Prizes
- $500 gift card
for the Grand Prize winner to the local electronics store of your choice
(choose from The Apple Store, Circuit City, Radio Shack, CompUSA, etc.)
- $250 card to each
school winner (one in each of our five public high
schools)
- $100 card to each
school runner-up (one in each of our five public
high schools)
- Prizes will be awarded at a ceremony to be held in
January 2008.
Eligibility information follows the
contest instructions; as do
some links to
help you get started.
Contest Instructions
- Create a
persuasive message giving young adults (18-29) a reason to
register and vote.
- The submission deadline is November
15, 2007.
- Submissions must be made as print, image, audio
or video files attached to an e-mail message sent to
contest07@lwvbae.org. The body
of the e-mail message must contain at least your name (first
and last), school, grade, home address, and a phone number and e-mail
address at which you
can be reached with questions, or can be notified should you be named a
winner.
- You may create and submit a file that
contains a flyer, poster, print ad, essay or editorial (500 words
maximum), a poem, an editorial cartoon; an audio or video ad, a song,
rap or commentary (audio and video submissions must run no longer than
60 seconds); or an html file (web page) that displays without error in Microsoft's
Internet Explorer web browser.
- You may submit only one entry.
- Submissions will be judged on their relevance to
the contest topic (giving young people a compelling reason to register
and vote), and message clarity, originality, polish
(presentation quality) and overall impact.
- By making a submission, you grant
the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville a
non-exclusive right to use that submission, without charge or royalty, in
future registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns.
- E-mail addresses and other personal information
(phone numbers, street addresses, etc.) will be kept by the League in
the strictest confidence. We will use them only in connection with this
contest, and will not share them with any other groups or individuals.
Neither will we use them to solicit you in any way in the future.
Eligibility
You are eligible to submit an entry to the League's
Why Vote?
contest if you are currently enrolled in the 9th, 10th, 11th or 12th grade in
one of the five public high schools in Albany, Berkeley or Emeryville.
The deadline for submissions is November 15, 2007. All submissions must be
made via e-mail attachment.
Getting
Started
If you already
know what you want to do, and how you want to do it, feel free to skip this
section and start right in. But if you're looking for some inspiration as well
as suggestions about how to create your message, read on.
Clicking on
the
italicized links
that follow will open new
browser windows that display other sites.
- List reasons that might convince a young person
to decide to
register and vote
- Track down more reasons from others, then add ideas of your own
- Pick the reason you think is most
important, one with which you want to work
- Pick a medium in which to express the idea on
which you've settled
- Look at what others have done, not
to make copies, but to find inspiration
- Pick a medium in which you feel
comfortable, and with which you believe you can make your
clearest and strongest argument
- Craft your message
- Create a rough draft of the file you plan
to submit
- Smooth, polish and refine your draft
- Take a break (several hours or several
days), then return to your draft when you can work on it in a
fresh light
- Repeat the previous two steps until you
are satisfied that you've done your best possible work
- Submit your file no
later than November 15, 2007
Click here to open a standalone
window that contains a PDF copy of the contest flyer. When you have
finished viewing/printing the flyer, close its window.
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