Subject: War and Peace

First Prize     = $100

Second Prize = $  75

Third Prize    = $  50

Anyone may enter. There are three categories:

(1) Schools that submit a minimum of ten essays from one class.

Three prizes will be awarded to every school that submits a minimum of ten qualifying entries.

(2) Schools with fewer than ten students submitting essays.

They will have their essays merged with other schools in the same situation and judged as one school.

(3) Individuals of any age.

They will find their work displayed as Unaffiliated and their essays will be judged with others in this category.  Never will an essay be judged against more than 30 essays in any category.

Participants should select quotations and review the guidelines before beginning their essays.

All participants will receive certificates and their essays will be published online.

The prizes will be awarded at the discretion of the Singer Foundation. Peer-participants, according to rules detailed below, will do the judging.

Papers may be emailed to contest@singerfoundation.org anytime before March 25, 2002.

Rules

  1- Email submittals only

All essays must be submitted via email. Do not send print copies.

  We suggest that the most computer-literate student in the class assume the responsibility for seeing that all essays reach the Foundation via email. Floppies can be brought from home and sent via a school computer and modem or submitted from a home with the teacher's permission.

 Please do not submit essays until all are ready. The body of the email should list the name of the school, school fax and phone numbers, teacher’s name and email address and the name of every student-participant exactly as he/she would like it to appear on a certificate. We will accept essays as attached MS Word documents, plain text or Rich Text Format (rtf) or as text copied into the body of an email. We are not responsible for documents that are lost or distorted during transmission or that reach us in a format that we cannot open.

  2- Grammar and Spelling Check

All essays must be checked for grammatical and spelling errors and be no less than 750 words nor more than 1,000 words in length.

  3- Format

Use Olga’s essay as an example of the desired format for individual essays.

line 1= name of school

line 2 = town andstate

line 3 = title of essay

line 4 = student's name

line 5 = grade

Note the spacing and font.

4- Photos

If you want student photos displayed, send email attachments clearly labeled with the student’s name.

Example of student photo

5- Judging

As an additional learning experience, teachers must agree to have their students’ essays judged by students from another school and to have their own students judge another school’s essays. Click here to print the Guidelines For Judging.  The Foundation will assign a school to be judged after receiving your essays.  

Please be sure to keep copies at your end until you receive your awards.

Essays will be posted on the Foundation web site as they are read. Entries, upon submittal, become the property of The Harry Singer Foundation.

If you have questions or problems: email staff@singerfoundation.org or phone (831) 625-4223   fax (831) 624-7994        

Address surface mail correspondence to:

Essay Contest, The Harry Singer Foundation,
P.O. Box 223159, Carmel, CA 93922

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