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
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
KaiserEDU.org invites to submit an original essay
The George S. & Stella M. Knight Essay Contest 2008
Type: Essay Contest
Eligibility: Open to all students who are
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
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
Sunday, February 3, 2008
OL's Photo/Adventure Contests 2008
Type: Photo Contest
Eligibility: Open to amateur photographers who are legal residents of the 50
Deadline: March 15, 2008
How to Enter the Contest:
One winner will be chosen in each of the following categories:
1. Hero Shot (Hunting)
2. Hero Shot (Fishing)
3. Live Game
4. Nature/Scenic
5. Humor
By Mail
1. Send us your best photograph from the field and the category you are entering.
2. Please be sure to include your Name, Address and Phone Number in your submission.
Submit to the following address:
Outdoor Life, Outdoor Photo Contest 2008
2 Park Ave.,
OR
By E-Mail
1. Name the category you are entering and attach your photograph
(as a jpeg with at least 266 dpi in an email)
2. Be sure to include your Name, Address and Phone Number in your submission.
Submit to the following E-Mail address:
OLphotos@bonniercop.com
Prizes: One grand prize winner will receive $500.
URL Contest: OutdoorLife
