Computer Security Awareness Poster & Video Contest 2009

Type: Video Contest and Poster Contest

Eligibility: Contest participants must currently be enrolled in and actively attending a college or university.

Deadline: April 30th 2009.

How to Enter the Contest:

To enter the contest, you will need to complete and submit the online entry submission form. The online submission form will be available on the ResearchChannel's website starting in January 2009. Posters and videos must explain computer security problems. Two categories of videos are being sought: videos of two minutes or less for use in training or instruction, and 30-second public service announcements (PSAs). Posters may be submitted separately or combined with a video for a “combined entry” (poster and video to be used in a security awareness campaign).

Prizes:

• The gold winners will receive $1,000.
• The silver winners will receive $800.
• The bronze winners will receive $400.

URL Contest: Computer and Network Security Task Force

U.S. Olympic Committee 2008 Sport & Music Competition

Type: Music Contest

Eligibility: Open to U.S. Musicians. (Must be a U.S. citizen)

Deadline: 1 April 2008

How to Enter the Contest: Theme: “Sport and Olympism”

E-mail audio files to Robert Zimlich, Curator, or mail a CD to:
USOC Music Competition, One Academy Drive, Daphne, AL, 36526, by 1 April 2008
Contact: 251-626-3303

Prizes: first prize is $15,000

URL Contest: United States Sports Academy

International Gaza Cartoon Contest - 2008

Type: Cartoon Contest

Eligibility: To all the professional and amateur cartoonists regardless their age from all over the world

Deadline: April 30,2008.

How to Enter the Contest:

Theme: DEATH IN GAZA, PALESTINIAN PEOPLE ARE DYING, HELP US!

The number of sent cartoons is five.

Please attach in .doc format a brief presentation of your artistic activity (surname and first name, address, e-mail address, a photo and your CV).

The cartoons must be sent at the e-mail address: info@irancartoon.com and they must be of 100 dpi resolution, 1200 Pixel( Horizontal or Vertical) and JPG format.

Prizes:

- First prize - 3000 EURO

- Second prize - 2000 EURO

-Third prize - 1000 EURO

URL Contest: Tabriz Cartoons

Great American Baby Photo Contest

Type: Photo Contest

Eligibility: Open to legal residents of the United States and the District of Columbia, residing in the United States and the District of Columbia, who are (a) 18 years of age or older and (b) the parent or legal guardian of a child that is between 0-48 months of age at the time of entering the Contest.

Deadline: Last day of every month.

How to Enter the Contest: Go online to Great American Website and complete the registration form. Provide all requested information in the fields contained in the entry form in its entirety, including your full name, postal address, phone number, email address (where available), age and gender of the baby that is the subject of the photograph and your relationship to the baby, submit the entry form, and upload up to six current photographs of your child. Submitted photographs may not be digitally, or otherwise, altered. Any winning photograph found to be altered will be disqualified from winning. Entrant must be the owner of the photograph, or otherwise have the right to submit the photograph for consideration in the Contest. Online entries will be accepted on a monthly basis beginning February 1, 2008. All entries must be received by 11:59:59 p.m. EST on the last day of the month in order to be eligible to win the Contest

Prizes: $2,500.00

URL Contest: Great American Website

2008 Wabash Prize for Fiction

Type: Writing Contest

Deadline and reading fee: March 15, 2008. 10$

How to Enter the Contest: Submit one story or collection of related short shorts per standard entry. Please do not send excerpts or chapters of novels. Entries may be no more than 10,000 words. All entries must be typed and must include a cover letter with author's name and contact information (address, telephone, and email address) as well as the titles and word counts of all entries submitted. The author’s name may not be on the manuscript itself. Manuscript pages should be numbered and should include the title of the piece. Work should be double spaced.

MAIL ENTRIES TO:

2008 Wabash Prize for Fiction
Sycamore Review
Department of English
500 Oval Drive
Purdue University
West Lafayette , IN 47907

Prizes: $1,000

URL Contest: Sycamore Review

Poetry Center Prizes - First Book Competition & Open Competition

Type: Poetry Contest

Eligibility: Mss. are eligible for the First Book competition if the author has not published or commited to publish a collection of his or her poetry in a book of 48 more pages with a press run of at least 500 copies. Entry to the Open Competition is limited to authors who have published at least one full-length poetry collection

Deadline and reading fee: March 1, 2008. 25$

How to Enter the Contest:

• ms. should contain a minimum of 48 pages of poetry
• ms. pages should be numbered and a table of contents included
• include one cover page with title, your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address
• your name should not appear anywhere else on the ms.
• include a second cover page containing only title
• clearly indicate on the outside of the mailing envelope and on each cover page “First Book” or “Open Competition” (see Eligibility)
• do not include a cover letter or biographical information
• include an acknowledgements page, listing any previously published books or poems, if applicable
• check or money order payable to Cleveland State University

MAIL ENTRIES TO:
Cleveland State University
Poetry Center Prizes
please specify: First Book or Open Competition
Department of English
2121 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214

Prizes: In each category - $1,000

URL Contest: Cleveland State University

National Wildlife's 2008 Photo Contest

Type: Photo Contest

Eligibility: Open to ALL photographers who are at least 13 years of age.

Deadline and entry fees: July 1, 2008, $15.

How to Enter the Contest:
Photographers must enter their images in one of the following divisions.
Pro - Full or part-time professional photographers who receive all or a major part of their income from nature photography.
Amateur - Beginning or amateur photographers at least 18 years of age, and experienced photographers who do not receive a major part of their income from nature photography.
Youth - Young photographers ages 13 to 17. Young photographers 12 and under.
Photographers entering in the Pro and Amateur divisions must enter each image in one of the following categories. Photographers entering the Youth division do not need to specify a category, but images must follow the subject matter of one of the categories. Judges reserve the right to switch images to other categories.
1. Mammals—Portraits and Behavior
2. Birds—Portraits and Behavior
3. Other Wildlife—Portraits and Behavior (includes underwater life, reptiles, amphibians, insects, spiders and more)
4. Backyard Habitats—Wild Creatures, Native Plants and Natural Settings in Your Yard
5. Connecting People and Nature—People Enjoying the Outdoors
6. Landscapes and Plant Life—Scenic Views and Native Plants in Wild Settings
Each participant may submit up to 20 photographs total. All images must be digitally uploaded.

Prizes:
Grand Prize - $5,000
First Place - $1,000

URL Contest: National Wildlife®

The Pilsner Urquell International Photography Awards 2008

Type: Photo Contest

Eligibility: Open to anyone 21 years of age or older, from any country. Professional photographers will be judged against other professionals and non-professionals against other non-professionals and students.

Deadline and entry fees: April 30, 2008. Professional Photographers - $35, Non-professional Photographers - $25, Student Photographers - $15.

How to Enter the Contest:
Professionals must submit their work online or via CD. Prints may only be submitted as visual reference. Online submissions must be no longer than 800 pixels on the longest side and saved as Jpegs (.jpg) and not exceed 2MB each file.
Non-professionals may submit prints (color or B/W) and digital files. Prints or mounts may not exceed 11x14 inches in size. Do not submit original slides or negatives. Digital submissions must be no longer than 800 pixels on the longest side and saved as Jpegs (.jpg) and not exceed 2MB each file.

IPA Competition Categories

Address:
International Photography Awards
844 S. Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
310.659.0122
info@photoawards.com

Prizes:
Professional Photographers - $10 000
Non-professional Photographers - $5 000

URL Contest: International Photography Competition Awards

BetterPhoto.com® Cash Photo Contest

Type: Photo Contest

Eligibility: Anyone can participate. Regardless of whether you are a professional or an amateur, a digital shooter or a film lover, an outdoor enthusiastic or a studio photographer, you can enter the contest.

Deadline and entry fees: Last day of every month. 1 Photo - $4.95, 5 Photos - $14,95, 10 Photos - $24,95.

How to Enter the Contest:
Select your entry purchase option. Upload photos into your Member Center. On the "Your Photos" page in your Member Center, click the "Enter Into Cash Contest" button.

Prizes:
First Place winner receives $1,000
Second Place winner receives $500

URL Contest: BetterPhoto.com®

Twentieth Annual Law Student Essay 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Any student regularly enrolled in and attending classes at an accredited law school in the United States or Canada is eligible to enter.

Deadline: June 2, 2008

How to Enter the Contest:
Submission of a paper, and 10 copies, with one cover page and the completed entry form constitutes entry. Essays submitted for the 2008 competition must be under the category of “Search and Seizure Arising from Motor Vehicle Stops.” Essays determined not to meet this qualification will not be evaluated. The cover page of the paper shall include the title and the author’s name, current mailing and email addresses and telephone number and shall be attached only to the original essay. The author’s name should appear only on the cover page and the entry form. The title and page number must appear at the top of each page of the paper. Sent to American Judges Association, Law Student Essay Competition, 300 Newport Avenue, Williamsburg, VA 231854147.

Prizes:
The first prize for the contest is $3,000; second is $1,500;
and third is $1,000.

URL Contest: AMERICAN JUDGES ASSOCIATION

Bert W. Levit Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to Young Lawyers' Division or Law Student Division members of the ABA, in good standing as of February 16, 2008, according to the membership records of the Association.

Deadline: February 22, 2008

How to Enter the Contest:
The 2008 Contest Essay Hypothetical relates to the legal standards controlling legal malpractice claims brought by persons convicted of crimes. Entries should be written as scholarly essays. All entries must be prepared for this contest and not previously published. Each entrant is required to assign to the ABA all rights, title and interest in the essay submitted. It is the policy of the ABA, however, to release all assigned rights in all but the winning essay.
Essays should not exceed 3,000 words, including quoted matter and citations. Footnotes are not permitted and citations should be incorporated into the main text.
The essay should be typewritten double-spaced on 8 1/2 " x 11" pages.
If you would like to submit your entry electronically, you will need to fill out and submit the Contest Entry & Agreement Form (Online) with your essay attached. Your essay should not exceed 2.5 MB and should be in one of the following formats: MS Word, Word Perfect, Adobe PDF, TXT, RTF, or HTML. If you would prefer to submit your entry by mail, you will need to download, print, and fill out one of our paper Contest Entry & Agreement Form. The completed form, and two copies of your essay should be mailed first-class, without folding, to:
American Bar Association
LPL Levit Essay Contest
Rochelle Betts
FL 19
321 North Clark Street
Chicago, IL 60610

Prizes:
$5,000 prize & a free trip to the Spring 2008 National Legal Malpractice Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

URL Contest: American Bar Association

KaiserEDU.org invites to submit an original essay

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to all students enrolled in a degree-granting program at a university or college at the time of submission.

Deadline: March 17, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
Topic:
The date is November 24th, 2008. You have just started a job as an analyst working on the President-elect's health care transition team. The director of the transition team has asked you to draft a memo to flesh out the health priorities for the new Administration on a major health policy issue. Select an issue area and a candidate (from the list below) and identify the major policies or strategies that the Administration could develop to advance this issue. Issue Areas: Controlling Healthcare Costs, Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Expanding Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Efforts, Improving Women's Health, Improving the Quality of Health Care. Presidential Candidates (as of 1/22/2008):
Democrats
- Hillary Clinton
- John Edwards
- Mike Gravel
- Dennis Kucinich
- Barack Obama
Republicans
- Rudy Giuliani
- Mike Huckabee
- Alan Keyes
- John McCain
- Ron Paul
- Mitt Romney
Essays must not exceed 800 words in length. (References do not count towards 800-word limit.) Entries must be in English. Essays must be double-spaced and no smaller than 11pt font. Each page must be numbered. Do NOT put your name on the essay or on the filename. Your name should only be on the online registration form. Documents should be written in Microsoft Word, Text or PDF. Entries must be submitted ONLINE ONLY. No emails will be accepted.

Prizes:
First Prize: $1,000
Second Prize: $500

URL Contest: KaiserEDU.org

The George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to all students who are United States citizens or legal aliens. Contestants shall be attending public, parochial, or private high schools (including accredited home schools). Contestants shall be in the sophomore, junior or senior grade of study during the contest year.

Deadline: December 31, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
The contest is for an original researched and proven topic written in English. The topic of the essay shall deal with: an event, person, philosophy, or ideal associated with the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, or the framing of the United States Constitution. The essay must have four parts: A) title page, B) essay pages, C) bibliography (works cited), and D) contestant's biography. The title page must include the title of the essay, contestant's name, address, telephone number, and email address (if available). In addition, the title page must include the name, address, and telephone number of the high school in which the contestant is enrolled, and the contestant's grade level.
The essay must have a minimum of 800 words and not exceed 1,200 words (excluding title page, footnotes, bibliography page, and biography page).
The contest is conducted in three phases: local (Chapter), state (State Society) and National. The contest must be entered through a Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution near the student's residence.

Prizes:
First place: $2,000; a winning recognition certificate and medal; airfare and one night hotel stay for the winner and a chaperone at the SAR Annual Congress (in Sacramento, CA in July 2008)
Second Place: $1,000
Third Place: $ 500

URL Contest: Sons of the American Revolution

The Humanist Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to students residing in the United States or Canada who are enrolled in grades 9-12 as of the entry deadline of March 3, 2008.

Deadline: March 3, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
Essays applying head and heart to any subject or field of endeavor are welcome. The definition of humanism used to guide the judging of essays appears on the inside front cover of each Humanist. For topic ideas, recent issues of the Humanist may be useful. Essays should be 1,500-2,500 words, written in English, single-spaced. Please provide your name, age, date of birth, mailing address (no post office boxes), telephone number, and email address on the title page of your essay (so we can readily contact you if your are a finalist or winner). Only one essay may be submitted by each entrant. Emailed to contest@theHumanist.org.

Prizes:
1st Prize: $1,000, three-year membership to the AHA and an invitation to present your essay at the Annual Conference of the American Humanist Association, June 6-8, 2008 in Washington, DC (does not include travel expenses)

URL Contest: The Humanist Magazine

Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to students worldwide. Entrant must be enrolled in a college degree program at the time of entry. High school students entering college in the fall of 2008 are also eligible.

Deadline: September 17, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
TOPICS
1. Why do Dagny and Rearden oppose the strikers in action?
2. Explain Ragnar Danneskjold’s statement that Robin Hood is the one man he is out to destroy. What is the deeper moral meaning of his claim?
3. For each of the following three passages from Atlas Shrugged, explain its meaning and its relation to the story and theme of the novel.
a. Galt: "In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube.”
-Part Three, Chapter VII
b. Dagny: “We never had to take any of it seriously, did we?”
Galt: “No, we never had to.”
-Part Three, Chapter I
c. Francisco: “You have a great deal of courage, Dagny. Some day, you’ll have enough of it.”
-Part One, Chapter V

A stapled cover sheet MUST include: name and address of entrant; entrant's e-mail address (if available); name and address of entrant's university; topic selected (1, 2 or 3 from list above); and your declared major.
Essay must be no fewer than 800 and no more than 1,600 words in length, and must be typewritten and double-spaced. One entry per student, please.

Submit your essay online or mail your essay with stapled cover sheet to:
Atlas Shrugged Essay Contest, Dept. W
The Ayn Rand Institute
P.O. Box 57044
Irvine, CA 92619-7044

Prizes:
FIRST PRIZE: $10,000
3 SECOND PRIZES: $2,000
5 THIRD PRIZES: $1,000
20 FINALISTS: $100
20 SEMIFINALISTS: $50

URL Contest: The Ayn Rand Institute

Renesas HEW Target Server Design Contest 2008

Type: Programming Contest

Eligibility: Any individual or group of individuals entering the Renesas HEW Target Server Design Contest 2008 must be 18 years of age or older.

Deadline: July 4, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
Register for the Contest at www.RenesasInteractive.com/HTScontest2008/register. Optionally, and while supplies last, you may choose to receive a Contest kit. Requests for Contest kits require Contestant to spend a minimum of 30 minutes in a RenesasInteractive VirtuaLab and pass a short VirtuaLab quiz. Create your Entry (An “Entry” is a complete design including all documentation, code, schematics, materials, designs, etc. that are submitted as directed herein for consideration in the Contest). If needed, development kits and chip samples can be obtained at www.Renesas.com. Digitally submit your Entry using the online Entry form at: www.RenesasInteractive.com/HTScontest2008/entry_form

Prizes:
The prizes awarded are as follows: $5,000 First Prize; $3,000 Second Prize; $2,000 Third and Five $1,000 Honorable Mention prizes will be awarded.

URL Contest: Renesas Technology Corp.

Scuba Diving Photo contest 2008

Type: Photo Contest

Eligibility: The competition is open to photographers anywhere in the world.

Deadline and entry fees: March 15, 2008. The fees are $10 per entry.

How to Enter the Contest:
You can compete in four categories: Marine Life, Macro, Wide-Angle, Topside.
All entries must be digital files on CD-ROM accompanied by an official entry form or facsimile and entry fees.
Mail to:
Scuba Diving Photo Contest
6600 Abercorn St., Ste 208
Savannah, GA 31405

Prizes:
$1,000 cash and a dive trip for one on the Komodo Dancer, Indonesia courtesy of Reef & Rainforest.

URL Contest: Scuba Diving

Condoleezza Rice wants to know what you think about The Challenges Facing The American Foreign Service In The 21st Century (Essey Contest 2008)

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: All students in grades nine through 12 attending a public, private, parochial school, home school or participating in a high school correspondence program in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, or U.S. territories, or, if they are U.S. citizens attending schools overseas, are eligible.

Timing: April 15, 2008

How to Enter the Contest:
In 750 to 1,000 words, discuss the following topic:
Analyze and explain what you think will be the Challenges Facing the American Foreign Service in the 21 st Century
In writing your essay, use the following as your guideline:
* Select one or several specific international issues that you think will be major challenges to the American Foreign Service in carrying out a successful U.S. foreign policy in the new century, and explain why you have chosen these issues.
* Describe and analyze the role of members of the United States Foreign Service in conducting diplomacy to resolve one or more of these particular issues and discuss the immediate consequences.
* Keep in mind the United States national interests include, among other issues: national security, countering terrorism, protection of American citizens, human rights, democratization, free market economics, free trade, and sustainable economic development.

Submit four collated copies of your essay, with title page, numbered and including sources. Attach and staple one registration form to your completed essay. All submissions must include a word count, excluding the list of sources and the registration form. Entries must be typed, double-spaced, in 12-point Times New Roman or an equivalent font with a one-inch margin on all sides of the page. Standards of content and style from MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6th ed., will be expected for (1) documentation of sources in the text of your essay (see chapter 5); (2) the format of the list of works cited (see sample page at end of the MLA Handbook); and (3) margins and indentation (see sample page also of Handbook). You must include your name, home address, phone number, an e-mail address and the name and address of your school and/or sponsor. Attach and staple one registration form to your completed essay. You and your teacher must sign this registration form.

Mail four legible, collated copies of your essay, with a title and pages numbered, all attached to one copy of your registration form, to:
Ms. Perri Green
National High School Essay Contest
American Foreign Service Association
2101 E Street NW
Washington, DC 20037

Prizes:
$2500 TO WINNER
$500 TO WINNER’S SCHOOL

URL Contest: AFSA

Canon New Baby Photo Contest 2008

Type: Photo Contest

Eligibility: Open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia who are at least eighteen (18) years old at the time of entry and are not a professional photographer.

Timing: December 1, 2007 - May 31, 2008

How to Enter the Contest: During the Submission Phase, visit www.canonestore.com/babyphoto and follow the links and instructions to upload one photo of your baby. By submission of a Photo, you grant permission to Sponsor to post your Photo to an online viewing gallery during the Submission phase. After submission and verification that your Photo conforms to the Guidelines and Restrictions (defined below), your Photo may appear in the online viewing gallery throughout the Submission Phase. Baby featured in the Photo must be less than one year of age at the time of entry. You must be the parent or legal guardian of the Baby and you must be the original photographer of the Photo (or received a written release in a form acceptable to the Sponsor from the copyright holder of the Photo).
Photo Guidelines:
* The Photo must be in .jpg format;
* The Photo must have a file size no greater than 4 MB;
* Photo submitted must only include the image of one child;
* The Photo cannot have been submitted previously in a promotion of any kind or previously exhibited or displayed publicly through any means; and
* The Photo must be from a single capture with any digital or film camera; no montages or composite images allowed.

Prizes:
ONE GRAND PRIZE: $10,000 in the form of a check.
THREE FIRST PRIZES: A Canon EOS® 40D Digital SLR Camera and a Canon SELPHY® ES2 Compact Photo Printer. Approximate Retail Value (“ARV”): $1,700.
THREE SECOND PRIZES: A Canon PowerShot® Digital ELPH Camera and a $200 Gift Certificate to Babies R’ Us. ARV: $550.
TEN THIRD PRIZES: A Canon PIXMA® MP970 Photo All-In-One and $100 Gift Certificate to Babies R’ Us. ARV: $400.

URL Contest: CANON

Mississippi Review Prize 2008

Type: Writing Contest

Eligibility: Open to all writers in English except current or former students or employees of The University of Southern Mississippi.

Timing and entry fees: April 1, 2008 - October 1, 2008. Fee is $15 per entry.

How to Enter the Contest:
Winners and finalists will comprise next Winter's print issue of the national literary magazine "Mississippi Review".Fiction entries should be 1000-5000 words, poetry entries should be three poems totaling 10 pages or less. There is no limit on the number of entries you may submit.
SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO
Mississippi Review Prize 2008
118 College Drive #5144,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406-0001

Prizes:
Awarding $1,000 each in fiction and poetry.

URL Contest: MississippiReview.com