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Youth Contests
- 2008 Smokey Bear & Woodsy Owl Garden Club Poster Contest
- NGC Youth Activities-Poetry Contest
- 2008-2009 Theme--"Nature's Song"
The time has arrived to explore the different types of poetry that our youth can use to express their creative ideas. This year's theme for the poetry contest is "Nature's Song". Use your imagination and join the winners to see your poetry in print!
Eligibility:
Kindergarten through Ninth Grade
Special Education: Kindergarten through Ninth Grade
Subject Title:
"Nature's Song"
Contest Rules:
- All entries must be typed and titled
- Include name, address, age, and school grade of the participant on the back of the entry
- Sponsoring garden club must also be identified
- All entries become the property of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
- Poems don't have to rhyme
- Poems may be traditional verse, acrostics, bland verse, cinquains, diamond poems or Haiku
Scale of Points:
- Title: 10 points
- Content: 40 points
- Creativity: 30 points
- Style: 20 points
- 100 total
Deadlines:
- Entries to the GCFP State Youth Chairmen--December 1, 2008
- State winning entries to CAR Youth Chairmen--January 1, 2009
- Regional winners to NGC Youth Chairman--February 1, 2009
GCFP Entries, send to:
Grades Kindergarten through 6th Grade (both divisions):
- Alice Lackner-Gray
- GCFP Youth Gardening Chairman K-6
- 150 N 12th St.
- Indiana, PA 15701-1638
Grades 7th through 9th (both divisions):
- Ruth Berry
- GCFP Youth Gardening Chairman 7-12
- 340 College Lodge Rd
- Indiana, PA 15701-4009
National Award:
First Place in each grade in each division will receive a Certificate of Commendation.
Johnna-Claire Metz, NGC Youth Activities Chairman, 1249 East 28th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11210-4626, 718-377-7263
Note: Only regional winners are considered in the judging for national winners. Contest winners will not be allowed to win in two consecutive years. The winning entries will be compiled into a booklet, which will be made available to the winners.
- NGC Youth Activities-High School Essay Contest
- 2008-2009 Theme--"Sustain the Earth--Foster Our Environment"
Eligibility:
Open to all High School students, 9th through 12th grade.
Must be sponsored by: single garden club, group of member clubs, councils or districts; or a State Garden Club.
Subject:
2008-2009-"Sustian the Earth--Foster Our Environment" theme puts emphasis on taking care of our planet--preservation, caretaker, steward, custodian.
Contest Rules:
Length of Essay--between 500-600 words. All words are to be counted. Students should write the essay so it is suitable to be published in the NGC publication, The National Gardener. The entry will be penalized if the essay doesn't conform to the required length.
All entries become the property of National Garden Clubs, Inc.
Scale of Points:
- Content-65
- Knowledge of Subject--25
- Practicality of Proposal--10
- Originality--15
- Subject Matter Well Organized--15
- Composition-25
- Vocabulary--15
- Conformance to Length--10
- Manuscript-10
- Wallet-size photograph, Name, Address, Phone Number, School Attending, Grade, List of Activities, and Sponsoring Club--5
- Neatness-Legibility (A plastic folder keeps the manuscript neat)--5
National Award:
A $1,000 National Garden Club Scholarship will be awarded to the National Winner. If the Winner is an underclassman, the $1,000 Scholarship will be held by NGC, Inc. without accrued interest, until such time that the student enters college. At that time, the money will be forwarded to the Financial Aid Officer of the college the student will enter. The second place winner will receive $100.00.
Deadlines:
- Entries to the GCFP State Youth Chairmen--December 1, 2008
- State winning entries to CAR Youth Chairmen--January 1, 2009
- Regional winners to NGC Youth Chairman--February 1, 2009
GCFP Entries, send to:
- Ruth Berry
- GCFP Youth Gardening Chairman 7-12
- 340 College Lodge Rd
- Indiana, PA 15701-4009
Elva H. Davidson, NGC Essay Contest Chairman, 31136 Cheltenham Rd, Lewes, DE 19958, 302-645-7677
Note: Only regional winners are considered in the judging for national winners.
GCFP Youth Gardening Chairmen phone numbers can be found in the 2007 Directory Issue of The Keystone Gardener.
- CAR Sponsored Youth Activity
- 2008 PENNY PINES POSTER CONTEST
RULES:
The Penny Pines Program is an important reforesting effort and we need your help to spread the word throughout the Central Atlantic Region. We all recognize Smokey the Bear and his slogan “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires” and Woodsy Owl and his “Lend a Hand – Care for the Land” slogan.
Who is Penny Pines? What should she look like and what should her slogan be? Posters should feature the artist’s original idea of both of these things so that, one day soon, Penny Pines will be as well known and effective as Smokey and Woodsy.
A good poster is bold and simple in design so its message is easily understood. Posters are to be the work of individual student artists using materials like crayons, markers, colored pencils, poster paints, watercolors, etc. Bright colors usually work best to get everyone’s attention.
Three-dimensional, computer scanned, or electronically generated posters will NOT be accepted.
Posters should measure 11 inches by 17 inches and will be judged 20% each for originality, design, slogan, artwork and overall effectiveness.
The artist’s name, address, grade and school should be carefully printed on the back of the poster along with the name of the sponsoring person or Garden Club.
The Penny Pines Poster Contest is open to students in all seven C.A.R. States in two categories - 1st through 3rd graders and 4th through 6th graders. In each category, we will award prizes of $25.00 for First Place, $15.00 for Second Place, $10.00 for Third Place plus Honorable Mention Ribbons in each category.
Winners will be announced at C.A.R. 2008 Conference. Our hope is that other Regions in National Garden Clubs, Inc. will follow our lead and sponsor this same contest throughout their States. If that happens, our C.A.R. winners could then go on to compete for National recognition of their efforts to promote this very important reforestation/conservation program.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
PENNY PINE SAYS, “THANKS FOR HELPING ME
- BECOME SOMEONE SPECIAL!”
Send GCFP Entries to:
Youth Gardening Chairman K-6th Grade
- Alice Lackner-Gray
- 150 N 12th St
- Indiana, PA 15701
- 724-840-9333
Regional Chairman:
- Linda Masland, C.A.R. Penny Pines Chairman
- 2108 Carlo Court
- Fallston, Maryland, 21047-1828
- (410) 879-7763