Special Olympics World Winter Games Online Contest 2009

Type: Video Contest and Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open only to legal residents of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada excluding Quebec who are 13 years of age or older as of date of Entry. Professional videographers, photographers and writers, or anyone who earns at least 20% of their income by providing these services are not eligible to enter this Contest.

Deadline: 01 January 2009.

How to Enter the Contest:

During the Promotion Period, individuals may enter the contest online by visiting Contest Website, and following the onscreen instructions to submit a video or an essay with an optional photo. Entrants must upload an original video (maximum of 180 seconds or 3 minutes) or submit an original essay (maximum 500 words) with optional photo that reflects the spirit of an athlete and post the video or essay into one of five galleries: strength, determination, community, inspiration and empowerment. Individuals may submit up to fiveoriginal entries into the Contest, one per gallery. Multiple submissions of the same entry will not be accepted.

Prizes:

Grand Prize - A trip for two to the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games in Idaho along with a Canon camcorder or similar, an HP Printer Package, a World Winter Games embossed leather journal, a World Winter Games baseball hat and World Winter Games assorted branded promotional items.

URL Contest: Special Olympics World Winter Games 2009

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

Engineering Energy for the Future Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to individual girls and boys. This year there are three age categories:
Ages 8-11 - 3rd grade to 5th grade
Ages 12-14 - 6th grade to 8th grade
Ages 15-18 - 9th grade to 12th grade

Deadline: March 1, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
Energy fuels our cars, heats our homes, runs our computers and keeps the lights on. We use energy in almost everything we do, but if we aren’t careful there won’t be enough. Engineers have their work cut out for them. The world is counting on them to chart a course to a safe and clean energy future. They will need to come up with useful ways to save energy as well as ways to produce more of it. How can engineers work together to make the world work for the changing needs of people everywhere without damaging the environment? What should they be focusing on, and how will energy shape the future for engineering? Think about how much energy influences your life every day as you prepare your essay to answer the questions above.
Write an essay of no more than 750 words describing how you believe engineers will provide energy for the future. Entries may be submitted as an Email attachment to webcontest@nae.edu.

Prizes:
First-place winners will also receive a check for $500. Second-place entries will be awarded $250. Third-place entries will be awarded $100.

URL Contest: Engineer Girl

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

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

“Lincoln at 200: still relevant?” Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: For students who are FULL TIME students in an AMERICAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY during the Spring 2008 semester. You do not have to be an American citizen, but you do need to be attending an AMERICAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY during the eligibility period.

Submission deadline: July 31, 2008

How to Enter the Contest:
The topic for 2008 - “Lincoln at 200: still relevant?”. February 12, 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. What relevance, if any, does Lincoln's life and accomplishments have to the challenges faced by today's generation? Entries must contain a minimum of 1,500 and a maximum of 5,000 words. Applicants must include the name of their college or university with their entire and all contact information (regular and email address) must be put on the essay proper. The essay can be sent via email or regular mail to the address below.

125 W. Vine St.
Redlands, CA 92373

phone: (909) 798-7632
e-mail: archives@akspl.org

Prizes:
1st Prize $1000
2nd Prize $500
3rd Prize $250

URL Contest: www.thelincolnforum.org

Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest 2008

Type: Essay Contest

Eligibility: Open to persons worldwide, except for current faculty, staff, interns, and students of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, members of The Nonproliferation Review editorial board, and anyone involved in reviewing or judging submissions.

Submission deadline: March 31, 2008.

How to Enter the Contest:
E-mail your entry to essaycontest[at]miis.edu. A valid entry consists of two parts: (1) a completed official cover sheet [Word DOC] indicating the name(s) of the author(s), address, telephone number(s), e-mail address(es), indication of status as a student at the time of entry (yes or no, undergraduate or graduate), date of birth, title of the submission, and a one paragraph biography of the author(s) (the cover sheet is the only place where this information should appear); and (2), the submitted essay.

Submission guidelines: Entries should not exceed 10,000 words (including endnotes), or approximately 40 double-spaced pages. All entries must be the original, unpublished work of the author(s) and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. All entries must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document and must conform to The Nonproliferation Review's style guidelines. Potential entrants are strongly encouraged to review recently published articles in The Nonproliferation Review to become familiar with our style and format, as well as recent scholarship in this area. To preserve anonymity, self-referential endnotes and excessive citation of one's own work are discouraged. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be considered.

Prizes:
Grand Prize: $10 000;
Outstanding Student Essay Prize: $1 000

URL Contest: James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies